Private contracting in Iraq

erasmus · Post by **erasmus** » 25 Jul 2007, 23:56

i want to be a contractor

work 1/4 of each year and retire at 30 O_O

-_-

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 26 Jul 2007, 13:37

Retire at 30 with PTSS.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 26 Jul 2007, 18:18

If you don't have PTSS, you haven't lived.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 26 Jul 2007, 20:23

Isn't it Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? Cause I don't see where that second S comes in.

No, wait, Syndrome. Sorry, yeah.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 27 Jul 2007, 07:52

Tim Blokdijk wrote:Retire at 30 with PTSS.

I would be glad to retire at 30 with a so-called syndrome created to justify the high per-hour rates of psychiatrists.

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 27 Jul 2007, 13:25

Go for it.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 27 Jul 2007, 17:23

Psychologists, not psychiatrists. Psychologists conduct talk therapy and general counseling, psychiatrists are doctorates of medicine and write prescriptions.

Felix raised a point of note, however; syndromes are as subjective as everything else, and carry more stigma in general than their constituent symptoms.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 27 Jul 2007, 17:31

It's like being afraid of the dark, it's all in your head.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 27 Jul 2007, 18:35

Whether or no, what can you do?
The thoughts honestly become you.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 27 Jul 2007, 22:04

Snipawolf wrote:It's like being afraid of the dark, it's all in your head.

PTSS? It may be all in your head, but it's quite serious...

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 27 Jul 2007, 22:35

I wasn't saying it wasn't serious, all phobias and mental disorders originate from ones original thoughts...

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 27 Jul 2007, 22:40

Not necessarily. Mental disorders often originate from chemical imbalances or physical trauma which the mind is subjected to for some reason or another, rather than an actualized thought.

Post by **Tim Blokdijk** » 27 Jul 2007, 23:04

Snipawolf wrote:It's like being afraid of the dark, it's all in your head.

You must be talking from you personal experience I guess.
I mean the traumatic effects of war are quite known around the world.
The Afghani and Iraqi war will lead to a new wave of people suffering from PTSS just like all the other wars.

A woman (a translator with the Dutch forces) told (on tv) about her service in Afghanistan and how she would get a gun pointed at her head by a Afghan guard while he checked her ID *each time she would go to work in the morning*.
(she was not suffering from ptss btw)

Made me wonder if I could manage to keep thinking rational if that would be the start of my day for months on end.
And sure the guy is doing his job to keep things safe and it's just a ID check and it's a normal procedure and all the others go trough it to and he is on my side and he should know how to prevent accidental firing and bla. bla. it's just like being afraid of the dark.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 28 Jul 2007, 00:19

Soldiers somehow manage to cope with a lot of stress and I'm shocked they don't all come back with PTSS.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 28 Jul 2007, 00:24

I can easily shoot and kill someone and feel no remorse. No pity.

That is me. Apathetic. I don't care.

Some say it's a gift, and others say it's a curse.. I don't care either way..

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 28 Jul 2007, 01:11

That isn't apathy, that is indicative of sociopathy - sadly now lumped into antisocial personality disorder.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 28 Jul 2007, 01:19

Well, I have both then...

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 28 Jul 2007, 01:20

Snipawolf wrote:I can easily shoot and kill someone and feel no remorse. No pity.

Pics or it can't happen.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 28 Jul 2007, 01:24

That made me lol outloud...

I can.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 28 Jul 2007, 08:40

neddiedrow wrote:Felix raised a point of note, however; syndromes are as subjective as everything else, and carry more stigma in general than their constituent symptoms.

My displeasure is with the tendency to label everything as a mental disorder.

If you wake up in the middle of a dark and stormy night in a cold sweat, it is a disorder.

If you wake up in the middle of a hot summer night in a sticky hot sweat, it is a disorder.

If you wake up in the middle of a perfectly normal night in a perfectly normal condition and go back to sleep, it is a disorder.

If you don't trust people, it is a disorder... if you trust people, it is a disorder... if you have a healthy balance between trust and distrust (say it with me) it is a disorder...

If you think the whole disorder thing is getting out of hand... it is a disorder.

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