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- Well ... my time-tested method of persevering ....- Day by day- Hour by hour- Minute by minuteHas gotten me through yet another year.If you're reading this, then .... somehow ... YOU got through another year, too !It's a testament to our inherent...
- I do believe that:a) There ARE more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, ANDb) That doesn't mean all "complementary medicine" works, or that all complementary practitioners are actually honest/believe in what they...
- I was watching an Animal Planet show about Siberia.They showed some ravens just being playful in the snow.But then the narrator said, "Adult ravens seem to lack natural enemies, so they can afford to be playful."And I started to cry.Anybody else...
- As a call for additional subject heading abbreviations came up ... I got to thinking.....I've been in the cross-hairs of a couple of members (including -- ironically -- the author of the abbreviation "FF/Feeling Fragile"), a couple of times, and for...
- Anybody heard about this one ??http://www.bercelifoundation.org/s/1340/aff_2_interior.aspx?sid=1340&gid=1&pgid=327https://vimeo.com/103209258I got a call from a local therapist, needing a guinea pig so she could get some clinical hours toward a...
- Hi there.I'm a 51 year-old male, diagnosed with afib and aflutter about 14 months ago.I have chemically burned eyes (chronic neuropathic eye pain), and a primary immune dysfunction (IgG Subclass Deficiency), but have always taken excellent care of...
- I'm visually impaired, but ... in the same way that some deaf people can actually speak ... I can still type at least a hundred words a minute.You've been warned ;-)That's our dog, Sammy, in my pic.Technically, it's my wife's dog. After I was...
- The show aired today. Here's a podcast version:http://onthecommons.us/images/stories/shows/20150131brooks.mp3If you're interested, you can learn how I got MY diagnosis of Complex PTSD.It's nearly an hour. More details...
- As some of you know, I was bound by a Court-ordered Gag Order for two years, preventing me from publicly telling my story.That Gag Order has expired. Here's my...
- So ... since suffering an episode of DRESS Syndrome, and being told "no more pills !!!" ... perhaps not surprisingly ... I haven't had a lot of luck managing symptoms.I'd like to say I'm "suffering in silence," but neither my estranged wife (with...
- May I ?I've literally cried from some of your stories, over the last few weeks. I've felt powerless to help, but really wished I could.This liver thing that hit me on Christmas Day, and which they're calling a Drug-Induced Liver Injury ... has left...
- Anybody been following the story of the Boston Marathon bombing survivor, Adrianne Haslet-Davis...
- [LONG post warning :-)]Leo brought up some pretty good scientific info about PTSD on another thread. We thought it might BE a good idea to start a thread that's kind of dedicated TO the science.Some will care about this stuff a lot, some a little,...
- Oh, boy. I'm actually a little hesitant to write this, but ... I think I kind of have to.We're all here because of this lovely gift we all share -- PTSD or C-PTSD (I've started using "(C)PTSD" to imply ... either PTSD OR C-PTSD. The parentheses...
- Has the potential treatment of PTSD gone to pot ??http://news.yahoo.com/us-government-signs-off-study-130000693.htmlWhile I won't be jumping at this any time soon ... like the recent studies on LSD for anxiety disorders [1] ... I think this is...