I am always on the look out for healthy Mental wellness tips. My sister found this in a group and I felt it appropriate to share here because the author encouraged sharing. This is one of the helpers that Mr. Roger’s mother talks about. Taking the time to write out a list of tips and…
Others on Facebook are posting that they are feeling trapped with this “Stay at home” to avoid getting sick. I posted about changing wording. I call this time to regenerate and try to learn Spanish during my work hours. Tomorrow I find out if they have something else for me to do. My less supportive…
Change your life is not new. I posted about it before. What I am sharing today is a link for things specific to this pandemic experience. Mindset Shift During a Pandemic
Living is fear is not new to me. My counselor pointed out I lived a fear based life. My childhood revolved around jumping through ever changing hoops to avoid some punishment. Then there were the weirdness of some punishments I preferred. If I complained about eating a meal with bell pepper in it, I would…
I am watching a trend among those with Complex PTSD. They want to claim loud and clear that they coped with difficult things and do not have mental illness. They rage when they are ‘misdiagnosed’ and won’t listen, if you try to explain that insurance companies only pay for therapy if it is in the…
Early in my counseling my therapist bluntly told me I was an emotional moron. Wow thanks. But he followed this with the information that I can change this by learning the skills that I didn’t learning as a child. I totally did not comprehend how much I missed out on growing up. I didn’t grow…
I read criticism on one of the Facebook CPTSD pages that a recommended video personality for healing from CPTSD was not a trained psychologist or psychiatrist. Guess what most of them aren’t. My son and son-in-law both have psychology degrees, do you know how many hours of class was spent on trauma training? That’s right,…
Quick definition of emotional abuse: http://dayoneservices.org/what-is-emotional-abuse/ This one is the hardest to recognize for me and the slowest to heal because of the constant erosion of my self worth; I felt their assessment was me. Took many counseling sessions to start breaking through the abusive fog of self doubt, self condemnation, and believing their view…
Universities are starting to publish articles on PTSD, of course CPTSD is not mentioned because it is not yet an “official” diagnosis. Here’s the link to the article. https://www.uab.edu/news/youcanuse/item/10726-ptsd-is-not-just-for-veterans-it-s-a-trauma-disorder-that-affects-millions The part I get frustrated is the bending of the causes to fit their agenda: “We must see PTSD, and other trauma-related disorders, as mental health…
A new year, a new beginning, the same pain and the same challenges. I laughed when a teacher at church shared that he does not make New Year Resolutions because he likes to spread his failures out over the whole year. I hate new year resolutions because I hate the sound of them breaking on…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 