Soldiers with ptsd

deankent

Hello everyone, this is always slightly awkward as it involves donations and i understand we are all struggling in one way or another.

I am a veteran who has been kindly treated by a charity called Taling2minds, this charity has treated me and many others for PTSD. Post traumatic stress dissorder has ruined many of our lives and we have not been able to get the correct help from the MOD or NHS. Most have tried the governments own charity "combat Stress" but the form of treatment is very dated and does not agree with many of us as it requires us to talk through the trauma which many of us cannot do.

This year this wonderful charity Talking2minds kindly took me under there wing and helped me get a large degree of my life back, along with many others. Despite the charity haveing such a fantastic rate of success and appearing on this morning , sky news and many others NICE are not prepared to do business with talking2minds.

I really want this charity to expand and help more veterans and soldiers and i also want to donate anyway i can. I am therefor holding a charity event in rochester kent on the 21st and would kindly welcome any donations possible . If you would be willing to help us raise this money for Talking2minds please visit our facebook page, you can find us under Action for Armed Forces. On our facebook page you will find the link to the fundraising page on uk virgin giving.

I am unable to directly post the link as the forum will not allow me to.

Thank you
Dean

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I am unable to directly post the link as the forum will not allow me to.

Happy to help you out - http://www.talking2minds.co.uk/

Barneysmom

Hello Dean, have you got your own page to donate on, I don't know how to find it?

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Barneysmom wrote: »

Hello Dean, have you got your own page to donate on, I don't know how to find it?

I think this is it http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=HELLSTORMwarriors

Barneysmom

Thanks hun, I bunged a fiver in

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Good lad

deankent

Barneysmom wrote: »

Thanks hun, I bunged a fiver in

Thank you so much, thats so very kind of you both. Im so delighted, the work that talking2minds do is life changing for us, and with the kind support of wonderful people like yourself we can try to give something back. Thank you so so much xx

dean

deankent

I joined the army at the age of 16, i served as a member of the recce platoon in the infantry and later specialised as a COP soldier in NI. During my time served i experienced many things which have now 10 years on had a major inpact in my life my relationships and my work.
Never really having the ability to effectivley communicate and share my feelings and also not knowing the reasons behind my behaviour led to my career being cut short. To proud to ask for help and to embarresed to approach my peers.
First receiving help via the army and the NHS in 1998 the entire process became painful, humiliating and drove me into a deeper state of depression, the very thought of going through Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy again insensed me.
I recevied treatment for anxiety dissorders and depression from 2004 onwards but nothing made any kind of change i could warrent as succesfull. Even my brief encounter with the RBL and Combat stress was to familiar process to explore again.
In march 2011 in attended a change course ran by talking2minds, witha therapy which i had not been aware of, one which enabled me to make the changes myself after being given the tools, a relaxed friendly and non intrusive enviroment followed by briefs from great men and women who gave me thier time in return for nothing.
The treatment after 2 days enabled me to not only think for myself but also to be able recognise my reactions were normal.
Talking2minds have done for me in 2 days what no-one has managed in 14 years. Talking2minds have given me my life back, they have given me a second opportunity to be the proud man i once was, the change has not only affected me but my partner, my children and my parents. I feel proud of myself for making those first difficult steps but i would never look back.
Talking2minds not only consentrated on the trauma in my life but also help me set goals and empowered me to acheive them, i feel emotion i feel love but best of all i feel like me again i felt as though i had just been through my second passing out parade.
I could never thank Talking2minds and all of the practitioners involved for what they have done for me, nothing will ever be enough but then i know they will all tell me “i made the change myself” and for a change i can pat myself on the back!
I truly hope if you are reading this statement because you have heard of Talking2minds that you can forget any worries you may have , If you can find it in yourself to do anything please just contact Talking2minds and come on this journey with us.
Thank you to Bob, Martin, Andy and Andy W for your support and time.
Dean Lacey

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Well done Dean, and thanks for telling us of your experience. The most useful thing I was once told about PTSD is that it's a very normal reaction to a highly abnormal situation. Good to hear Talking2Minds is helping people get back on an even keel.

Barneysmom

I know Dean N.I was a terrible time, my hubby was there 5 times, he was there at the Omagh bomb, he was running the med centre at the time as a sergeant.
The smell of death lingers on a soldier for a long time, and being a soldier makes you ill either physically or mentally.
When my hubby came back from N.I after spending 6 months in a 6 foot room on his last tour, he couldn't sleep in the bedroom as it was too big, so slept on a small settee curled up for about a year.
The drink problems are horrendous. It takes years if ever to stop someone drinking just so they can blackout and sleep.

God bless you Dean and all our lads and lasses. xx

deankent

Barneysmom wrote: »

I know Dean N.I was a terrible time, my hubby was there 5 times, he was there at the Omagh bomb, he was running the med centre at the time as a sergeant.
The smell of death lingers on a soldier for a long time, and being a soldier makes you ill either physically or mentally.
When my hubby came back from N.I after spending 6 months in a 6 foot room on his last tour, he couldn't sleep in the bedroom as it was too big, so slept on a small settee curled up for about a year.
The drink problems are horrendous. It takes years if ever to stop someone drinking just so they can blackout and sleep.

God bless you Dean and all our lads and lasses. xx

Wow you have also been through it ! im so sorry to hear that xx how are things now? i was also in omagh ( linsenelly barracks) at that time, i know the lancashire regiment took over. I currently run Action for Armed Forces and we hear from around 30 people a month who are struggling, talking2minds bless them are kept very busy.