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- The post about goals here set me to thinking that it was time for me to take stock of 2016 and look into 2017 now. As the year ends, have my requests for strength been answered in 2016? If so, what did I do with the daily strength people here...
- I paid forward the support I've gotten yesterday. I went to court to stand up for a colleague who got in trouble with the law. It was hard to be comfortable in court for me. Back in 2000 when I went through a divorce my there was court room...
- FF TW I am glad that as a guy I can talk here about how 1/3 of my PTSD comes from combat trauma, 1/3 from childhood domestic violence trauma, and 1/3 from molestation when I was a kid. Nonetheless, I don't often know what to ask for as a guy when...
- I've written here about how since July I've taken Prazosin for PTSD nightmares. It's been wonderful with the PTSD nightmares, but it's done something more that Seroquel never did: it has done the opposite and it has made good dreams possible for...
- Hey, everybody, I know sometimes here we talk about the topic of how difficult it is when our trauma came from abusers in our own families. For some of us it was incest, for others like me it was weekly domestic violence. What compounded that...
- FF It's the time of the semester at the community college where I teach in which the nursings students I never met before these classes feel comfortable enough to hang out after class and chat. I had a great chat with one yesterday, and then two...
- Yesterday was the first Daily Strength meeting for Community Leaders since I became one. I'm glad to say that attention was given to making the website more like it used to be. Here's what I wrote back to Daily Strength staff after the...
- I need advice because I've been told today that I'm dim witted and naive and now I do feel dumb. An instructor I know only as an occasional lunch companion at the community college where I teach had a road rage incident on the way to work...
- A nice old gent who heard one of my church talks about PTSD sent me a letter via US snail mail today. In it he very innocently asked about the war I survived in South America when I was a kid. He'd never heard of it, like a lot of wars in third...
- I just got back from an appointment at the medical center over an hour's drive away. I go a lot for treatment for my kidney disease, which I got taking PTSD meds that combined with the onset of undiagnosed diabetes, so I consider my kidney disease...
- I just got a really cool email from a "non-traditional" older woman who is a student who is taking my death and dying class. Nice as it is in what she says about me and the class, though, in it she does point out that some younger women in the...
- It's my mom's birthday today. I'd love to say that it's a happy day of warm remembrances, but it gives me a knot in my throat and it sends chills down my spine even though I loved my mom.I was a very dutiful oldest son to my mom growing up. My...
- In my years coping with PTSD, I took Seroquel for several years because it helped with my nightmares and my startle response. But Seroquel can cause kidney damage, and though I was doing monthly blood tests with my doctor supposedly monitoring for...
- I think I have got to cut back on being too active for the sake of my self care. I'm glad I've powered through fatigue with only 40% kidney capacity and my own PTSD symptoms to do my full time job during the week. But I accepted to talk about...
- I'm about to head out the door to the first of four doctor's appointments I'll be having in the next 3 weeks. They involved poking at both mind and body as they involve a p-doc visit as well as kidney doc visits for my chronic kidney disease, a...