Counselors

I talk often about counseling, for a reason.  I had an amazing counselor that from the beginning of our work explained that his job was to work himself out of a job.  His goal was to teach me the skills I needed to live so I didn’t need a counselor to tell me what to…

Who do you remember?

Cowboys-4-Christ ~ Something to Ponder About…… Name the five wealthiest people in the world. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor or actress.…

Humility

What does humility have to do with PTSD? From Wikipedia I found this bit of information… The term “humility” comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the adjective humilis, which may be translated as “humble”, but also as “grounded”, “from the earth”, or “low”, since it derives in turns from humus (earth).…

Perspective

Facebook works like email used to, it brings me inspiration and encouragement everyday.  I cheer with family and friends that are making steps forward and mourn with those that are hurting.  I chose pages that lift me up and friends that share pages that lift them up.  Today is a poem that I first saw…

Cry Alone

PTSD symptoms vary.  One of the ones I didn’t show at first was crying.  Many survivors talk about the flood of tears that just kept coming.  At one point I didn’t think I had any depression because I didn’t cry.  I finally checked out a book from the library about depression and realized I had…

Anything good?

Can anything good come out of childhood trauma? I read several articles that all relate to each other in my head.  Hopefully I can share them with you in a way the makes sense. Resolving Post-traumatic Stress is a web page that is maintained by a therapist.  He explains in a fairly straight forward way…

The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday

I learned this from David Rutherford team Froglogic: http://www.teamfroglogic.com/ I decided to do a bit of a search to find out what others thought of this quote. The best answer Yahoo came up with was  “since you survived yesterday and yesterday is over with….that is the easy day.” https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=A0LEVvOCwaZV7EUAquYnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTE0dTNjYXM4BGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM2BHZ0aWQDRkZYVUkzNV8xBHNlYwNzcg–?qid=20100311192257AA2OCIz&p=the%20only%20easy%20day%20was%20yesterday This is the answer that resonated…

PTSD on Facebook

I encountered several PTSD pages on Facebook.  This is one of them: Some notes to add, it takes only 10% increase in oxygen for hyperventilation to kick in.  Things like dizziness, tingling in the fingers, passing out to name a few.  If you don’t have a paper bag breathing into your cupped hands can create…