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- I teach death and dying college classes to nurses from my years as a hospital chaplain. I was proud to do hospital chaplaincy work with trauma patients at a big city ER as an extension of my own PTSD recovery.I do, however, avoid certain settings,...
- For those who may not know, after years of doing my PTSD therapy, I became a hospital trauma ER chaplain from 2002-2010. My physical health failed me then, so since then I've taught death and dying classes for nursing students at a community...
- If my participation here on DS PTSD is light this week, it's because I got some flu but Tuesday after returning from Mexico on Monday. Thought it might be a bug I got in Mexico, but it's going around my community college. I hosted the visit of...
- Holy cow! On my vacation it seems that my karma is to meet and chat with more folks with PTSD like me. On the way down it happened during my layover in the Mexico City airport. I posted about it earlier this week and you gave me lots of...
- This isn't a crisis, but it is a request for insight into a phenomenon that seems to have unique characteristics in online peer support like ours. In the last three months I've had at least four different long term members suddenly declare that they...
- I wrote this by pm to a DS PTSD friend here and decided to share with everybody.I arrived in San Cristobal last night, and what fun it is! The counter clerks recognized me and remembered me from my January trip at my hotel and so did the...
- I'll be in and out of airports Sat March 11 and Sun March 12 as I return for Spring Break to the place in Mexico where I spent Winter Break. I'll probably be able to be connected to DS PTSD this Break like I was last Break, but I wanted to leave...
- I am in over my head supporting a student of mine right now, so I'm reaching out to you for my own support. I just got an email from a former non-traditional death and dying class student of mine at the community college where I teach. Her son...
- Thankfully, I rarely dream about war any more. But when I do, I reach out for support. From my age of 9 to 15 I grew up in a civil war abroad fought in my urban setting in my own neighborhood. Six years of it was not just terrifying, it was...
- Holy cow! I was getting ready to watch the Oscars on TV tonight when suddenly police sirens and lights went wild outside my door. SIX police cars screamed to a halt literally at my door. A high speed 20 mile car chase in pursuit of some...
- Yesterday I went to my 4th doctor's visit to another dermatologist to try to get control of this kidney disease's itching I've had for 65 days straight now. This dermatologist freaked out when I told him that the last dermatologist had...
- I took a sick day off of work yesterday and drove 1 and 1/s hours away to a dermatologist at a big teaching hospital at a university to see about treating my prurigo nodularis and the nightly itching that I've had for 64 days now.It was a waste of...
- Thanks, everybody. I'm experimenting with the idea of putting my wish to be "normal" with PTSD on hold. Instead, I'm shooting for "functional," functioning at work a little, functioning at play a little. Not being too demanding of myself,...
- Thanks to everybody for helping me get through the past week. I still have those prurigo nodularis itching symptoms from my kidney disease triggering my PTSD, but I'm freaking out a lot less about it since several of you told me stories of having...
- At the college that student who quit coming to death and dying class at midterm last fall and earned an F that way came back with a vengeance yesterday out of nowhere and disrupted a class he's not even in. Today he sent me a threatening email...