I am continuing on with the Maladaptive schema and the things that my counselor taught me to counter act each one. There isn’t one of them that I can’t change when I understand that I have choices. I need to learn more and work hard but not impossible. http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2015/05/maladaptive-schemas.html Judy’s 7- 12 https://theprojectbyjudy.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/roots-to-blossom-post-2/ 7. VULNERABILITY…
One of the things that I found helpful was coloring. I like a blank page and lots of colored pencils. Sometimes I like lines and pictures to color. I am exploring several brands of colored pencils to see which kind I like best. The coloring books were at my first counselor’s office for the children…
Stated by my sister Judy https://theprojectbyjudy.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/i-think-i-need-to-learn-this/#comment-7509 Disassociation is another kettle of fish. I think it’s a matter of others and self. Detachment means you can’t connect to others. Disassociation means you struggle with connecting with yourself. Not connecting with yourself is a great description of what happens with time blackouts. Almost everyone has those experiences…
If you read yesterday’s post of Maladaptive Schema http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2015/05/maladaptive-schemas.html and find yourself saying, “That is so me.” By the end of the list, I felt very discouraged. I felt like some research wrinkled gnome just wrote out the worst part of my life for the whole world to see. But that is just it, I…
https://www.facebook.com/oldguard/videos/984024124955030/?fref=nf This link is in honor of all those we remember this weekend. Those that gave the ultimate sacrifice and fallen protecting the freedoms I enjoy. I also remember those that are alive and suffering from loss of limbs, loss of friends, loss of the kind that war brings. I pray for all soldiers everywhere…
I am posting a link to my other blog. I tried to repost it here and lost all the formatting. Crumbs. http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2015/05/maladaptive-schemas.html I will return to the time black out tomorrow.
Every student has felt this when they look at their test and their brain refuses to relinquish any information about what they read the night before. Some are short, like when yelling at your own child and you can’t remember their name. Other kind last much longer; childhood, what childhood, I don’t remember any childhood. …
Just for fun, Thanks Judy for sharing this one.
Another name for numbing, dissociation, loosing heart, deep depression, void…..similar to physical pain a person can only take so much emotional pain than the emotional heart shuts down. One of the distressful symptoms of PTSD is this emotional shutting down. The mind still works. I felt aware of other people I just felt so shutout…
The first time I blacked out that I know of was on a family trip through Nevada. Stopped at a gas station. I forgot my purse in the bathroom. I had my hand in the doorway when the door closed with my hand in the door. It smashed across my knuckles. I remember walking out…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 