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That's a drat shame. He was a helpful and informative poster and one of the most level-headed people here. So sorry for your loss. May he find some respite from pain that may not have been possible in life. I hope you have some people (family, friends, loved ones ) to talk to. I've found (and seen many others find)that taking a few minutes a day, if possible, to journal can be of some use while sorting through all the different emotions and changes of losing someone so close. The only thing I ever found truly helpful when losing loved ones is to just appreciate all that there was about them to appreciate. And to try to live in a way informed by that.
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Speaking as someone who grew up around a lot of PTSD (and been around it and dealt with it in adult life, too, pretty much continuously), PTSD is pretty much, by nature, unpredictable. Seemingly random, tiny things can really flare it up and get someone back into a defensive, them-against-the-world mindstate very quickly. It's depressing and scary because months of progress can be gone in half-a-second. Winding back down to a way of being that is more suited to living in society can take weeks or months in the best cases. As people live with it, it does smooth out much more for some, but others, for whatever reason, just don't. Many people have been through so much more than one brain should ever have to handle. Here in Oregon it has been a big, albeit pretty quiet local problem. Apparently in the last decade or so, Oregon LEOs have been trying to figure out what they can do to support all the vets they're running into with just wildly untreated PTSD. And it goes back a long ways, here, too. The logging and ranching industries have always had a lot of people who realized that they just couldn't be in society anymore. When I lived in Eastern Oregon, there were people who had made it clear they'd shoot anyone who came on their land. As long as they were left completely alone, they were usually not too much of a danger, but it was still a really sad situation all around. Thanks for taking the time and energy to share your story here. Probably everyone should learn about PTSD because probably everyone will learn about PTSD. And it is really worth it to learn how to be sensitive towards it and to the things that can cause it to flare up. Still, it is drat unpredictable and very hard to let go of or get away from.
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