Coping Skills & Ideas for Spouses
Living with and loving a Veteran who is mentally or physically injured can be a HUGE challenge. If you have come up with ways to help yourself or your Veteran cope, please share them in this thread....
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My hubby has PTSD and Mild TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) as well as injuries to his shoulder, hip, knee, and back. Here are the ideas/skills I've come up with so far #1 PTSD means my hubby HATES...
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Well, sounds like you're coping better than I am. I'm not so organized. We tried a PDA and it didn't seem to help DH that much...we don't use it any more. He has some short-term memory loss also. Not...
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Hi I'm new at this so please bear with me.I want to know how you can cope with everything that goes on in their minds from the war if they don't want you know about it.How can you tell them that...
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He may be afraid to talk about it. Part of the problem is that it's not very acceptable in our society for a man to bear his soul like that, so to speak. And often the guys are told by the military...
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He also is probably practicing "efforts to avoid thoughts or feelings associated with the trauma" as they describe the symptom in the diagnostic criteria. You are assuming that he doesn't trust you,...
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OIFVetWife wrote: My hubby has PTSD and Mild TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) as well as injuries to his shoulder, hip, knee, and back. Here are the ideas/skills I've come up with so far #1 PTSD means my...
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Through the years of not knowing why I was being controlled, kept away from family & having friends, I found I became like him in many ways. Not to the same degree, but I found it's just easier...
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I'm having a really serious coping issue. As the spouse of a vet who has seizure disorders and short term memory loss along with other medical issues, I'm struggling to maintain my sanity. Besides the...
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I have absoutely no answers or suggestions. I just wanted you to know I cared!Nakiea
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I can't tell you how much strain on my heart released just from reading your post!! I have been married to my Marine for 19 yrs, I met him after his first 13 months in the Corp. There are so many...
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Navy wife, You sound like a super person and wife (notice how I separate the two:) ) Your post was so real and a lot like some of my life. It helps me to remember that I'm my own self and not just...
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I have nothing really to say, except that I admire you all for the way you are able to deal with the issues before you. We are lucky that our problems are all physical and not related to PTSD. For you...
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why is it so easy for us all to talk to each other about it,but having a proper grown up relationship conversation with your other half is just going round in circles talking about the things that are...
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My husband and I knew each other and were best friends in high school..fast forward 25 years and we reconnected on facebook after he had served in the army and been honorably discharged. We were...
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I can't believe I have survived 45 years with this man. I fell in love with a wonderful man who was happy, friendly outgoing, funloving and everything else you could want in a mate. When I met him in...
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It has been a long time since I posted a message. My husband has had his second bypass surgery, followed be a stroke. Then he was diagnosed with parkinsons. He also has short and long term memory...
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I've been dealing with the issues from my hub coming back from Iraq with several injuries and things that rattle around in his head he can't talk about. (For clarification, some of it he won't talk...
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Writer, You cannot allow this to keep going. He has to want to get help or at least agree to try. Vet centers counsel individuals and couples-- I recommend both. You also qualify for one on one...
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warzone54, thank you. If I mention to him that he needs to go back to the VA or anything, he yells and refuses to go. He doesn't like their psychiatrist so therefore, he says he's not going. But it is...
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