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This Thursday I held my first lecture on living with PTSD and dissociation. The group was students at the university training to be psychologists.
I had been very nervous about it for weeks. I was afraid and had a hard time writing and working with my presentation because I was in the middle of processing a new trauma. I managed to get my symptoms in check a week or so before the lecture.
The lecture:
I managed to get the technical part of things working.
I was introduced, I started talking (held the lecture in English), the students asked me good questions.
I asked for a break after talking for 75 minutes and was getting exhausted. I got back, still tired, and continued my talk. I got most of the stuff out that I wanted to say.
I felt pretty calm during the whole time, centred.
One student gave me such a nice compliment: I wish you would get hired and could come and talk to the whole class, you were very structured/pedagogic.
So hurray for me for daring to do the lecture, for doing it so well and for bragging about it here
I had been very nervous about it for weeks. I was afraid and had a hard time writing and working with my presentation because I was in the middle of processing a new trauma. I managed to get my symptoms in check a week or so before the lecture.
The lecture:
I managed to get the technical part of things working.
I was introduced, I started talking (held the lecture in English), the students asked me good questions.
I asked for a break after talking for 75 minutes and was getting exhausted. I got back, still tired, and continued my talk. I got most of the stuff out that I wanted to say.
I felt pretty calm during the whole time, centred.
One student gave me such a nice compliment: I wish you would get hired and could come and talk to the whole class, you were very structured/pedagogic.
So hurray for me for daring to do the lecture, for doing it so well and for bragging about it here