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- Whoever it was that posted the link to Pete Walker's 13 tips for dealing with flashbacks, thanks! Not only did they help me personally, but I just gave a little PTSD talk to some nursing students following a viewing of the film The Hurt Locker....
- Hey, this may be too much to ask, but I thought I'd try. I love being a teacher, when PTSD allows, which it has off and on over the years, between hospitalizations about once a decade and starting over. That sort of thing. I've gotten a lot of...
- Hi, all. Hope you're safe from the storm. I'm on the east coast, work's canceled, so while riding it out I'm indulging in some reflection. I've talked about this in therapy, but not in an open support group of peers like I have here. PTSD...
- Well, it finally happened. I'd been trying to get through to my boss about a kid that was a real problem in one of my classes over the last few weeks. I vented about it here, and got lots of support, but it kept up. We're just about out the door...
- As I've mentioned before, I've had PTSD for 40 years now from triple forms of traumas from childhood to college age. Every decade or so I've had a setback I've had to recover from, but I'm pretty functional now over all, and work as a teacher.I get...
- It's disturbing to say it, but my mom's one of my main abusers and it's her birthday today. Memories of mom. I know she came from an abusive home herself, and that's how she came to abuse me. I grew up physically, mentally, spiritually, and...
- I posted earlier this week about the paradox of PTSD and having trouble being happy. Now the flip side's true. Today in a class I teach one of my students became suddenly ill. My good crisis skills kicked in, and I had students take care of her...
- I'm embarrassed to share this topic, but here goes. I relate to the many postings here about when people are in crisis. Over my years with PTSD I've been in most of them, too. But now it's that I've worked my way out of the the last crisis point...
- ...literally. I had a car accident today. It totaled my car, but I'm fine and so is the other car's driver. Thing is, I noticed that in addition to the downside of PTSD I complain about here, in the crisis moment PTSD experience seemed to help....
- I've had a great few months lately, in part because my doc found the right med for my diabetes to stop the blood sugar roller coaster I was on for a couple of years. But I'm feeling poorly physically these days. My darn pharmacist switched my...
- Just wanted to report progress, everybody. As a teacher, back to school with PTSD is a big adjustment. I said so here and got a ton of helpful replies. We're 2 weeks into the school year now, and off to a good start. Each of the last two weeks I...
- I've noticed over the years that one of my coping mechanisms to live with PTSD, flashbacks, panic attacks, painful memories has been a particular kind of wacky sense of humor. Dark humor is part of it, but it's not just dark. It's not better or...
- I'm a teacher, so back to school directly affects me. But it affects a lot of people, their kids, and their families beyond those who work directly in schools. I wonder if you have experience to share. I love school--it was safer than home for me,...
- This isn't a very deep topic. It's just that I'm always amazed at how I forget everything I've learned about coping for a moment when I have an anxiety attack. I forget, just for a terrified moment, that I've survived thousands upon thousands of...
- Often we don't realize that PTSD really isn't just a marginal experience, but is something recognized in mainstream society in great works of art. I just realized Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse Five, is not only considered #18 among the...