welcome to the family, you will find other people some of whom have been
formally diagnosed and some of whom are self diagnosed...with or without a dr
certifying it...finding a or therapist to speak to is the hardest part i
think...it is important to keep trying until you find the one who makes you most
comfortable...and remember if you ever want to talk we are here

the 1st thing i will reccommend to you is the most important i can think of and
that is start a journal...it can be in a notebook or a word document or even a
private online blog...write about anything and everything that you do each day
even the silly little stuff...and especially write down anything that is
happening around the time of any PTSD related incidents like flashbacks or panic
attacks...it will help you find your triggers...once you have identified them
you can begin to individually conquer them...it could be anything a site a sound
a smell a color a place...it is important to identify them and the best way is
by writing it down...and petterns will emerge...you will begin to relize hey the
last 3 panic attacks i was in traffic behind a red car...and that would be your
trigger that you can then consciously next time you are behind a red car tell
yourself...it is ok i will be fine...even if you have to say it out loud...

i know it sounds silly but it does work!

ok so i have to run...i am sorry i cannot type much more but my house is under
renovations so i am sitting at a library on a horrible connection that keeps
locking me out of pages saying that page has been viewed too many times...like i
cannot get to the groups home page LOL luckily i had an old email where i needed
to approve a post that i could use that link to get into here

--- In emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com, "Jim" <ok4a56@...> wrote:
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> Hi Reggie,
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> I am from Central Ohio, lived in Ohio all my life.
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> From: emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of ClipedWingAngel
> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:47 PM
> To: emsfirepoliceptsd@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [EMS Fire Police PTSD] New Here
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> Hey Jim,
> Welcome to the family. This is a good place to come and feel safe with no
> judgements being made on your PTSD because we all have it.
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> Take a look around and see some of the older posts.
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> What part of the country are you in? We have people from all over the
> world.
> I live in Oklahoma now but lived most of my life in NY.
>
> Reggie
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> --- On Sun, 3/8/09, Jim Eggeman <ok4a56@wowway. <mailto:ok4a56%40wowway.com>
> com> wrote:
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> From: Jim Eggeman <ok4a56@wowway. <mailto:ok4a56%40wowway.com> com>
> Subject: [EMS Fire Police PTSD] New Here
> To: emsfirepoliceptsd@ <mailto:emsfirepoliceptsd%40yahoogroups.com>
> yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 5:01 PM
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> Hello ALL:
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> My name is Jim, and I have been in Public Safety for just over 20 years. I
> started out young, as I am now only 38. I have done FD, EMS as a
> Volunteer/Part
> Time, and have been a full time dispatcher for the last 20 years. It was not
> until I became my departments Training Coordinator, and doing research on a
> class on stress, that I seen that I had all the classic symptoms for PTSD. I
> have yet to be officially told I have PTSD, but my family Dr, who gave me
> some
> self tests thinks I have PTSD. Over the next few weeks I will be working
> with my
> insurance company to find the right person for me to start seeing.
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> I look forward to reading up on prior post in this group.
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> Thanks for letting me join.
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