My Son is struggling with PTSD Update page 7

That’s rough.

I don’t really have a solution, but feel your frustration. Seems like the VA is always playing defense.

I hope someone can steer you in the right direction.

I’ve struggled with PTSD for years. It’s really hard to talk about because you don’t WANT to talk about/ re-live it.

Sounds like your son is having night terrors and I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy.

During therapy I learned that the horrible nightmares I was having were actually called night terrors and, thankfully, there was a medication for it.
Prazosin was like a miracle drug for me and night terrors. Maybe this would help him?

There is a type of therapy for PTSD that’s called EMDR and it’s effective in my experience- the problem is finding a clinician that specializes in it.

I just said a prayer for your son. My heart goes out to him. It will never go away but it’s not as bad now as it was 23 years ago.

I hope you get other helpful responses here.

Most of all, let him know that as a father you are proud of him for serving our country. Let him know that you don't think he's a weak man. Tell him it takes strength to ask for help and to seek it and accept it. Tell him that you will be with him and do whatever it takes to help him and take care of his family while he goes through this. And tell him most of all that you are proud of him.

I worked with vets with ptsd when I was a therapeutic horse riding instructor. The vets got a lot out of connecting with the horses, whether they rode or just spent time around the horses (or even volunteered to help handicapped kids ride). I could share resources if you think this is something that may interest your son.

I hope that he can get the help that he needs in through whatever avenue that is

Prayers my friend, take the advice in this thread and escalate getting him any help he needs.

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VA says he doesnt Have PTSD,

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Then, he absolutely and most certainly has PTSD. As if the goddamn shrink at the VA, of all places, has any relative experience whatsoever other than what some manual tells them into what a patient with an actual stress disorder from nearly dying or having to kill somebody to stay alive experienced or is struggling with.

The fact that we bend over backwards for transvestites, blacks, Jews, fat asses, lazy retarded idiots who live off our taxes, a cock suckin coke addict in fricking Ukraine (90% of the fricks in the US can’t find Ukraine on a map), and the endless list of losers we subsidize while the honorable boys and girls who sign a contract at 17 to defend the incredibly worthless populace in this country are made to feel like second class citizens after honorably serving in our military is the most egregious criminal act imaginable given what’s become of this nation.

Micro dosing psilocybin mushrooms can help tremendously with ptsd and depression

Look up a guy named Shawn Ryan. He’s is a former seal. Him lots of his fellow seals us Psychedelics treatments for PTSD. I have a high school friend who was in SF who just started his treatment.

FYI. The VA won’t do anything to help but give him more drugs and make it worse.