Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Support Group
Find support with others who have gone through a traumatic experience. Whether you have chronic or acute PTSD, we are here for you.
After 39 years of PTSD management being a teacher with flashbacks in front of classrooms of students, I'm 17 months away from retiring to a quieter life. I'm so happy to have made it that close and still be able to work, but it's getting harder with age, not easier.
I've got a good psychiatrist's support for this home stretch, but today I need your group support, too. This semester my community college teaching schedule involves my teaching one day a week, Wednesdays, from 9am through a night class to 9pm. I can't get that teaching schedule changed. I used to have energy to spare for doing it, but these days I don't. So it will really help if this afternoon before I go in to teach that night class from 6pm-9pm I know I had some support from my group here at DS PTSD. It means a lot just to get daily strength from knowing you're not alone.
Support very welcome, then.
Glad too that you got to friday and succeeded so well in all that you had to do incorporating good self care.
I hope the weekend is yielding some good rest for you after the week.
I used to get quite anxious when I was teaching and gave it up a few years ago but I did love doing it once classes started. My physical health is the thing that prompted me to give up most of my extra jobs.
I still do my full time job which is mostly research and grant applications for the irish suicide association and of course my main passion, as always (since I was 14yrs old or yunger) is my work as a writer which is what gets me up in the mornings.
I wish you well during the coming week. hugs
It seems to be global that the IT tail is wagging the dog in all workplaces these days. I love IT, it's what's brought us together here at Daily Strength.
But sometimes IT decisions impact what they're supposed to serve with unforeseen consequences. Here we had a lot of challenges when the Daily Strength website was reformatted about 3.5 years ago. We lost a lot of members in that transition. It's taken these years to come out the other side.
At my community college, too, a decision to make a major IT decision to change Learning Management Systems is impacting work for one and all. We're losing enrollment, too, which is increasing the stress about change. And that, of course, is where my own personal PTSD comes in.
Thanks for your support, irish. I really appreciate it. Fortunately, I've had this weekend off from my part time weekend job, so I've been able to rest. It was easier to let go and relax on Saturday yesterday knowing you had my back about this.