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…
Debates rage about PTSD and mental illness. Some say it is not an illness. Some say that they don’t want to be labeled mentally ill. Illness: a condition of being unhealthy in your body or mind : a specific condition that prevents your body or mind from working normally : a sickness or disease…
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…
Evan commented yesterday that taking control of my life is not accurate. He phrased it nicer. Life happens. My participation when I have victim thinking is a bit like driftwood tossed into a raging river. Healthier thinking, I am a person on that driftwood with my hands paddling like mad to get to where I…
I’m fairly sure the last one is not a word, but it needs to be. Thriving was not part of my vocabulary. I understood taking orders, I knew how to survive; it is like I knew how to drive a tank but didn’t know how to walk down a city street. I do believe some…
Scott posted it under the name Irregardless http://scott-williams.ca/2015/02/02/irregardless/ It goes along with what I wrote on my other blog http://weareone-ruth.blogspot.com/2015/02/take-lid-off-jar.html PTSD is difficult. Most pages spend thousands of words sharing the difficulties, the symptoms, the discouragement. To get to Thriving with PTSD you need ‘In-Spite-of’. Irregardless of the scars we choose to make our own…
PTSD - Accepting, Coping, Thriving 