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PTSD
9-11: One giant PTSD trigger
Today is the anniversary of the last day of the past. On September 12, 2001, things started changing in America. Seeds had been planted: seeds of ideas, seeds of change, and seeds of terror. The ...
Stop forgiving
Recently I was personally asked to support a Wolfpack basketball player who is going through rehab for a severe spinal cord injury. I decided not to send money to his rehab fund. Why talk publicly ...
Columbine writer struggled with PTSD
For the past couple of weeks I’ve been participating in a discussion on Goodreads with Dave Cullen, the writer of Columbine. Dave wrote about the Columbine incident for Salon.com and his book was very, very ...
Avoidance
I’ve been avoiding my blog. Avoidance is a common coping mechanism for people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); you want to stay away from the things you know will upset you. But like just about ...
Duke PTSD Study suggests disorder is related to cognitive dysfunction
The results of a just-released Duke University study suggest that people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, suffer severe cognitive impairment. Specifically, patients with PTSD who underwent MRI brain scans during a test exhibited signs ...
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 ...
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 ...