Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Recently one of the PTSD pages on Facebook offered the opportunity to write 3 words to describe yourself. Please, keep in mind that I live with PTSD. I first showed symptoms at age 5. I battled depression, cancer, and PTSD. Someone stated that they didn’t think it was fair that they were still battling PTSD…
I am sharing an article I found about the DSM-5. Why is it important? Because this is the criteria that insurance companies and other institutions recognize as a way to diagnosis PTSD. The page indicates their willingness to share. If I misunderstood their web site, I’ll remove the article and leave only the link. My…
PTSD follows a life changing event. Not everyone that has a life changing event has PTSD but everyone with PTSD had a life changing event or series events. CPTSD, Complex PTSD, is difficult for some people because there is not one main event but many things that build up to create a dysfunctional way of…
I was in counseling for several years before my counselor reluctantly supplied a diagnosis. I wondered for a long time about this. My boss at the time, demanded I give an explanation as to why ‘medically,’ I blanked out sometimes. All my previous bosses accepted the statement that at times I stopped functioning and it…
One of the hardest things to cope with PTSD/CPTSD/PTS, whatever acronym you use, the darn thing is relentless. Working with counselors, journal writing, groups, reading books, psychology methods, medication, whatever you throw at it……it tears at the edges of your life. Ignore it for a time but it is always there. Day and night. No…
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,…
Here is yet another link to symptoms of PTSD: http://www.post-traumata.com/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-symptoms.html I believe there is benefit in reading what the range of symptoms can be. Too often people get hung up on a short list and miss recognizing other symptoms. Also you don’t have to have all of them to be diagnosed with PTSD. This is…
One of the struggles of PTSD or Complex PTSD is the tendency for the symptoms to take over everything. I find it difficult sometimes to remind myself that I am not PTSD. I have PTSD and the diagnosis gives me a term to look up to find out ways other people over come their struggles. …
The problem with violence and violent acts connected with PTSD is it is filled with murky gray area. PTSD is a reaction to violence in some form often with the threat of life involved for someone, usually the victim. The DSM 5 list things such as aggressive and reckless behavior. http://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/PTSD-overview/dsm5_criteria_ptsd.asp This seems to imply…
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…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 