Run, run as fast as you can, You can’t catch me I’m the gingerbread man. I sometimes feel that I am racing from one activity after another with barely a breath in between. This week my body shut down on Thursday…I felt deep gratitude that I made it all the way home before my body…
I didn’t believe I had baby blues. I never cry. I found a book on depression. I read the chapter on ‘baby blues,’ I had every symptom except crying. When I talked to my first counselor, I told him I could count on one hand how many times I had cried in many years. (I…
Links to explore: http://www.ptsd.org.uk/poems/ https://www.myptsd.com/c/threads/a-poem-for-ptsd.219/ Please share a link to gohose the From my book We Are One. I’m bleeding I go to my parents – I’m bleeding. Oh honey I’m sorry to hear that, here’s a little band aid. But I’m bleeding a lot. You are just like everybody else. Everyone bleeds? Yes,…
Poets speak from their heart painting a mental image that touches their readers heart. Shakespeare……a bunch of cliches strung together…..is it cliche if he said if first…or is he just the most famous one to say it? http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/ Famous Poets http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/ Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/ Why have links to poetry on a PTSD web page? PTSD…
Continuing with poems “As you ramble through Life, Brother, Whatever be your goal. Keep your eye upon the doughnut, And not upon the hole.” I learned the poem above from Dr. Banks over 30 years ago…..the one below I just found when I was looking for the other one. Their Points of View. ‘Twixt optimist…
This months is celebrating pocket poems. Put a poem in your pocket and share it with someone else. http://www.poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day PDF of poems suggested by the web site. http://www.poets.org/sites/default/files/PoemInYrPocketDay_2015_FINAL.pdf Poetry was always very important to me. Poems spoke to my heart when my head wasn’t listening. I think it is a lovely idea to have a…
PTSD does not allow for much resting. Hyper-vigilance, insomnia, mind in overdrive are just a few of the emotional/physical states that make it hard to rest. Making myself wake up early do more, work harder, trying to ‘prove’ I’m good enough is not the mindset of a person that gets rest. I am learning that…
Evan commented yesterday that taking control of my life is not accurate. He phrased it nicer. Life happens. My participation when I have victim thinking is a bit like driftwood tossed into a raging river. Healthier thinking, I am a person on that driftwood with my hands paddling like mad to get to where I…
One of my counselors goals was to convince me that I had control over my own life. I was raised with the ‘you must’, ‘I have to’, ‘I can’t’ and other statements indicating that I was turning my life over to someone else to regulate my behavior. One time when I stated that “I had…
Authenticity 1. The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine. dictionary.search.yahoo.com Ooo boy was this ever a toughy for me. I first had to understand that my whole life was built on lies, half truths, and fear. My counselor held the mirror while I looked at my past. I didn’t remember any of…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 