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mujicaptsd 12/05/2013

I posted a couple of days ago how I was getting tired and feeling more pain these days. Now I'm coming to the end of a good semester teaching at the college, thanks to the support here every day. I've even been able to have a few classes about PTSD itself and I've had a guest speaker in to speak to my class on it. It would have triggered me too much to do it without the support here.

But now I'm tired to the point that I'm going numb dissociating. PTSD does that with me long term. I'm coming home from work numb and with ringing in my ears, a PTSD symptom of mine, oddly enough.

I need our Christmas break because I'm tired to the point that I'm past feeling pain and I'm now dissociating, going numb like we do with PTSD. In 10 more days the semester will be over, and I'll get rest so I can feel again--feel pain and joy as Christmas comes.

Anybody else getting numb dissociating in the holiday season?

jewells1 12/05/2013

Yes and fighting it. I like you feel it from my classes. Though not at your level of participation, but at mine the very newness of it and all the holiday stuff as well as stupids Elvis coming on the radio right now.....all lead to me wanting to hibernate. Also that pinging ringing has increased. The HSM class most definitely the trigger factory, but also the one I am learning the most tools in. So suffering the PTSD pain of learning to deal with the pain of ptsd pain, etc..tec,,,ect...e....

somebody stop me!

mujicaptsd 12/05/2013

Aha! You have the ringing in your ears, too. It's noticeable at the end of the work day for me.

Some of it may be from memory concerning bombings, loud noises in combat (that time I was in a car that was bombed).

Things are going ok, but I pass tired to numb and the ringing starts. I feel a bit stunned like I did after a bombing even back when.

Thanks for letting me know what you feel and don't feel, too, Jewells.

jewells1 12/05/2013

So we can count down the 12 days to Christmas break, well elen for me. Dec 16th my last.

mujicaptsd 12/05/2013

Yes, Lilly. A good, good laugh will do me wonders. One of those laughs that's so hard that my milk squirts out through my nose.

Now there's an image that'll distract you from your ears ringing......

jewells1 12/05/2013

Yep it did!

mujicaptsd 12/06/2013

Hmm. It's the next evening, and they're ringing again. Must happen more than I'd admitted to myself. Glad I'm not the only one!

deleted_user 12/06/2013

oh my gosh. ringing in the ears is a ptsd symptom? mine started ringing about a month ago and the doctor couldn't find anything wrong. it goes away when i'm with people or having a good time it seems.
have you found anything that stops it?
it's really loud right now. :(

deleted_user 12/06/2013

it doesn't have to be ptsd symptom, I have ringing in the ears and in my head ringing and noise since I was kid
don't worry much about that if everything else is okay, im so used to it and I have it every day and it doesn't bother me at all, ringing and subtle noise comes and goes

you can have I think if you spend too much time in very noisy place, but that usually pass quickly

as for holidays I will be relieved when they are gone

mujicaptsd 12/07/2013

Thanks. I didn't think of it as a PTSD symptom until just recently, because I noticed it came in the evening when I was most tired. It may not be. It's not from recent loud noises, as I work at a college in an environment that's not noisy like an airport or a factory might be. Whatever it is, I'm just glad I'm not the only one.

mujicaptsd 12/07/2013

Yes, I think it's what I get instead of getting a migraine from stress. Hey, it's a lot less painful than a migraine. So to gear up for this coming last Tuesday I worked today but I'm taking the evening off tonight to watch a movie, and I'm going to watch a football game tomorrow (something I NEVER do).

Just as a distraction from the last week of school and all of the grading coming. It'll be stressful, but then there's some time off and ears won't be ringing then except for Christmas bells.

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