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- I had a rough morning. My throwing my body clock off usually stresses the daily resistance I have that keeps flashbacks from poking through. This morning I had a flashback attack, therefore, with little in the way of my usual coping defenses and...
- A couple of us from here at DS PTSD have swapped messages individually about how we experience Father's Day given that some of us got our PTSD from violent fathers in the home. That would be my case. For others, it brings up memories of family...
- I have a big doctor's appointment tomorrow. Someone here said for me to look at it like a Jiffy Lube service pit stop, so that's the approach I'm going to try to take. But I am a little anxious. I only have 4 of these appointments per year, one...
- Anybody else creeped out by how often these shooting rampages lately seem to happen at schools? I've only been able to return to work in the last 2 years, and I love it. But I struggle with PTSD at the school where I work. These school shootings...
- It's been a year since I first came here to Daily Strength PTSD, and on my one year anniversary I just wanted to thank everybody. As most of you know, I turned to using this site daily when I could no longer take my PTSD medications daily, as I'd...
- I just had a short road trip with my old college roommate (class of 1979, so years ago) and caught up. Turns out his wife just got diagnosed with PTSD! I'm sorry for her, but glad we can connect. Memories surfaced for her of sexual abuse as a...
- School's out, and the summer school class I was going to teach got canceled. Not enough students enrolled. It happened to lots of teachers this summer, not just me.So, less money and more time all alone. I've only been working now for 2 years...
- It's wild, but I survived 6 years of civil war on the mission field as a civilian kid and young man. I've worked really hard since 1995 to grieve the losses from those times and come to terms with the nightmares and other anxieties I got from that...
- I woke up this a.m. to see news footage on TV of a devastating tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma. A school and a hospital were hit. In my wandering I lived in Oklahoma for 3 years and tornadoes are a real problem in "tornado alley" there. I had a...
- As the song goes, "ain't no cure for the summer time blues."I don't want to believe that, so I'm new here.Hi. I'm a college teacher. Lived in a big Midwestern city for 30 years, but college budget cuts from the recession ofter the 2008 crash lost...
- Wow, guess who tried to email me tonight for the first time in 3 years? One of the most abusive members of my violent family. It was from them that I severed all contact in 2010 with the help of my therapist. Suddenly the name pops up in my email...
- It's the next to last day of the school year. I'm glad I've made it this far into my second year of being back at work after being hospitalized in 2010-2011. I do love it.But as I go to work this morning, I'm anxious. Yesterday in the building...
- I've been humbled by PTSD over the years. I've had to accept that, at least in my own case, it probably won't ever be completely banished from my life. I've learned not to have grandiose expectations, but be grateful for little things. A nice...
- Over the past year I've had the happy occasion to chat with some of us here whose lives follow the school year calendar, whether we're fortunate enough to be able to do so as teachers or as student. I'm a teacher myself and in a month my school...
- Just a thank you to all fellow travelers here about working to overcome agoraphobia. When I first came here, I was grateful to be able to work again. But tjat was it. Home, work, grocery store, then home again. No email or phone pals. Nothing. ...