PTSD

It’s dark and comfortless this place I’m in – a place without reason or hope or even a pinprick of light. I am drowning! The utter silence from reasonable thinking and sound advice is deafening. I know I need to…
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I awaken this morning and notice a shift. It seems like I have spent the last fifty odd years fighting for my very survival in one form or another. But today, all the fight has left me. I have no…
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What does it mean to have PTSD? I am writing this post in the hopes it will give those who have a PTSD sufferer in their lives a better understanding of the struggles a sufferer can go through so they…
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I get up early again after not much sleep – the aftermath of yet another panic attack! I am weary and lethargic. I cannot get into my office this morning as they disabled my old keycard before giving me a new…
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Today I intentionally went down to watch the sunset. As I arrive at the beachfront there are more people here than I’d like but I stay anyway. Once again I am thankful for my artificial knee that allows me to…
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It’s been said that courage is not the absence of fear – how true is that? If I stopped moving every time I was afraid, I would pretty much be immobile… I used to say that fear is what kept…
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I suffer from PTSD. It’s a horrible, invisible illness and some days suffer is exactly the right adjective. Over the years I have employed strategies to minimise the triggers and resulting symptoms. Most people I know have no idea that…
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