I put in the link and it automatically embedded itself on to my page. I believe this is one of the clearest short answer to the question What is Complex PTSD, this segement does not go into how to manage it but does clarify how it is defined by insurance companies and other professionals. …
Not sure how to start this post. I looked up my original wording and the connotation is totally different from what I meant. I’ll try starting at the beginning. Caution – deep difficult subject. My mother raised me in a fear based living system. Everything I did was geared to avoid being hit or berated. …
Reading other blogs I am reminded of some of the things that I need to do or have done. Be Inspired suggest to Get Yourself Out Some people with PTSD groan at this point and say, “I can’t walk outside my front door.” I spent 3 years basically bed ridden… so I found adventures in…
Trauma happens in life. Full stop. But not everyone gets PTSD. Even fewer do what I did which was to create an elaborate survival technique using dissociation to divide up my life in smaller pieces. Life got a lot more confusing when I married and moved away from home, stopped going to school and started…
I get access to several computer blogs about education since I work at a high school. I follow and keep track of trends and information about PTSD/CPTSD. One of the subjects I am studying is resilience. This article by By Elena Aguilar tackles 4 myths that people believe about resilience of a teacher. Follow the…
I saw myself as small, helpless, dominated, squashed….a worm with no back bone. If anyone called me a victor I would look at them very strangely. I did not see myself in a positive light. Yet, I believed I could change. I chose change, lots of change. As I changed, I started looking at different…
I was asked a question I am struggling with how to write the answer, “What would you like therapists to know?” The first counselor I worked with was so extraordinary I had a hard time saying anything. He understood me in ways that I didn’t understand about myself. He led me to answers, allowing me…
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat which road she should take: “Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? The Cheshire Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to. Alice: I don’t much care where. The Cheshire Cat: Then it doesn’t much matter which way…
I am writing several posts about acceptance…accepting myself, my diagnosis, my challenges. Along the way I noticed in my reading about acceptance that some people interpret acceptance as staying the way they are. I don’t believe this. I accept where I am but that doesn’t mean I plan to stay that way. I believe strongly…
My counselor told me early on that his goal for me was to not just survive but to thrive. Rah Rah Great….The next week I came back and asked, “What is thriving?” At first he seemed to think I was jerking his chain then he realized I didn’t know what he meant, for real. He…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 