Hi, welcome
Thankyou for reaching out here. We are not a "chat group" as such, we are peer advisors with ongoing mental health issues that have the ability to balance that and help others with out lived experiences.
Nevertheless, indeed many of us likely have or are experiencing PTSD, burnout and can relate to what you have endured. Many of those possibly dont recognise that they have PTSD along with their other mental challenges. It could be, that we have had so many of these challenges that has led us to PTSD, either way we feel burnt out and at later stages in life we have to seek refuge to quieter places, less crowds, less of the human element in our lives especially those without the necessary empathy, so we can survive.
By all means if you think I or others here can help in any way through our advice the reply and keep this post going, use our library by using "search" which is vast.
I started out in the military, then prison service and so on.
THERE ISN'T ANY RANK (to military veterans)
Perhaps you want to dance in the rain?
When black clouds dance upon your brain
When no words are in any particular order
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Its ok to prop in the middle of the trees
Or sit on a park bench feel free to freeze
Its ok to go into a shell and go quiet
As long as your loved ones know you’re alright
And in the middle of the night if you chose
A spider to dance upon your nose
Under a bush In the corner of your land
It not matter if no one understands
To find your peace and rest your soul
To watch a mother and her foal
Or a plane that flies that you cant ignore
Even if it reminds you of the Asian war
Its ok, to find your heart and where its been
And all the horror and the events in between
Its ok mate you are not alone
Even with a ex serviceman that writes a simple poem
You’ll be ok mate, rest assured
Just let your loved ones know – to feel secure
That you will find peace to understand
Even under trees in the corner of your land.
Remember you are valued and you are true
You've done no wrong and we haven’t forgotten you
There isn’t any rank and there’s no particular order
Post traumatic stress disorder….
TonyWK
