Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts
29 November 2017

Living with a Psychiatric Service Dog

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I have chronic complex PTSD. I was diagnosed in 2011, out of the blue . I took six months off work, rested, went to therapy, wrote, crafted,...
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29 July 2016

Letter to the Minister for Sport and Persons with Disabilities

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to The Honourable Carla Qualtrough RE: Support for Canadians who are ‘almost’ disabled In February of 2011, I was diagnosed with Delaye...
30 April 2016

PTSD Support Dog

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Ben is really good for me.  He has come a long way in his training since he came to live with us in January of 2014. He still gets wound up ...
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16 April 2016

Is this real? Am I awake?

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Last night I had strange and frightening dreams that were so real... people in the yard... A trio of mountain cats on the deck, my friend an...
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13 February 2016

Meds: relief or functionality, not both

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I only feel truly unwound when I have taken enough sedatives that I can hardly walk.  And even then, the chest pain often breaks through.  O...
29 January 2016

Today...

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... I just can't.  So I put on my reindeer pyjamas and got back into bed.  Some days are like that, even in Australia.
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20 December 2015

Involuntary Silence

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Sometimes, I can't talk.  There are words in my head, but I can't get them out. And there aren't a lot of them in my head, eithe...
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19 December 2015

Apparently it's seasonal

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http://blog.applejackcreek.com/2012/12/a-shortage-of-words.html?m=0 Happening again. 
12 December 2015

Sick days

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When we were small, if we were too sick to go anywhere we often went into Mom and Dad's big bed for the day. There was a little TV on th...
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03 December 2015

Weary

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25 September 2015

Note to self

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Note to self: reading an entire book on PTSD is enlightening and fascinating....  And bound to crank the symptoms up to eleven.  Next time j...
03 September 2015

Winding down.

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I’ve had to make some difficult choices over the last little while. The truth of the matter is that my health is not improving – I’m stable...
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11 June 2015

Marijuana Milk

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Wow. Yeah, this is definitely an easy way to take your medicine! It turned out to be far more powerful than I expected, so all those warning...
27 May 2015

Med update: three weeks in

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I’ve been using the medical marijuana for about three weeks now, so I figured it was time for an update. First and foremost: I sleep like...
25 April 2015

Sleep meds

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One of the very best things about sleep medications: Knowing with absolute certainty that you will sleep soundly for a minimum of eight hour...
22 April 2015

Exhausted

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Woke up today utterly exhausted.  Dunno why. I did a few things yesterday, but nothing overwhelming.  This is how it goes. Some days, your b...
21 April 2015

It's not because I won't let go...

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A friend posted this on my time line today: Yeah.  I was so sure that if I just let go of the past I'd get better.  I let go. It was def...
09 March 2015

Call the dogs!

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We have always told the kids if anything scares them, like if they run into a cougar / bear / wolf (all common enough here), the very first ...
06 March 2015

Hedonism

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This is my psychiatrist's prescription. :) I'm gomna knit! Boy  do I know how to party eh?
01 March 2015

Just sedate me

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I don't sleep well. Even with the sedatives. Well, I sleep but I dream and wake weary from all I have seen and done in my sleep.  I an o...
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