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11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 2508

Hi Hugs..Thanks for the Laugh..

You may like the pleats but you never seem to turn tail and run, sounds more like a Marine to me..Sure glad you're here..

My late husband was a altar boy and later a Marine..The best man I ever knew..And always faithful..Semper Fi they say..

Thanks

Red...

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 4027

I was a cub scout, and left the boy scouts, since the guys seemed too rough. I became an altar boy since I liked the uniform, and pleats.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1665

Hi Shari: I used to date a naval officer - nuclear power submarines - too. We were just beginning to talk about marriage but sadly he developed cancer and died at a very young age.

Sunny

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1071

Okay,

I'll throw in my military wife background as well :) I've been married twice. My first husband was a Nuclear Power Submarine Officer that I met from the Naval Academy in Annapolis. We traveled up and down the East Coast from Massachusetts to Florida. One year, we moved every 3 months, so I didn't even bother unpacking boxes, just the ones with clothes and pots and pans. I find it funny, that I was able to handle relocating and not knowing anyone for such a long period of time. And, I became extremely independent and even bought a car and home on my own while he was under the ocean somewhere. It's amusing that a hippie married a nuke Officer. Unfortunately, he had a woman in every port, so some stereotypes are true. My second husband has retired as an Army Sergeant, but still works as a civilian. He used to work for the first President Bush and for President Clinton at the White House. His job is in satellite telecommunication. When I met him, he was out of the military, so we didn't have to move around.

Shari

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1665

Hi: Just to say my Dad was a military man and we travelled a lot. Often moved so I was used to that but three schools in one year was the most difficult in that time period.

Sunny

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 177

Thank you both!

I'll reply to you both separately so I don't get confused ;)

Shari, it's okay I keep forgetting which threads I've posted in and I come back later and so many people have replied I lose track! A dragon sounds much more scary than a green monster haha :) Yeah my psychologist taught me that, she noticed that when my anxiety was extremely bad, my eyes would glaze over and I'd go 'into my head' and then as I started to get better this would happen less often and my eyes were bright again so she knew it was me talking and not my monster. That's okay, I'm glad you figured out what you needed to :) Haha I'm sure people think that about me!
I get that a lot too, I really don't like explaining agoraphobia. People can sort of understand the panic, but most don't get the agoraphobia.

Sunny that sounds terrible, to lose two brothers at once. I know how you feel though, with the moving. At one stage we had 4 different houses in three years. They were all in Toowoomba and I didn't have to change schools or anything. But I was always afraid to get settled. Home is meant to be solid ground, but moving so often makes you realise that nothing is permanent, and that's hard to accept.

Wow, after that sad moment, I'm going to have to do something fun too!

Kaitie.

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1665

Happy belated birthday Kaitie.

You two reminded me of school assemblies! How would you like to be 13 yrs. old going to highschool wearing black and purple. These were the only colours allowed me as our family was in mourning for two brothers who accidently drowned. Anyway, here I was a skinny kid, not that particularly attractive to start with, and being a junior already looked down upon - haha. That was a hard year for me as I went to three different high schools in that year because we moved. First move because my parents couldn't bear to be in the house where my brothers' bedroom was, etc. Second move because the place we were moving to wasn't ready and we had to take an apt. until it was. This meant the school closest to this apt. Finally settled into the last house and finished the year there, but that only lasted for two years as we moved again.

I sure hated assemblies because I felt so different from everyone else. They all seemed happy and at home. I just wanted to get the day over with and go home which didn't feel like home. You just hang on 'til it gets better. Thinking back on it - I don't think about it very much - I wouldn't want any child to go through that but as the saying goes - there are always worse things, and there are always better things. I survived it and hopefully it made me stronger, in any case, it made me, me.

Going to do something to cheer myself up! yikes, don't like thinking about this time of my life. Why did I write about it? Spontaneity I think.

Sunny

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1071

Happy Belated Birthday Kaitie!!!

I don't know how I've missed all of these posts! I'm so sorry :( I like that you call your anxiety, the little green monster. I call mine a dragon. I have to remind myself to chain the dragon sometimes :) What you said is epic! The more we distance ourselves from the anxiety, the more control our 'true self' has. That's fantastic! Sorry I disappeared a bit, around the holidays. I was doing a bit of soul searching an became temporarily introspective, but it helped me figure things out. I still checked the posts everyday, I guess I just didn't have much to say. That's a shocker, you should write that down on your calendar, the moment in time where I didn't have much to say - ha ha :) I know what you mean. That it's nice to talk to people who understand and you don't have to explain it. People who don't have it, really don't know what you're talking about and I hate trying to explain it and I always get "the look" like I have three heads. That's why I like it here too. You're accepted for who you are :) P.S. I remember those school assemblies - egads!

Shari

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 177

Shari,

I was always the same with our full school assembly, I dreaded every Wednesday when all our 1500 students would sit in the auditorium and lecture theatre for the assembly. It would always make me claustrophobic and we couldn't choose our seats so most of the time I was somewhere in the middle. It was awful, I'm so glad school is over! Haha

At the moment my anxiety has been winning the majority of the time, but I can still remember how happy I was when I could push it aside. I call it my little green monster who always lurks in the shadows, and definitely the more we distance ourselves from the anxiety, the more control our 'true self' has :) it took me years to understand that concept.

Thank you Shari, I think this is my third relapse, I guess you could call it that. Aww, you're one of my favorites too! At one stage you hadn't posted for a while and I was like where's Shari? Haha. I've learned heaps from you too, as much as people try to understand panic disorder, unless you have actually gone through it, it's extremely difficult. It's nice to just talk about it on here without having to necessarily explain it.

Kaitie.

And guess what! I'm 18 now, my birthday was on the 7th of January :D

11 years ago 0 +0 / -0 1071

Thanks Kaitie!

I identify with the escape. I used to do that in movie theaters. I would have to sit on the end of the row, close to the back, and didn't like it when they shut the doors. I'm glad to hear that there are times you don't listen to your anxiety as much and are able to not think about it and just go - that's really fantastic!!! The more you do this, over time, the struggling will lessen and the "not thinking about it" will become dominant. I've found that to be true. You're well on your way. I used to get frustrated at times, but I realized that the time frame didn't matter, it would all work out in the end and it did. You're awesome Kaitie; you're one of my favorite people here :) I've learned a lot from you and you always have great advice; you're inspirational. Good on you, too :)

Shari

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