Talking to family

Awwww @MamiyaFan ,

Thank you for sharing. That sounds lovely that you have your therapy dog, Nellie, to keep you going. To me, she looks pretty cute... is it her behaviour/character that makes her less cute to you?

Thank you for sharing the miracles that Nellie does for you. It's really warmed my heart tonight.

I'm sorry I'm having problems with the people who are supposed to be supporting veterans
After watching incompetent managers cause the needless deaths of so many people because they refused to heed warnings and listen to advice when managers simply refuse to address problems that are causing death and suffering it really does trigger my PTSD quite badly

Especially when these people are professionals paid and employed to provide assistance to veterans but instead they cause more harm

Hi,

I’m ex Army, I struggle with this too and as a young person trying to heal and make new friends it makes it hard to connect, there always the what do you do for work question and I’m lucky enough I don’t work but I do have many appointments each week and to try and explain that and explain that it’s a result of my military service is really hard but I find it hard with military personnel too though as I didn’t deploy my PTSD comes from a few very traumatic events, i find myself stuck at times when trying to make new connections because of the unknown civilians have and unfortunately or fortunately unless they serve they never will fully know what we all go through, part of me is grateful for that because they won’t experience some of the things we have had to, that’s not to dismiss anything that they may go through.

Hi @Bella30 and welcome to the forums

Making friends is hard - and it seems to get harder when we get older.

I imagine it’s hard when you aren’t working to answer the question about what you do. How do you usually respond? I have a friend who has been unable to work for many years now due to mental health impacts of her work and she has the same thing. She does lots of free TAFE courses to fill her time and get out of the house and meet people, but she has said it’s hard when most people are working to connect.