Is PTSD just fear?
@Scubbie - voted "yes", because it's closer to my controversial take on modern PTSD (excluding WWI shell shock where you can see the crazy eyes, for example).
Basically, I suspect about 90% of PTSD boils down to a conflict between whatever is socially acceptable, and whatever a person did or suffered. Soldiers are filled with Christian ideals that say "don't kill", and yet they killed people. Some women are brought up to not be sluts (not as many as should be, I know. But still, they exist) ➡️
@YoMomz well my PTSD is from the FBI serving a warrant on my roommate for hate crimes in the 90’s having two Full auto MP’5s, and a 357 magnum and a shotgun pointed at me as they kicked in the door while I had two white German shepherds in my grasp. Wearing my boxers
@Scubbie - I feel like this was a prior poll... 🤔 I'm pretty sure I woulda said "See you in Valhalla, muthafuckas!!" ... and I would be dead now.
I'm sorry you got caught in that situation. 🥃🫗
@YoMomz I was 18 man in hindsight , maybe fear is powerful even the dogs knew it was a life or death situation there was 6 feds in the front porch on a rather steep hill maybe I could have been in Valhalla,but I am a Christian even though my roommates were odinist I guess I was the weak link
@Scubbie - Well real talk: There is no shame in fear. Only a madman or retard is truly without fear.
At 18, I was kinda both... 😅 But back to you: weak link? I dunno... It depends on a lot of things I wouldn't/couldn't know. But you're still here (as am I). And all we can do, on any given day, at any given moment, is our best.
If shame belongs with fear, then I'd say it's only true if one allows fear to prevent them from doing what needs done. And FWIW, that doesn't sound like what happened.
@Scubbie - I mean, did your friends expect you to get in a shootout with the feds? 'cause that's not friendly.
It sounds like a lot of poor decisions led up to that. And you know what? That's pretty normal. Life is a learning process. 💁🏻♂️ We start as babies, and if we're doing things right, we get better as we get older.
If you met an 18yr old today who was fucking up, what advice would you give? Probably wise words, I'd bet.
So look to the mirror, and give those wise words to the 18yo there.
@Scubbie - "...I wasn't fucking up"
Well, I'm not trying to be ass, so I'll just say this: it is impossible to learn from our mistakes, if we refuse to admit to our mistakes. 🫡
@YoMomz the feds rented the house across from us and we’re survelling us for 3 months we didn’t even know it I didn’t know my roommate was on the run,he did 3 yrs in a fed pen for from what I understand a bar fight with some queers there may have been a Molotov cocktail involved at a gay club,but the real reason was the guy was a extreme talent,artist musician influential to the narrative they didn’t want so the made it federal hate crime to get him,When I was 18 I wasn’t fucking up