One of the fascinating things I learned from one of the classes at school is that some of my responses to the world is not about PTSD/CPTSD at all. I am an introvert. I crave home alone time. I need time by myself to recharge my batteries. Sometimes my no peopling days is more about…
I get access to several computer blogs about education since I work at a high school. I follow and keep track of trends and information about PTSD/CPTSD. One of the subjects I am studying is resilience. This article by By Elena Aguilar tackles 4 myths that people believe about resilience of a teacher. Follow the…
Is the worse advice. They imply that you should live each day to the fullest because tomorrow you might die. Perhaps. Too many take this advice then they don’t die and have no plans for their own future. When I was 16 I didn’t believe I would live to see 18. I lived moment by…
Some themes, poems, stories and experiences stick with me, mulling them over and over. I take them out and reread them and consider their import….why do I keep thinking about some of these? One such story is The Potato, the egg and Hot chocolate (I like it better than coffee in the original story.) Story…
I saw myself as small, helpless, dominated, squashed….a worm with no back bone. If anyone called me a victor I would look at them very strangely. I did not see myself in a positive light. Yet, I believed I could change. I chose change, lots of change. As I changed, I started looking at different…
To me, this was the hardest to overcome but once I did, learning about my own power is a key element to my continued healing. As long as I believed I was helpless, I could not believe I could be responsible for my change. I needed to take back my power. I needed to believe…
People sometimes ask, “What is the difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD?” Fast explanation, “It is the same difference between a simple broken leg and a compound fracture.” Some people explain it has to do with age, duration, care taker vs stranger, and other external influences that complicate the person’s reaction. I follow Lilly Hope…
My counselor was a bit of a maverick. Every year I signed a paper saying that his counseling was not conventional and I was fully aware that he went off the beaten path of “accepted therapy.” I’m so glad he did. He approached my issues totally different than the other people I knew that visited…
This is a mini rant…..if you do not feel up to reading a rant today…tune in tomorrow when I hope to be in a better mood… Today I read a fellow PTSD group member accept where he was at right now. Cool great. Applause. Then in my estimation, he totally blew it by exclaiming this…
Many times I am told that I am over sensitive, imagining things, and at fault for feeling like bad things are happening. People, sometimes bad things are happening. Too often, the person telling you it is not bad is the one that is hurting you. I read several times on a group for CPTSD that…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 