Telling my story was essential to turning my life around and healing the hurt in my soul. As I started to remember and piece together my past my counselor gave me several cautions. I will share with you what I learned. 1. The mind does not remember events in a nice, neat orderly chain of…
The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on Building the new ~ Socrates Sounds good, logical, the right thing to do. However, I learned on my journey that I first needed to survey the damage in my life. I needed to acknowledge my life was a…
I spent the afternoon dreading then talking to my counselor. The interesting thing about acceptance is it is easy to accept the good parts of my life. It is easy to accept the mundane parts of my life. But the crusty-nasty-wish-that-never-happned parts are a bit more of a challenge. My counselor challenged me to sit…
I’ve worked on improving myself for years. I tried and failed many ways of learning to live. I recognized very early in my teens that there was something odd about me but I was always the way I was, I didn’t know where to start. In counseling, I started a focused concentrated healing. I learned…
I am a big believer in education key to understanding mental illness. Unfortunately, Hollywood and other artists can add to the confusion more than they help. Tonight I turned off the TV in disgust because a favorite show was portraying the horrible awful bad murderous villian as a schizophrenic triggered by PTSD. Their script writer…
Counseling gave me a place to throw up all my thoughts and my counselor helped me pick through what needed to change to improve my life. I don’t remember what I was discussing but I remember vividly I said something I should do. I was stunned when he asked me, “Who shoulded on you?” A…
How do you know you arrived at recovery if another set back occurs? Who sets the standard of recovery? I recently started following Voices of Glass, BoldKevin writes this post. http://voicesofglass.wordpress.com/2014/09/08/30-day-mental-illness-awareness-challenge-day-thirty/ I caught the end of his 30 day mental illness awareness challenge. His posts are awesome. His words hit right at the heart of…
I was cruising through my WordPress suggested blogs and encountered this title: http://voicesofglass.wordpress.com/2014/09/05/mental-illnness-awareness-challenge-day-twenty-seven/ I love his quote: Suffering should never be turned into a competitive or comparative matter. For the minute we allow this to happen we disrespect the individual and have already set limitations on both our compassion and our support. Either for others…
Knocked down again and again and again. Discouraged and little and afraid. A child so small so hurt so tired. One of the counseling sessions I had years ago, we discussed my dissociation. My counselor explained that everyone does it to a degree. http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/dissociation-and-dissociative-disorders He went on to say that with children, psychologist don’t understand…
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…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 