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"Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there."
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"His abusemakes her an anvilwithout spark."

"The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture."

"The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped. Something inside had torn. There were seven places on my body where he had sunk his fangs into my skin and bitten. He'd dug his nails into my neck, and twisted my head to one side, and clawed my face. I hadn't made a noise. He had made all the noise for both of us. Had it hurt him?"

"But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you."

"When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key."

"I'd still thought that everything I thought about that night-the shame, the fear-would fade in time. But that hadn't happened. Instead, the things that I remembered, these little details, seemed to grow stronger, to the point where I could feel their weight in my chest. Nothing, however stuck with me more than the memory of stepping into that dark room and what I found there, and how the light then took that nightmare and made it real."

"It took me years to stop feeling the guilt she made sure I kept feeling about what happened with him. He is a sick person that molests children, but I felt so bad about it for so long. I couldn't talk to a single person about any of this. No one. And she made me feel so bad about it all that I felt I shouldn't talk about it, even if there was someone. I felt ashamed and thought I was an awful person. Sometimes I still do. My mother abandoned me in the worst ways possible."
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"I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!"

"There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or die trying."

"Many people say that psychiatrists just want to push drugs. Well I seriously have to say, without medication, I'd be locked up in a VA hospital somewhere."

"Bipolar is an illness not a hopeless destination it can be maintained with proper medication."

"I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them?"

"PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free."

"I've accepted the fact I have mental illness but when my imaginary friends start calling me crazy that's where I draw the line."

"We're all pieces of the same ever-changing puzzle;some connected for mere seconds, some connected for life,some connected through knowledge, some through belief,some connected through wisdom, some through Love, and some connected with no explanation at all. Yet, as spiritual beings having a human experience, we're all here for the sensations this reality or illusion has to offer. The best anyone can hope for is the right to be able to Live, Learn, Love then Leave. After that, reap the benefits of their own chosen existence in the hereafter by virtue of simply believing in what they believe. As for here, it took me a while but this progression helped me with my life: "I like myself. I Love myself. I am myself."
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