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- I shared this is a couple of hugs and private messages. I went to an Emmylou Harris concert last night. It was hard to get there, I was in physical pain. Then with my PTSD it was hard to sit between a couple on my left who weren't getting along,...
- Occasionally my teaching at the community college leads to having a student or two come talk to me about their personal lives. I teach a course on death and dying, Kubler Ross's five stages of grief. So sometimes it has to do with a student and...
- It's interesting having PTSD, isn't it? Always something new. I've been doing better for the past few weeks, but today I had physical neuropathy pain. It was sharp all day while I went to the pharmacy to fill a prescription.After a while, I...
- I'm on East Coast time, so it's bedtime for me on Christmas Day. I just wanted to thank everyone here at DS PTSD. It has meant a lot to have such companions through the days leading up to Christmas and during this Christmas day. I speak for...
- In spite of the fact that I'm going to be all alone again this Christmas, I'm not sitting at home and moping. It's because of all the encouragement I get at DS PTSD. It tells me I'm not the only one with such a screwed up family history around...
- Just had to vent. Today I went to my 2nd of 3 doctor's appointments 3 days in a row this week. I avoided missing any classes I teach at the community college by bunching them together this week. They all have to do with my chronic kidney disease,...
- Today was the last day of classes for my Tuesday/Thursday death and dying class I teach to nursing students at my community college. When I dismissed my last class for the last time, we didn't want to head off into the future from the present...
- I've really appreciated all the encouraging emails saying I was an inspiration for speaking at the church about PTSD last Sunday. You all prepared me beforehand, and then you helped me afterward with my doubts about it.Today I heard from one of the...
- Today I got a once in a lifetime request to use my PTSD story in, of all things, a newspaper column. It came from a former classmate in seminary when I was studying to be a hospital chaplain 10 years ago. Since my health broke and I had a PTSD...
- Well, it happened. In the psyc class I teach at the community college to nursing students, we did our unit on military suicide prevention. I showed the movie The Hurt Locker. But this time when we were done and I did my short wrap up lecture, I...
- Today in the psych class I teach for nursing students at the community college, we talked about combat ptsd and soldiers' needs. But then a young woman in the class stayed afterward and talked for a hour about an accident she had 4 years ago in...
- In the last 4 years I've given about a dozen talks a year or so about PTSD at churches. Mostly just talking about our recovery here (anonymously, of course) and generally speaking out about how the stigma around PTSD is not necessary.On Sunday Dec....
- I'm always grateful for our hug book here at DS PTSD. I never take it for granted when I log on to our site and find a hug there from a friend. It makes my day.So imagine how pleased I was today when my Death and Dying class I teach at my...
- My family is toxic, especially during the holidays. I'm in my 50s, and yet I got hit the last Christmas I spent with family. So I set a new course with my therapist: to spend my holidays on my own.The first year, it felt sad and weird like I was...
- About 2 and a half weeks ago I posted here that I went through about 4 hours of intense physical pain from the neuropathy I've got from kidney disease. It's related to PTSD from PTSD meds I took for years that contributed.I got lots of support here...