Self evaluation time

This is the time of the year I review my progress.  I made it through Christmas time.  I love the season but tend to plan more than I could ever accomplish.  I lost presents that I bought this summer and had to buy things for my granddaughters. They’ll get the other presents when I find…

Posttraumatic Growth

Hey I found a new term for thriving.  Posttraumatic Growth is a term coined by “psychologists Richard G. Tedeschi and Lawrence G. Calhoun at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the mid-nineties.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_growth  I came across it in this article “How to Suffer Successfully: Post-Traumatic Growth and Nietzschean Resilience” http://wakeup-world.com/2015/12/07/how-to-suffer-successfully-post-traumatic-growth-and-nietzschean-resilience/ Most people do…

Sharing my thoughts

I share my experience with PTSD with dissociation at a severe level because I want to let others know they are not alone.  I have no military experience.  My combat zone was called home and neighborhood.  The area I lived was considered a “good” neighborhood with plenty of doctors, lawyers and teachers. The worse abuser…

Thriving

Each year, I talk to the students studying early childhood education.  Part of the required curriculum is learning about abuse.  I discuss openly that I experienced every form of abuse, physical, emotional, mental, sexual, spiritual, social, and verbal.  Some of these abuses overlap each other.  Many times verbal abuse is also emotional abuse.  Sexual abuse…

Brownies and Crocheting

What do brownies and crocheting have to do with each other?   Cooking and crocheting were both interest I had before PTSD took over my life. (PTSD was part of my life for years but didn’t gain domination until in my 30’s) I kept it at bay for a long time being focused on other stuff…

Posters and Memes

When I was a teenager, I collected posters.  I had them all over my room. “Life is a Journey, Not a destination.” You can mourn because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” Lincoln Plus many more. Now, I collect Memes.  They litter my desktop because my Mac can take a…

How bad do you want it?

This is becoming a recurring theme in my own struggles and in the articles I read.  I’m not sure if more articles are being written or I am paying attention to them more.  Or perhaps it is a back lash from some of the comments I read on Facebook that sound like PTSD is the…

Stars to steer by

PTSD Break The Silence People with PTSD can create and maintain good relationships by: Building a personal support network to help cope with PTSD while working on family and friend relationships Sharing feelings honestly and openly, with respect and compassion Building skills at problem solving and connecting with others Including ways to play, be creative,…