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Prozac knocks down my perma-adrenaline firing; not a fan of pharma but Prozac gets you halfway to calm. When I need more, pot. It's natural and amazing. Yes to minerals; we used to get them in our food but soils are depleted now.

Gray Owl is Wise Owl. Gizmo has Mo Brains. I am thinking deeply. Emotional detachment is very Bhuddist; and it's hard but the only path in this case, I agree. The high road is not the easy road.

Thankfully my work is very self-directed because this week has been a lost cause. So should I inform him about my research on workaholism or not? Let him twist in the wind and figure it out for himself, or loop him into my findings? What's the right thing to do? Give of myself or not?

Smart Gizmo. Probably. I have no idea what that looks like but it will entail multiple triggers and unhealthy thinking on his part. But it's NOT MY TRIGGER. I have my own, and this behavior of his has the potential to trigger me to the MOON

Good Morning Team Trauma! I have been pretty distant from the husband this week, and he is noticing. Since he won't get T or meds over the years I have been the one to diagnose. Right or wrong, that's what we have have. Assuming you trust my assessments he has social anxiety disorder and...

UPDATE from His/Her PTSDland: I took charge of my life, not his. Booked a college hockey game date with family and BFF in October. Organizing family vacation next year. Eyeballed to-dos at current home prior to sale, prioritized MY WAY which is far more clear-eyed than Mr Energizer Bunny...

His work is his identity; big ego and low self esteem. It's the snide, superior attitude that bothers me. There are better, kinder, more positive ways to view others.

My husband is a workaholic. We have zero social life. He justifies his working all the time as him being the guy you can count on, the guy who solves problems, blah blah. It's pretty clear that his reliance on work as the ONLY meaningful way to spend time is a coping mechanism. Both of us...

My husband and I both have PTSD. It's great and it's hell. The hellish part is when we are both triggered; no matter the reason for the triggers we devolve into mistrust and anger. The great part is not having to explain yourself, or hide your real self. Would I do it again? Maybe not. Or...

Anticipatory stress is my prob too.

This helps. Yes I talked to him about damaging our marriage, about how much this hurts. I think he is terrified of accepting another human besides me but won't admit it. I want to find a way to broker peace amongst my loved ones to achieve a more positive and balanced family environment. My...

Does anybody else get this: when in a trigger or pre-trigger state my brain literally feels different, inside --? Not pain, more like a pervasive numbness. Not as severe as dissociation. Feels like someone poured warm water in from the top down and it's cocooning my brain....? while...

Today's weirdness in PTSD world is checking my husband's bank balance since his password expired a week ago. I have been secretly panicking about his bank balance for days, for no reason. Today I called the bank and reset the password, heart pounding, fight-or-flight instinct firing away...

husband and I both have PTSD. His hyper vigilance is expressed in irrational worries about negative outcomes that do not exist. He has real trouble relating to my kids, 19 year old twins, who are pretty darned stable -- in college, heading for good careers, polite, just normal. He exaggerates...

Isn't that the truth?? There is no other way to reprogram ze brain.

I have a delicate professional matter that involves my boss and his boss. Naturally I fretted about this over the weekend, but pretty normally -- I was not freaking out, nor triggered. Thank God for Prozac. This morning I went over my boss' head, engaged the head of the company, he fully...

This community is so supportive, I am grateful every day to connect with you all. Our lives are not easy. Our nervous systems are overwrought, we have a disease that can be managed but not cured. We the everyday sufferers soldier on in this world without help from non-profits, or our...

YES Cancers are the emotional beings of the universe. FEELING our way through life!

Definitely PTSD. Your brain sends signals that do not match the reality of the circumstances. It's an overstimulated sympathetic nervous system, PTSD-related, whereby your brain fires DANGER DANGER signals (not necessarily that dramatic) without cause. HATE IT.

The past 12 months have been another year of healing. Every bday I look at my PTSD and consider where I was a year ago. My husband also suffers from PTSD and so our progress is always linked. This year hubby crossed over from still sick to healing. He is getting control of his triggers...

Update: boss just informed me that I am going to be "banging the phones bigtime." You know, I am not as scared as I expected, but I haven't yet dialed a number! Maybe I can turn this into a healing exercise, getting over imagined terrors and rejections; that would be he big girl thing to do...

Does it help to consider that the elderly yelling at you may come from a place within them of fear of being irrelevant and unheard? Older folks can get pretty frustrated and scared that they no longer control their lives. Maybe those crabby elders have more in common with us than we...

you aint lost and forgotten you are awesome

this is awesome awesome....particularly the tips on confidence, breathing, tone, etc. I GOT THIS

I feel like a two year-old afraid of a balloon or something else infantile. My job requires more phone work than I expected, I am stressing. What stinks is that once I reach the person (which validates my purpose as a worthy human, again -- ridiculous) I am fine. Can feel the cortisol and...