Suicide prevention is key to survival. Hard thing is that some people give little or no clue as to what they are thinking and feeling . I do maintain static pages on this blog. One of them is information I learned when taking ‘Suicide prevention and Teens’ class. Whenever I start to think my childhood…
I get information from the VA even though I am not a veteran. They have one of the best sites on PTSD. This particular link is what family members can do to support a person with PTSD. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/public/family/helping-family-member.asp At the top of their list they suggest learning about PTSD. There is a bunch of information…
Warning warning Rant ahead……if you are triggered by ranting back away now. I’m Pissed for a reason and it has to do with People posting about someone else having PTSD or NOT. so you don’t have it. ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Yes, I read just this attitude on one of the posts on Facebook. I’ve…
I was interested that when I went on to Facebook this article was posted by PTSD Break the Silence. I like the specific suggestions on what to see, taste, smell, touch or listen to you. Using all the senses to help ground my mind in this moment goes along way to loosen the strangle hold…
I was grounded….often….it had advantages. My mother would be awake when I got home from school to make sure that I came straight home. If I wasn’t grounded, she would be mostly likely napping. Since I got home from school first, I would wake her up….I’d get spanked and then grounded and would start all…
The damning words of ‘Just get over it’ or ‘move on’ ring in my ears at time. It hurts. I tried over and over an over to ‘just get over it.’ Everything I tried was like kicking the walls of an old dry well, more dirt and crap fell on top of me. I sat…
Facebook is a place I liked several PTSD web pages plus others that advocate and share ways to heal. One of these is Emerging from broken. This is one of her posts Emerging From Broken I deserved to heal, but first I had to believe that I had something I needed to heal from. I…
Each year, a group places a flag for every death at the park from the September 11th terrorist attack. They call it the Healing Field. I go and take pictures. I cry over names of people I never knew. I grieve for the soldiers and the fireman and the officers and the children and all…
I read many things looking for answers on how to cope better with living. I found a link to an article about creating a worry box. It is a simple method not to hide or ignore worries but a way to acknowledge them and give them a place to go, your worry box. This could…
9/11 PTSD survivors need to plan how to cope during Painful Anniversaries. But I also believe that allowing ourselves to cry and grieve past hurts is healing. Acknowledging something happened was terrible reminds us that it really was not our imagination. 9/11 has a special significance for me because that is when I found out…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 