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several missing keys. Selling a locking cabinet, I decided to be nice and see if I could find any more than the one key I had with it...

@DharmaGirl John comes off as being a bit lecherous at times but he was just making a living and it was pretty tongue in cheek. He was...

white water rafting spring returns now, or a few more storms before the calm?

I met the surgeon and really liked him. My Appointment was in his office. He was really funny and answered all of my questions. Ptsd...

@DharmaGirl you have to listen to John Prine sing "egg and daughter night", you will get a chuckle. He tells the story of the egg...

went through seven steps to remove a tool from a machine I was using, without once remembering the other plans I had for the tool. Then...

remembering my mom and an album I know she owned, rare for our family but a link to her, just bought a copy of the soundtrack album for...

enough, I dont think you derailed it, I think what you said is what most of us think but hadn't said. I do think a career can be a form...

@brat17 One of the things that modern society has taken from us is the awareness of other peoples struggles. I know more about people I...

I climbed the ladder into my tractor, left right left all the way to my favorite chair. The new knee is not as good as the old one right...

Friday, good weather outlook for the weekend, and GOOD Pizza from the big city waiting for me when I got home. Hoo-ray!

climbed a ladder

it strikes me that all of my life has been in some kind of confinement, and most of it by choice. Do I want to be in my truck and headed...

I think the aspect of inescapability has a huge effect on the way we react to traumatic events. My childhood could easily be seen as...

naaah, I think its just a case of another hobby getting out of hand. If they arent hurting anyone who cares? Now, if they are driving...

the only number of acceptable blowups is zero? Shit. Unacceptable again. Can I drop this class before it affects my GPA? My go to is...

the feeling of timelessness is common amongst us, but difficult to state clearly. This thread just got bumped and I have had more...

COLD COLD MORNING. Move the dogs away from the woodstove so you can keep it burning all night. Dogs like woodstoves in this weather, so do i

the sloppy transition between full on short term disability and part time as tolerated work. Basically, if I stay in bed I get paid, but...

the precursor to a panic attack is a feeling like flop sweat, like things are happening that you would rather not have happen to your...

a lt. col. friend told me about training troops for desert duty in Texas in the summer. They boarded their flights with two jerry cans...

water. My generation only thought about water and hydration when a coach pushed it on us during a sports season in high school. It...

There it is. My sum total of interaction with people I don't have to interact with is in traffic. The rest I have no choice- I need food...

yeah, mcdonalds food is kind of the extreme and I was probably wrong to use them as an example to illustrate the point. I guess I think...

been exposed to two religions that teach diet change=mind change and it is hard to deny the evidence even though mind change is at best...

saved lives today. Survivors will never even know they nearly died. Keeping my truck running right, keeping my eyes open, and knowing...

did you hear about the ptsd sufferer that stopped using punch lines?

the past, the present, and the future walked into a bar together. It was tense.

@Sideways Like i said, more anger, better repression. Highly trained and honed to prrfection repression, but nonetheless just...

@Sideways just what does treatment look like? Do they give you t shirts to wear and stickers and such that warn people not to be ass...

Not much advice, as I turn my anger inward 99% of the time, but I do read about explosive anger being a classic symptom of PTSD here on...

A lot of folks with ptsd have trouble with anger, and unfortunately, don't seek support for it because of the shame they feel about...

got out yesterday. People drove up my driveway, past several private road signs, were headed to my parking area behind my house before...

yep. I have a mental image of keeping it all in, keeping it contained in a thin skinned sphere like a balloon except solid and having a...

oh man, most of the time I am just dumb struck by the things people do, and listening to the things some people say makes me want to...

i used to think that knee replacement was for sissies but now i stand corrected.

indoor show? They should require adequate ventilation if they run nitro fuel indoors. If it was indoors and they ran nitro fuel anyone...

Oh, the difficulty of deciding between difficulties- Blindness is a challenge to overcome, paralysis is a struggle to find and meet the...

fantasies huh? climbing up ladders

Bottom line right there. It is easy for the lines to blur, with teachers and therapists especially. But, always remember and never...

new guitar day!

I'm thinking if the kinds of things, that if you do them, they really pay you back well in terms of promoting functioning for you. And...

Creating a list of Gotta Do's. It's a list of the things I have to do, on a screen, when they need to be done, and how to do them. I...

I can say for myself, it is an offshoot of my catastrophizing every situation I encounter. After wondering if enough situations will...

Considered by most doctors to be the nuclear option, benzo’s are at the end of the trail of the many many other drugs to try first. I...

CODA, now on Apple TV. Laughed cried learned some very colorful sign language. Can you say #%***%*#?

...same as PTSD.....push too hard and it slaps ya back. Good to hear you are off the pain killers. Hope your recovery goes well and...

one week without the pain killers on board. Heres what is happening: the dreams are all but normal again, no more being punished for my...

I get it. My time in my parents house was very short-lived compared and there wasn't any sexual abuse, but the commonality is the...

Red sunset. with wine and a good chair and a view you can enjoy. high performance and finnicky and fiddly or reliable and totally...