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…
One of the symptoms of PTSD is physical, emotional, mental, or time based blackouts. Physical blackouts you find yourself on the floor wondering what the hell just happened. You may have injured yourself on the way down. They can come on slowly or as fast as turning off a light switch. Trigger induced or just…
I avoided writing about Mother’s day on this blog. I spent several posts on my other blog working out how to get through the day. Mother’s day is a known trigger for me. It has more land mines than a war zone mine field. I know it is a problem for me. I prepared for…
I work at a high school. The end of the school year is in 2 weeks. At our school, we encourage learning through doing. Projects, huge projects, our students put on a fashion show last night. The Saturday before about 400 students showed up at school dressed in Interview-for-a-job type clothes giving presentations on the…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 