PTSD & Substance Abuse: Overview & Treatment

[mrbigbrob1]

ANYONE GOT SOME SERIOUS ANSWERS FOR ME ALL OTHERS STAY THE FUC@##$ OUT OF THIS TOPIOC PEOPLE THAT WHAT TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS REACH ME AT MY E-MAIL,GODDAM VA AINT GOT NO ANSWERS FOR ME,DOCTORS AINT GOT NO ANSWERS,......ALL IT IS IS THE MILITARY IM X-MILITARY AND I CANT EVEN GE T HELP,I WAS DISCHARGED IN 1981(PEACETIME) AFTER 18 MONTHS OF SUPERIOR SOLDIERY AS A 11C10/RECON BUT WAS REMENDED TO A A.D.A.D. PROGRAM AND FOR BEING AWOL MY DISCHARGE IS A CHAPTER10 AND VA SAY TO ME WE CANT HELP YOU!

[mrbigbrob1]

I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND ANY INFO ON PTSD AND THE PRISON SYSTEM,JUVENILE SYSTEM,THE CONSEQUANCES OF BEING TAKIN FROM YOUR FAMILY AT THE AGE OF 14 YEARS OLD PUT IN JUVENILE HALL IN SAN LEANDRO,CA. FOR 4 YEQRS,GOING TO AND FROM BOYS HOMES AND INSTITUTIONS,HAVING TO SURVIVE AS A JUVENILE WITHOUT BEING BEATIN OR KILLED, PEER PRESSURE IN SCHOOL BEING CALLED NAMES,PEOPLE LAUGHING AT YOU THEN GOING TO PRISON WHERE YOU SEE DEATH EVERYDAY,PEOPLE TRY TO KILL YOU YOU BECOME AN ANIMAL,WE ARE THE OITHERS

[ajmisfit]

you can be an atheist and work a 12 step program. your higher power can be the group of people in the aa or na meeting. it doesnt have to be a godlike being.

[Dejoblue]

How does an atheist go about utilizing a 12 step program? Not one that has lost faith but one that has an academic understanding that there is no god?

[renumeratedfrog]

Being an atheist doesn't have to prevent one from being spiritual. Reason can only get you so far in this life.

[motonegros]

@Dejoblue

GOD = good orderly direction, worked for me.