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- On Saturday I venture to lead a field trip with students in a van to a museum 2 hours away.No big deal, but PTSD meds gave me permanent kidney damage, which gave me nerve damage in my feet. I either feel numb there which gives me clown shoe feet,...
- Today, for the umpteenth time, my family abusers got a surrogate to try to contact me at work for them against my express wishes through my lawyer.I broke off all contact with family member abusers from 1992-2000 and got a lot of PTSD recovery done...
- I appreciate all the help here for major panic attacks--breathing, meditation, grounding techniques I've gotten here all work.But over hours this evening I've had a different kind of PTSD panic attack symptom. No major attack, just continuous...
- Nothing new, just know I'm not the only one. Seems to me a big part of living with PTSD is being tired. Being functional while the brain's fueling flashbacks and a myriad of other symptoms means we put out twice the effort just to have a regular...
- Gero's post about how there are trolls out there in other DS sites was a good warning.It also made me stop to appreciate how safe it's been here on DS PTSD lately. We've brought up some pretty vulnerable topics lately, and it's been safe and pretty...
- Out of the blue today I got an email from the college where I taught in 2011 where I was suddenly and mysteriously fired. My kidney disease had made it impossible for me to take meds any more for PTSD, so I was taken off of them. I had a HORRIBLE...
- I spoke on PTSD in another church yesterday. Good response. Kind of tired. Hope it does some good.My focus is to correct misconceptions from the stigma and let audiences know there's a lot of us we come in all kinds, and we're not dangerous, we...
- My hero, Jose Mujica, for whom I chose my username mujicaptsd, is coming to the US and will be 2 hours from where I live on Monday May 12.He lived through the war in Uruguay and was tortured there like I was. He was shot twice, also, and is open...
- I posted in another thread that for the last 2 weeks getting inspired by my psych classes talking about PTSD right now was like that line from arfie here: going to a hardware store to buy bread. And then my classes turned amazing.Yeah, it's been...
- It's an expression I learned from the wisdom of arfie here, and it fits what happened to me today. In the psych class I teach at the community college, we get an author to visit us once a semester, the author who wrote one of our textbooks. My...
- I've been blessed this semester that despite PTSD flashbacks daily, chronic kidney failure down to 40% kidney function, and diabetes, I haven't been late to work or missed a day all semester. A miracle.Any day now I feel that streak's going to be...
- Believe it or not, I'm at a place in my PTSD recovery in which teaching Death and Dying psych classes at my community college every day is a positive booster for me usually.Not so much today. I showed the movie Tuesdays with Morrie. I thought that...
- Worked all weekend, kidney disease from former PTSD meds tiring me, so not in mood for a crappy day, but had one. Tues teaching schedule is 3 double periods back to back at the community college, so it's surprising my first crappy day all semester...
- http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/new-film-raises-awareness-about-vet-suicides-207126595762I saw this interview this morning. I'm going to tell my Death and Dying class I teach about my community college about it, so I thought we should know...
- Over Spring Break I read a new history book on the Uruguayan war period I survived in the 1970s, where I got PTSD. A chapter on torture got my attention, because it put something into words that resulted in my not being able to talk about my...