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- Though I've had PTSD since I was in kindergarten and it really got difficult from when I was 17 until I was 30, when I got into really good therapy and support groups. After that I was married with a really good jobas a teacher from 1988 to 2000...
- I am a religious and spiritual person who once a year teaches a college course on World Religions as I benefit from almost all of them in one way or another. Please be aware that I volunteer to be helped by the spiritual stories of these religions...
- Thanks for all the advice and support about my student who came to my office in the guise of wanting to talk about PTSD but who attacked me verbally instead. It was quite a scene. She'd brought her toddler knowing she was coming to yell at her...
- I've had plenty of nightmares, and nightmares that hand something to teach me. But now I had a happy mind mending dream again like the Springsteen one I reported here I had last week. Music again. This time I dreamt about Leonard Cohen songs...
- I've posted here about recurring nightmares I've had from PTSD. Specifically about a poor kitten my mother killed when I was a child. Nightmares about it were rooted in domestic violence trauma throughout childhood and youth until I left home at...
- We have a new pope from Argentina whose ministry there covers the period in which I got my PTSD that brings me to this site every day. I was one of those people rounded up in that period of Argentina's history so that's my trauma that caused me to...
- I've been diagnosed with PTSD since 1995, and in that time I've had both good and bad doctors. I've learned they're just people, too. I take responsibility for my own wellness. It's up to me to put their findings about me and my condition to...
- Hi,I've only been diagnosed with diabetes 2 for a year and a half. I'm on glipi;zide ER and it's worked wonderfully. In the last 2 weeks, though, I've had low blood sugar episodes that have made it hard to get through my working day, enjoy...
- Four-Legged Warriors Show Signs Of PTSDNational Public Radio-All Things Considered by Ryan Loyd March 11, 2013 3:51 PM http://www.npr.org/2013/03/11/173812785/four-legged-warriors-show-signs-of-ptsd"For years, PTSD or post-traumatic stress disorder...
- Does anybody have experience with that feeling that comes with PTSD from the shame of surviving abuse? That feeling that you're never good enough? That you have to be driven to be better all the time?I should explain, I guess, that my childhood...
- Things have gone well for me this semester at the little rural community college where I teach. I can't complain. But for some silly reason, of all the colleges and universities within a 200 mile radius, ours is the one that decided to have its...
- Just another note of thanks at the end of a hard work week. Being able to function again after crashing just 2 and 1/2 years ago again with PTSD is something I don't take for granted. I lost my job, my family turned on me, and my fiancee called...
- This week I had a student in my college grief class begin to act erratically. So I asked for advice from 2 people here. They gave it, I used it, and and it worked out great.I took my student aside and offered her the college's 3 free counseling...
- We deal with a lot of needs here, helping each other when we have flashbacks, flashes of anger, insomnia, and all manner of PTSD symptoms and issues. Every once in a while, I'd like to stop and compliment the people who make the support here...
- Remember back when gay folk had to live more closeted than today? When gay people had "gaydar" like radar and could sense which heterosexual allies to trust with their personal info and vice versa?Something like that seems to happen from my PTSD...