Learn about each other…. 1. Are you named after someone? Yes. My grandmother. 2. When is the last time you cried? I don’t keep track any more. Crying can be for happy reasons for me. I think yesterday when I watched a video about helping each other. 3. Do you like your handwriting? Sometimes.…
Some people online are crying, “Does PTSD ever end?” They feel frustrated, hurt, and isolated. I don’t know if it ever ends. I’ve had it since I was 5 years old, I will turn 59 next month. I control it much better after years of counseling. I may have many good days in a row. …
I put off this question because it is staring me in the face right now….. “Couldn’t we at least…?” This is the question to ask that will enable you to get unstuck, as they say. It’s what enables you to get past disagreement to some consensus, as in couldn’t we at least agree that we…
There are questions and then there are QUESTIONS. I believe in asking questions. This article went on to identify and clarify several things that I believe about questions. The first type of question James Ryan identifies is the question that is really an insult or a put down. https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/16/05/good-questions Some questions are used to intimidate…
I became unreasonably dismayed that my online art therapy teacher asked me to make a family tree as one of the projects. I pushed pause and walked away. (Nice advantage of an online class.) I took all day to hash through why I was so unreasonably upset over a simple assignment. Well, with my family…
A challenge in “Princess Bride” rather than a fight to the death it would be a fight to the pain. The description stayed vivid in my mind. The implication is death is preferred to pain and pain must be avoided at all cost. Through my life experience I learned that isn’t always true. When I…
In today’s fast paced World, people treat you like a criminal if you have an unproductive day. Epitaphs such as lazy, slug, bum, and other cruel name calling come your way. Here’s the deal, I would love to be productive but my get up and go, got up and went without me. I remember as…
My sister, Judy, and I walk almost every Saturday morning. I call our time Sister Therapy. We talk about her current work in progress books, events, challenges, past, present, you name it we discuss it. Sometimes we agree and sometimes we don’t, that’s ok. We learned a long time ago we can disagree without being…
Life changing experiences should change your life. I am seeing a disturbing trend among PTSD support groups on Facebook. There is a cry of ‘I don’t want this to change me.’ Frankly, I think it is very disturbing if you are not affected by a life changing experience. September of 2001 I was diagnosed with…
This one is needed after the last one. https://ptsd-acceptingcopingthriving.com/2016/09/03/still-in-it/ Should you decide to use the word no and stop taking personally all the words they spew out, they will call in the flying monkeys. Friends, family, acquaintances get dragged in to take their side. They will twist every event into some horrible thing you have done. …
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