Stopping or cutting off emotions. Dissociation/cutting off emotions is like freezing frogs….as soon as you thaw them they are hopping all over just the same. Why do I know this? I used dissociation to obliterate anger and other negative emotions. Sadly it did the same thing to love and happiness…only the emotions didn’t go away,…
Lonely in a crowd. Seeing everyone else chat and interact and feeling like I live in a glass bubble. The feeling of being different, out of step, longing to feel included…how can I see anything good in feeling so isolated and alone? I started my own group that included others. I did it, we had…
One of the more common topics of discussion on several PTSD/CPTSD web pages and posts is about the Inner Critic. That little voice in your head that keep pointing out and dwelling on every mistake ever made by that person. Someone on Facebook posted this image about criticism… This is what I do…
Hi all, today I planned out this entire post and worked out the wording and now, blank, nothing, nada, zip. Heavy sigh. I sometimes have these brilliant ideas for posts but when it is time to write them my brain deleted it. Yup. No recovery. I used to fret about this until I realized that…
First of the year we are bombarded with meme’s to set goals, make resolutions, embrace the change and get moving. For many years I hung my head in shame and gave up on January 2, because I was going to break those resolutions anyway, may as well get it over with as quickly as possible. …
We now have 365 mornings to decide how we will tackle each day. I am so ready for a new year.
I dropped into holiday survival mode and stopped my course of study with Blueknot….several of the areas cover details of how long and how much therapy is needed for CPTSD/PTSD. Mine was 10 years and 3 counselors. I am still a work in progress. I’m fortunate that my first counselor focused on teaching me the…
Yup I did. I ripped up my Christmas To-Do list this week. I was stressing because my DH (Darling Husband) is looking at some serious medical issues and I was overwhelmed at all I had to do so I ripped up the To-Do list. Now it is a Maybe do one or two things for…
Our lives had a new twist added that is extremely unpleasant. I decided to pare down and cut out many things on my to do list. I decided that some things will just be missed this year. I am focusing on gifts for grandkids. Already shipped the ones out of state. I learned years ago…
I took off school today for probably one of the strangest reasons so I didn’t explain too much. I thought I was doing fairly well with the news of my mother dying. Then yesterday, I received a sympathy card. To say I didn’t handle it well would be a gross understatement. I knew the sender…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 