I pondered on one of the oddities of living a life filled with fear. My counselor called it living a fear based life. What stunned him was my reaction when we were discussing death. As our discussion continued he was puzzled by some of my responses. He finally stated, “You are not afraid of dying.” …
Hardest thing for me to accept about myself is my brain lies to me. What I believe is the truth isn’t always true. Another blogger shared her experience with her brain lying to her. Her experience of contemplating suicide may be triggering for some people. However, if suicide is starting to look reasonable, please, seek…
Every so often I come across an awesome picture I want to share. I am very aware of copyright laws. I am thankful this person is willing to share. The picture is the link. http://boggletheowl.tumblr.com/post/41509206591/ive-been-getting-a-lot-of-these-lately-and-i
*********Trigger alert********** The contents of this post may be triggering or disturbing for some readers. Proceed with caution. Today at school I challenged students to face their why. They are writing about their career choices and I am asking them to tell why. Why do you want to do this career? What is your…
Suicide prevention is key to survival. Hard thing is that some people give little or no clue as to what they are thinking and feeling . I do maintain static pages on this blog. One of them is information I learned when taking ‘Suicide prevention and Teens’ class. Whenever I start to think my childhood…
I’ve put off writing this post for several days. I wrote it in my head many times. I am now up at 3 AM unable to sleep with the feeling, God won’t let me sleep until I get it done…FINE (Freaked out, Insecure, Neurotic, Emotional.) I continue to do research on coping with PTSD and…
I’m sharing different coping tools I added to my toolbox when fighting PTSD. I hope that they help someone else, too. Every once in awhile I need to be reminded as to why I do this. What motivates me to keep working on sharing these ideas? What is the driving force behind hours of reading…
Stung by Suicide, Bill Whittle discusses suicide in the military with concrete suggestions (about 10 minutes): http://conservativevideos.com/2014/08/stung-suicide-20-service-members-day-kill/#XHepV3kLTdWO8hZx.01 Robin Williams choice to end his life disturbed deep waters. Every horror movie seems to have a deep lake in which a ripple bodes ill for whoever is on the shore. Drum beating in the Mines of…
Sadly I add another name to the Story never ends page: Robin Williams http://variety.com/2014/film/news/robin-williams-found-dead-in-possible-suicide-1201280386/ I laughed with him in Mork & Mindy and watched him grow as an actor in both comedy and drama. He touched my heart and I laughed at his antics. As the Genni….. He made you look. Deep sadness….depression haunts…
In the comments: “I found a few people I could talk to about suicide, i.e., when I felt like I was at the end of my rope. They were level headed and accepted I was depressed. They didn’t overreact. They didn’t lecture me or shame me. They accepted my feelings while ensuring I felt valued.…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 