When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
This dog had shown more courage than I. This great, powerful, beautiful dog was willing to take a chance on me - a broken, depressed, lonely Marine.
The tree had become our unspoken symbol of that important Christmas when we had all dug deep and fought for one another--for our survival. For our family. For our happiness. And in the process, discov...
If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.
When I have flash backs from PTSD I wish my mind came with a delete key.
Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.
P.T.S.D. doesn't make you weak. It makes you a survivor.
Acknowledgement of the prevalence and impact of trauma challenges psychological theories that localize dysfunction within the individual while ignoring the contribution of social forces on adjustment...
Want to do something noble and courageous while you're on this Earth treat the mentally ill like they have some worth.
You've been so used to fighting Wars with a gun in your hand that you forget to put it down. Not every fight requires a weapon of some kind, and not everything is a fight.
I can't think again. Not ever again. I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something...
He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all th...
As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.
Because once you had been through certain things, their presence inside you never really disappeared.
I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor...I am one wi...
The Persian rug served as their country with people living injade green jungles and others living in an opal cream sky.They were so light. No one would ever be able to tell thatthey had lived there.
Many call it the 1000 yard stare and can't realize the pain when PTSD takes us there
Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)
PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.
The medical professionals should fight PTSD at every cost for those living in pain and the battles they've lost.
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