How one sees anxiety

Sometimes it helps to see another person’s view of anxiety.  It may not be your view.  You may experience it differently, however sometimes it is a relief to know that some of your perspectives are shared by someone else.   Love What Matters “To the man whose wife or partner has anxiety,You might have heard…

PTSD on Facebook

I encountered several PTSD pages on Facebook.  This is one of them: Some notes to add, it takes only 10% increase in oxygen for hyperventilation to kick in.  Things like dizziness, tingling in the fingers, passing out to name a few.  If you don’t have a paper bag breathing into your cupped hands can create…

9 myths

I believe there are a lot more than 9 myths about PTSD.  If anything, it is a good start on listing them. The hardest thing for me was I had PTSD for 40 years not knowing what it was called.  I had symptoms.  I saw one doctor after another.  No answers.  Many medical tests.  Still…

Feelings

Songs are written – wars are fought – over a temporary thing called feelings.  Every body has them right?  Yes and no.  Every child is born with the capacity to feel.  Life experiences teach people to turn them off sometimes.  Other people never learn how not to be controlled by them.  One of the symptoms…