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- I know I can say this here and folks won't freak out, 'cause folks here feel this way often, too, and still come up positive. I'm tired. Nothing's wrong, it's just that these days my one day off is Tuesdays, as I'm working through the weekends. ...
- For a long time, in addition to struggling to accept that my parents were abusive in the home in my childhood, I've struggled to accept that my sister grew up to become abusive herself. I took care of my little sister through a lot of bad times,...
- The stolen wallet process of canceling the stolen credit cards and replacing them with new safe ones entered a comedic phase today. Today my replacement card from my credit card company arrived via UPS. Yay! But it didn't work. Boo! Why not? ...
- I got my wallet stolen at the train station by a pickpocket who went on to try to use my credit cards, so I'm busy canceling them. Trying really hard not to fall into a PTSD thing due to being a victim of a petty crime. Could happen to anyone,...
- I just went to the 60th birthday party of an old friend. After the part I stayed over for the weekend for us catch up.We're known each other closely as workers and social friends since 1983. Yet when we talked old times, I realized my friend still...
- Last week I vented about some disruptive students in my community college class. Your replies suggested I go beyond venting and thinking of quitting to asking my boss for help. I took the unusual step of printing off your replies from here at DS...
- An ex FBI agent teaches criminal justice classes at my community college in his retirement from the FBI. As luck would have it, in the 1980s he was a board member at a church my abusive dad pastored. So he doesn't know of the wife beating and child...
- It's so great to report that I actually printed off the thread where I posted about the classroom disrespect issue I asked for support on. I printed it off with the DS PTSD replies from right here saying I should ask for help from my boss at work. ...
- I teach nursing students the care of terminal patients at a community college because I was a hospital chaplain in the field for 10 years. Usually it's really rewarding and manageable even with PTSD.I teach 2 morning classes back to back. The...
- This past weekend I went on an overnight trip by myself to the city 2 hours away. I read a good book, I went to see a ball game. All by myself, yes. But, wow, was it restorative. I get worn down by the daily grind of working with my PTSD around...
- A journalist who got PTSD covering war stories just put out a PTSD book that says what we've been saying here. That treatment often can do harm by making us repeat our trauma to the point we relive it. That speaking of having PTSD is to bear...
- I had my flu shot this year but I got it yesterday anyway. I hear that's been pretty common this year with this year's flu bug. I live alone, it's howling wind and snow outside, and when I get this sick I get alienated somehow with PTSD symptoms. ...
- I didn't even feel like giving that chat on PTSD at that church yesterday, and I posted saying so here beforehand. But then it went well. Turns out a member of the audience has a radio program on a college station. So he invited me to speak on...
- Anybody out there tired today? It's been the first week of work back to school. I love my job teaching at the community college. I'm lucky I can work. It's been a good week, no complaints.But working with PTSD at any job, no matter how good it...
- Today my semester teaching full time at the community college begins again. I'm as ready as I can be. But I still get the jitters. I'm teaching 3 sections of a class for nursing students on the care of terminally illpatients. A death and dying...