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What does this mean?

I thought a long time before I came back and shared this:

I was a Medic in the Service. My specialty was Trauma, so I often got the best/worst cases. I no longer know how to decide that?

For five years after I got home, I'd wake me up, screaming. I no longer do that number. I don't remember my dreams anymore, and the only person I wake up is her. But, I still scream in the night.

I woke up the other night and looked around my bedroom at all the dead ones laying alone out there in the cold dark night.

I thought: "I really need to cover them up", and I turned over and went back to sleep.

I woke up in the morning and thought about the dream. "Survivor's Guilt". I said to myself. I nodded and went off to work.

The dream has not been back.

blueraven6
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I was a civilian medic. I handled cases on a day to day basis in Montreal. Nothing like a battle field. You remember faces of cases which reached out and touched you.

It seems to me; you have either come to terms between yourself and what you were apart of; or you have healed inside.

What you went through; was life changing; and only those who were there with you; and experienced what you went through; - can truly know what you feel.

Time makes all things easier; perhaps not better - BUT easier.
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:19PM
Think of your mind like an ocean. The bad thoughts are always sunk as low as we can sink them so we don't have to deal with them. The bad thing is, they always float back to the top where they come back into thought so we have to deal with them. It's just your mind wanting to cleanse itself of this ordeal. How is that going to be accomplished in your case? I have no idea, but you have to deal with it to put it behind you. Therapy maybe?

Meditate on good thoughts until your mind becomes as still as a sea of glass. Calm and gentle yet strong and deep. When those thoughts come to mind, allow them to take their course no matter how scary the thoughts may feel. When you can overcome those scary feelings you'll build up strength and they won't have as much as an impact as they did before. Keep doing this unitl you overcome your fears.
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:56PM
Your subconscience mind is still trying to process the trauma you were exposed to during the war. It caused physical chemical changes in your brain functtioning. The condition is called post traumatic stress disorder. You are not alone . It is treatable.
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 5:40PM
IT is only a bad memory!( SO Sorry for your memory)

As a Trauma Person, You know that you H A V E to talk

this over with a professional!....WE can't imagine what you

have seen, but we thank you!
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 5:42AM
if the dream aint bin back well , thats good.
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 11:15AM
PTSD. Check into counselling, hun. They can help.
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Posted Aug 17th, 2009 at 2:33PM
you may have a semi psychic ability - that of taking in the pain of those you treat - this may relieve their pain - but you need to work on ways to let it go - screaming does help. . . but there are better ways - let it go.
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Posted Aug 18th, 2009 at 9:45PM
it means you are now allowing yourself to close that chapter in your life hold your head up high you have been through alot allow your inner self to close this chapter and you will not scream anymore in your sleep
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