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- I was here two months ago regarding my concern about my tenure process as an instructor in the nursing program at my community college. I did get tenure. However, I had a class this semester in which some students harassed me constantly. Another...
- Just to recap my history with meds, I was on them for 25 years until 2011, when kidney disease took me off all of them at once. Then I managed somehow without any PTSD meds at all for the last 5 years until in March my kidney doctor's checkup said...
- I am not endorsing this because I don't want to risk the chance that I might pass on something that is actually quack medicine to anybody here. Instead I post it here to ask if this is legit. A friend passed this link on to me yesterday. Its...
- For the last 5 years kidney disease disqualified me to PTSD meds. A month ago, though, my kidney doc gave me the go ahead for Seroquel to help with flashbacks and nightmares. After jumping through the referral, insurance, and pre-screening hoops,...
- When a person has a chronic brain disorder like PTSD for years on end, I find myself getting support to power through distorted static in my head day after day just to get things done. This semester was extra stressful at the community college...
- I got feedback just now that folks reaction to my PTSD talk yesterday at that big Boston was strong and appreciative. I had no idea, since I had to run to the Boston airport for my flight to DC right away. That was nice, but while I was away this...
- I've posted here that since I joined DS PTSD about one weekend a month I've spoken about our recovery in small churches in my area. Now I've been asked to go to a big church in Boston and speak about it. It's for an occasion--the installation of a...
- Sometimes news items about PTSD get my attention such that I want to share them here. Two popped up today that I think are worth notice. One is that I heard a podcast by comedian Pete Holmes interviewing musician and actor Henry Rollins. Rollins...
- I got my meeting with my college Vice President about ADA accommodation for my PTSD after getting tenure last month. When I came to his office, he had the head of human resources there. I thought, "uh oh." Then he came. I repeated the situation...
- The meeting that didn't take place last Thursday is taking place tomorrow. I'm talking to my disruptive student's adviser and the director of the program in which I'm her teacher tomorrow, asking them to support me. To do that I'll have to explain...
- Administration canceled the meeting Thursday morning to review what that disruptive student acting out in class. So rather than be in class unsupported with an disruptive student, I canceled class Thursday afternoon. I took a sick day claiming a...
- I loved the "I got tenure" honeymoon of the last week, but life goes on, right? Sure enough, I got disrespected big time in a class today. I let a student make up a test in one of my classes at the community college. She had no excuse, and it was...
- So glad to have you DS PTSD friends. My college roommate (whose wife has PTSD) and I went out into the Appalachian mountains' woods near my house for a picnic. We talked all afternoon about my getting tenure and other things, just talked for...
- Holy cow, everybody! I was wrong. My head was about to explode from the stress of the second interview and waiting so long to hear back after offering my PTSD plan.I just got an email from the college Vice President saying I got tenure!!!!I got it...
- Hard to believe, but the promised April 12th email from the tenure committee still hasn't arrived. Unbelievable. The stress from this wait since I sent them my PTSD plan on March 24 was intense already when they're deadline was announced to be...