Like clock work my anxiety rises and falls with certain seasons. I finally figured out that the anxiety starts mid October…..my mother’s birthday….until end of school when she would finally relax. My life still seems to revolve around my mother that explained to me she hated me in our last conversation. So how do I…
One of the symptoms that blurs the lines between PTSD and TBI, traumatic brain injury, is sensory overload. My daughter shares different articles about TBI since that is her challenge. I recognize the symptoms as something I experience with PTSD/CPTSD. Here is the link to the Mighty: https://themighty.com/2016/02/people-explain-what-sensory-overload-feels-like/ I first discovered my intense dislike of…
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Tonight I was done being an adult. I pushed myself through several tough things and I was done. Enter my sister. My Dad, who she cares for, experienced trouble with his land line phone. Batteries were needed, I had some. When she came over, I whined that I was done with being an adult but…
Yup, Navy Seals Team Never Quit came out of the Froglogic page and yes I follow them on Facebook. From them I learned about the importance of building a team. One of the difficult things about child abuse is the abuser will isolate the child and imply that they are alone. That no one will…
The title of the article caught my attention right away, which it is supposed to do. 15 Things Only People With ‘Smiling Depression’ Understand I remember talking to my first counselor and complaining that my doctor told me I was depressed and didn’t know it. He smiled and gently asked, “Do you ever feel angry…
One of the challenges I experienced was dissociation. I separated myself so completely from my emotions that I could not name what I felt at any given time. Much of the time I felt gray…..I spent months taking pictures of gray trying to find the one the exemplified how I felt. After hundreds and hundreds…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 