PTSD and Driving OTR...?

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  1. Numb

    Numb Crusty Curmudgeon

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    Combat air crew, '72.
    you play the hand you're dealt. that's all.
    self medicated in the early years.lol
    gonna retire next year. the roads are too crowded with idiots.
    been out here 30+ yrs.
     
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    That's where you are wrong, I didn't I was drafted, how about the people at the twin towers, Sandy Hook, columbine and many others Dave, did they sign up for it?
     
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  4. tman78

    tman78 Medium Load Member

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    Yes...good one. Having an animal in the Cab does help. Thanks...

    ??? Sounds like some tough guy line from a Hero Movie. I guess if you DFC, then you're not really human. I know MANY DRIVERS who can't deal with the STRESS of daytime driving and shifted their biological sleep rythems to avoid driving in daytime traffic to AVOID the FS.

    **We can't all be Commando's like Arnold,...some of us have to be medics or support team personnel. IF YOU'RE IN TO MOVIE star quotes I got a better one "A man's got to know his limitations...." (Clint Eastwood).

    You an Ice Road Driver??? (i hear they make big $$$)

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    I think Most Seasoned Comm.Drivers have PTSD from dealing with the stress of the job...especially those who fight city traffic everyday.



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  5. CrappieJunkie

    CrappieJunkie Wishin' I was fishin'

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    Suicide. Which is what my cousins husband chose. Stopped his car on a busy set of train tracks.
     
  6. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    You want mix in innocent civilian victims. Why go there?

    You got drafted. Oh well.

    Life isn't fair. Where does it say that life is or is supposed to be fair?

    Life isn't fair.

    It's just the way it is. I think people that are detached from reality can't except this.

    The tard posting on this thread, doesn't believe in The Bible. It's a foundation of philosophy for life.
    Everyone has to have a philosophy. Oh never considered that eh. It answers many of the why's, or at least sheds some light on them. It's the truest truth.

    One of the reasons I drive a truck as I've said for a long time, is because I can't deal with people anymore. Especially the ignorant ones, and the lost children today.

    Has anyone ever thrown someone out a window? I mean actually bodily thrown them out the window? It's very liberating, for a time.
    I had to really control myself not to throw this one tard nurse out the third story window last time Dad was in the hospital. It's fortunate we were not on the ground floor, or I she'd gone out. I had already called my brother to come and watch the old man, he's not real reliable though, and my cousin to bail me out.

    The head dispatcher was almost out at the last place I worked. The terminal manager was a Purple Heart OIF jarhead, and it was happening in front of his desk. Only because he said ( My last name ) please don't do this, did he not go out.

    Yea it's always around.

    I went to 12 schools in 8 different states then took my GED in 10th grade and went to NAU.
    I'm not even gonna begin to talk about the service.

    Am I tough guy? I'm just a guy that saves cats. The more beat up the better.

    Life isn't fair. Suck it up buttercup.

    I watched my Dad almost bleed out in my living room Thanksgiving evening. He's ok now, well mostly, stable still in the ICU, they got it figured out mostly, be there awhile longer, I hope, I mean hope he's able to come home, I'm guarded on it though.

    So you know, got a rug doctor and cleaned the living room yesterday. Cancelled a couple of my loads. Two I really can't do anything with, so I'll be on the road tonight.

    Life isn't fair. Deal with it.

    Oh, and the old man, now that guy was a for real tough guy. Now he's just a scared old man. And I gotta leave him for a few days, and it breaks my heart, but want you gonna do?

    Life isn't fair. Deal with. Do something useful and productive today for a change instead of crying in your beer or smoking dope.
     
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    Wait, life isn’t fair?
     
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    You don't need to be a philosophy major to know that life is not fair; its an impossible idea, it doesn't exist. Although I did study a lot of philosophy in college. I also studied a great deal of history, including ancient history. So don't assume just because I have a different opinion that I'm just some "tard" with no idea. I can discuss philosophy and history all day long.
     
  9. Dave_in_AZ

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    But your philosophy is that of self pity. Mine is get off your ### and deal with it.

    I remember what my parents did and sacrificed for me. I remember what others have done for me.

    That path of self pity, is the path of selfishness, not selflessness, and negated all that others have suffered on your behalf.

    So you put a gun in your mouth, and ended your pain ( maybe, who really knows what happens after that ), but you put all your pain by your act, squarely upon your family.
    Another selfish act.

    You have no F clue young man.
     
  10. TravR1

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    Where did you get that crazy idea from?
     
  11. Dave_in_AZ

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    Because you said you advocate treatment with drugs.

    What kind of drugs are you referring to exactly?

    The ones that alter the mind? The ones that alter the concept of reality?

    I'll bet you are someone that stands for nothing, that has fought for nothing, and would slice his mother's own throat to save his own ###.
     
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