Early on in my counseling, I explained that one of my medical doctors told me that I was depressed and didn’t know it. I felt like “DUH” I would know if I was depressed. My therapist looked fairly amused while I recounted this experience. (I learned to be very cautious if my counselor was amused…
I am very thankful that our school celebrates a pseudo holiday. No school on April fools day. It is a huge relief not to be at school because I am terrible at playing April fools jokes and I don’t handle them well either. Today I thought I was reading a real article because the source…
Last post was a list of things to quit. Part of changing to healthier ways of living is quitting old bad habits that no longer fit into our growing life style. However, not quitting healing is an important journey. I am thankful that my first counselor understood how much work there is in healing past…
I found a poster on Facebook and I am linking back to where it came from. https://www.facebook.com/messageoflife1808/ People pleasing is a survival technique also called fawning. This is another way of describing laying down and letting yourself be a doormat. No one appreciates a doormat, they just wipe their feet and move on. Change…
Reviewing my possible posts idea I came across yet another one talking about boundaries. The reason I keep coming back to boundaries is that many survivors with PTSD/CPTSD or just really odd coping skills show a definite lack of boundaries. I struggled with the concept. Listening to others talk about having boundaries and feeling so…
One of the problems with PTSD/CPTSD and long term illnesses of all kinds you start to blame everything on one problem. A couple of years ago I went to the doctor and he asked me a set of questions. I answered yes to everyone of them and I blamed it all on PTSD/CPTSD. Was I…
My sister and I walk and talk almost every Saturday. We end the walk with breakfast at P.Croissant. (Really yummy and soy free!) We share with each other our week. We live very different lives but we share history and understand each other. We chat about the things we write in posts, how events effect…
Many times I heard people tell me I needed to get out of my comfort zone. I was puzzled and confused, what comfort zone? I woke up stressed, I lived stress, and I went to sleep stressed to be greeted by nightmares, I didn’t believe there was such thing as a comfort zone. Then I…
Sadness and sorrow and grieving are no longer accepted in society. Feeling these emotions is now taboo. The assault on sadness is long time story. I remember at the earliest age the concept of a British stiff upper lip, enduring without showing any emotion for great losses. As a child I was punished for being…
My super power was dissociation and my counselor took my super power away. Well, it felt like that. Dissociation is the ability to disconnect, disengage and not be there for an experience. Lilly Hope Lucario https://themighty.com/2017/08/life-impacting-symptoms-of-complex-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/ Lilly agrees with me that dissociation is a coping tool. Works amazingly during times of extreme trauma. Using dissociation…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 