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Thank you so much. No you are not too late. I've just finished with WES (world education services) getting evaluated my transcripts from other colleges. Still have to do the pre-reqs... Still a long way... but I'll be there where I want / meant to be. Thanks a lot again and I wish you luck as well.

Oh, boy... I'm so sorry to hear about that you didn't get any support from your ex... and you were married not just like me girl/boyfriend... But especially after his deployments I hang on him so much as if I were a wife... I'm asking myself what are the values of some people who just give up the person like that??? How can they sleep afterward??? That's sad. How can the other party ever trust people again??? Sometimes human beings going through each other lives, breaking them and going away... I'm happy for you that you did get help and manage to get out of it. It also gives me some hope. I'm sorry if I with my asking about your experience made you fall back in the sad news and I hope it won't make you instabil. If it helps, know that you did help some other sole through sharing your experience. I wished I could make my boyfriend talk to you about it. Maybe hearing it from a man and someone he doesn't know would make him take that step earlier to get some help... Thanks a lot again. I wish you the best and stay in touch. Hugs,

Thanks a lot for the very detailed answer! Do you know maybe also what I need to become a nurse practitioner? Is it possible to become one after getting BSN and RN? Thanks again Lu

Thanks a lot for sharing your opinion and experience! It feels good to hear a supportive word. Look, I do agree and I want to tell my boyfriend all about how counseling helps me, but like you said "avoidance...of anything familiar with the trigger".. and right now I'm afraid that anyone and anything what might remind him that he has a mentally issue is already a trigger for him. That is the dilemma: to share the experience of my own treatment - yes, but it means to touch the subject he doesn't maybe even want to hear about. I don't even know if he would read my email or would just delete it as soon as he sees where it goes. But I did let him know that I'm here any time he needs me and that I'm giving him time and love him and want him doesn't matter what. Well, he didn't say any word back...but I assume he read it. I'm not sure he can really register now the words I write him... Maybe he doesn't believe that he could be loved and accepted so like he is, and it will only take time till he will see that it's the truth... I thought that going together 3 his deployments in Iraq, that it will be already a good sign for him that he can rely on me... Maybe I was wrong... I'll try to call a VA and ask them if they can come and see him. But I guess I'll get the answer again "He should come here and register first". I called VA hospital and asked if they can "track" guys a bit, like invite them / make them to show up like at least once a year for a check up or something where they can be estimated if they need some counselling. I was told no. I was told they might do something, but he is not in the system. My boyfriend wrote me 4 months ago that he went to a hospital and was told that he is suffering from PTSD and that they wanted to put him on medication. Well, as far as I know he doesn't take any medication now. When I asked him what he does to get some sleep - some medicine, he said, no, just having a drink... So no medication and due to his job with a lot of travel -I suppose no counselling is possible either.Right? Well, altogether makes me think either he lied to me about going to the hospital or he went but didn't let them register him so really and didn't take any medication. I don't know. I'm not giving up my hopes. But I'm so confused, not knowing what he thinks, what he does... so much confused by all that. You is a PTSD survivor... How did you get out of it? Did people bring you to a counselor? What made you feel / think - now I have to take that step and get help?? Thanks for your help. Hugs to you too, my friend. Lu

Faeriewand, Thanks. I got it!:) See, I'm not familiar with the American system of nursing education, but I'm now:)

Hello koolau, look, but if you don't receive a degree then you can't work and can't apply knowledge you gathered. Or was it for you just to get prepared for the next degree??? I want to go for a BSN or RN. I'm still lost in this system of degrees:banghead: If I want to do an accelerated program then the schools say it's equal to BSN. Once you have BSN you can sit for RN exam... So I don't get what is the difference to go for a BSN and be eligible to take RN-exam or to do RN-study right away... What is the difference between RN and LPN? As far as I was able to understand an LPN has less challenging tasks and gets less money; some other people say that both LPN and RN do the same but there is a difference in the paychecks. So what's the point in all this?? Very confusing...

WOW! THANKS A LOT! It does encourage so much! But also tells me the truth:)

Hi guys... I have to start the subject PTSD again. Does anyone have a brother / husband / boyfriend who came home after Iraq, maybe even retired and now is struggling through PTSD issues??? He is working now, doing a lot off business travel, but having sleepless nights. If he gets some sleep then has nightmares. He tries to knock himself down with a drink just to get some sleep... He doesn't talk to close people but pushes them away, he feels like running away and not doing counselling... And that is a list quite generalized. I was told by him it's too bad to tell me the details, to get me involved in that, that he needs to get the things under control and then he would be able to get back to everyone he cares about... But I don't know how he thinks to get things under control with alcohol and running away from them and I can't see how the person I love more than anything in this world is just rolling down. The whole thing is more complicated because we are in different countries right now... The contact is only via email , seldom and only if I don't touch the subject health etc... Has anyone any idea, maybe is there anyone out there with a degree / experience in Mental Health in general or worked /working with soldiers having a PTSD caused by military experiences; who could tell me what to do in such case??? I feel so helpless and it hurts to see how the person I care about can't get stable and harms himself. I'm seeing a psychotherapist by myself now... I got a PTSD as well... But my issue is nothing in comparison to his. Is there any trick/tactic to talk him in at least to start a counselling??? Please, any information is so much welcome!

Thanks! This helps a lot!

Thanks a lot. But I'm still working in Germany and trying to use the left time reasonable through getting done something already online. But that's a good tip I'll have to consider that too. Thanks.

Hello everyone, like some of you I'm on a change of my career. I have a BS in IT+Electrical Eng. Working for a few years. But want to go in the medical field and become a nurse so like I wanted when I was 16 y.o. but listened to my parents and went to study languages and technical things. It was interesting though but the mostly jobs in my field don't fill up my life and don't give me the feeling I do something really meaningful in my life. I'm 28 and want to start nursing school next year summer. I'm looking for any information from people who went through accelerated programs in a nursing school. Where did you get the prerequisites: I heard it's possible to do it even online with virtual labs, but I couldn't find anything in the Internet. I want to use this year to work and save some money and do my prerequisites: Microbiology, A&P I+II, Biochemistry. Has anyone heard about that anything? Besides I wanted to ask those who got the prerequisites: what kind off books would you recommend for the mentioned above classes? Did you hear anything about how easy is this to get enrolled to the Rutgers school or William Paterson school in NJ? Thanks for the help.