March | 2009 | Michelle Tackabery

And yesterday, Dinosaur Comics gave hope to PTSD sufferers

The ever-brilliant Ryan North discussed the tricky bane of the PTSD sufferer, the amygdala, yesterday in his web comic. A must-read and a must-subscribe. Because if you can’t laugh at yourself, you can laugh at ...

Mar, 31

Under the knife

Tomorrow I add another wound to my hand so I can have a scar to match the one just beneath my thumb that I got when I was in college. That one I received when ...

Mar, 25

Changing Your Life with PTSD Part 3: Understand Your Limitations

Everyone deals with stress, but there’s a reason it’s called post-traumatic stress disorder: people with PTSD do not handle stress as well as some others do. Personally I believe PTSD is more of a disability ...

Mar, 19

Changing Your Life with PTSD, Part 2: Know Your Relationships

On my journey to here, I have spent a lot of time trying to figure out why: Why am I so unhappy? Why does everything seem so pointless? Why am I jumping at shadows? Why ...

Mar, 17

Changing Your Life with PTSD, Part 1: Identification and Visualization

As frequent readers of this blog know, there was a time when I was struggling with my post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) almost full-time: I attempted to kill myself, was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, was ...

Mar, 16

The Sacred Pause

Michael J. Formica at Psychology Today blogged about a tool for managing stress and anger known as the Sacred Pause. As he explained it, the Sacred Pause is a tool for getting to the root ...

Mar, 15

A Post from the Edge

Kayla Williams posted a great piece at the Huffington Post: the view from the trigger end of the gun of a PTSD suicide. The gun is heavy in my hand, cold, solid. I sit on ...

Mar, 10

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