I look around and try to find other people that shared their experiences with PTSD. I believe that getting different perspectives will help a person to recognize their own challenges. I am very aware that my reaction and abuse pushes towards the extreme end of PTSD continuum. I worry that someone might decide not to…
Emerging From Broken “Physical symptoms such as muscle tension, back problems, stomach distress, constipation, diarrhea, headaches, obesity or maybe even hypertension can be caused by suppressing your emotions. Suppressed anger may also cause you to overreact to people and situations or to act inappropriately. Unexpressed anger can cause you to become irritable, irrational, and…
I would love to post this flow chart of symptoms but the recent review of the copyright information I am including the link to the chart. I believe the most helpful thing about this chart is it reduces the symptoms to groups. In my opinion, recognizing the main issue directs me to the coping methods…
I read this article and it lists 20 symptoms of unresolved trauma. My counselor recognized I was severely messed up, long before I knew I was severely messed up. After each line, I add my comments to Kathy Broady’s MSW. She writes more on each symptom on her blog. She also has videos and other…
I posted information before, I’ll probably post many more on Complex PTSD. I was not diagnosed with Complex-PTSD because it wasn’t identified yet. http://outofthefog.website/toolbox-1/2015/11/17/complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-c-ptsd My reaction is the main difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD is duration. PTSD usually with one or a cluster of traumatic experiences. Complex_PTSD refers to ongoing trauma that goes on…
I keep doing research and reading what others write about the challenges of PTSD. One of the more perplexing terms used by counselors is the explanation that I am ‘Stuck.’ Well great, what does it mean and how do I get unstuck? I imagined myself ‘stuck’ in quicksand, the more I struggled the more ‘stuck’…
In the battle of the mind, logic loses. I am struggling with one of the techniques in Karate. I know logically that it will work. I successfully done it several times. But every time I step up to the mat, I battle the terror again. In my mind, I’m lying on the ground unable to…
Anxiety is one of the leading and aggravating symptoms of PTSD. My daughter-in-law posted a link to an awesome article on anxiety. Not everyone with PTSD experiences anxiety. Not everyone with anxiety has PTSD. However, I believe this article can help people understand what she experiences with anxiety. She did label it with trigger warnings. …
This is a link that shows a graph of the PTSD Symptoms. http://www.tbbf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PTSDsymptomsflowchart.jpg I lived for 40 years with PTSD not knowing it was part of my life. I didn’t ‘connect-the-dots’ of diverse symptoms that when combined makes up PTSD. This chart classifies the array of symptoms into 3 main categories. Avoidance/numbing Intrusive memories Anxiety&…
“You worry about things that will never happen.” Sadly, this was a comment used to put me down. No one believed what happened on 9/11 when planes fell from the sky. Those that predicted such an extreme event before that day were ridiculed and told they were ridiculous that Americans would never be attacked on…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 
