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I'm not seeing much humor in this thread, maybe I missed it. :think:

There's gonna have to be more than food involved :crazy:

I watched this with my wife a couple of nights ago. It is about a dentist who lost his family on 9/11. He had PTSD as a result. I was mesmerized, and I thought it was a great movie. I thought it gave a realistic depiction of what it's like to have PTSD. Has anyone else seen this movie?

I voted yes. I say this because of my own experience. I had PTSD, and other psychiatric diagnoses for years. I was close to dying, no one thought I could ever recover. I was given up as hopeless after 4 months in a drug rehab, that also had a program for people with PTSD. These were...

As a kid, I was always the smallest boy in the class, but I had a big mouth, and was totally obnoxious. I was skinny, almost sickly. I had no ability to think or act appropriately, and acted out a lot. I might as well have drawn a bullseye on my forehead. I did get picked on, humiliated, and...

Please give him my regards. I am a recovering Aloholic myself, I will be going to a Big Book study tonight after work. I wish him the best.

That is awesome. Good luck and best wishes to both of you.

It's another story, but I know exactly how you feel. You can do this. Send him to hell.

Chris, could you elaborate. What is it you are on to? I forgot about this post. I should have elaborated some, it's a very good topic. I don't think our brains are static. How could they be? New synampic connections occur with everything we experience. If this did not occur, we would be...

I wrote "I Believe PTSD is Curable". In it I gave a brief description of how PTSD symptoms deminished over time, by playing a stringed instrument right and left handed. When I had PTSD, I most definetly felt as though I was on borrowed time, and that my life would be cut short. All of the...

You go girl, I'm very proud of you.

I have sleep apnea, had a sleep study done in 2000. I use a cpap machine for this. I would not want to live without it. It is my belief, there is a cross section of a sort, with PTSD and sleep disturbances. I think poor quality sleep might tend to perpetuate the chemical / neurological...

Sometimes I think having PTSD was beneficial, in an odd sort of way. It made studying difficult. And I was a nervous wreck. I knew I was not a normal, well-adjusted person. I knew I would have to somehow claw my way into being a productive member of society, but at that time, I did not...

It can be done, I promise you. I attended pharmacy school and graduated in 1988. Back then prepharmacy required calculus, organic chemistry, calculus, physics, microbiology, and more. Pharmacy school had subjects like biochemistry, pathophysiology, pharmacology, compounding, pharmacokinetics...

Darn good question, and you have an eloquent way of asking it. In my older days, it was fear, and fear of failure. It served me well in some ways, but what a price to pay. For me, it's a combination of things, such as exploration, paradox, and boredome at times. I like to have things to look...

A short paragraph about the history of PTSD might be good. PTSD is generally associated with combat veterans. But there are infinite types of trauma that can cause a person to have PTSD. You could fill a library discussing the impact PTSD has on the person, and their families. That would be...

I can relate with where you are at. My story is similar. Hang in there, it can get better.

:thumbs-up Walking through fire is a good thing. It's painfull, but by no means long lasting. Wait till tomorrow, see how you are feeling, and let us know.

Sometimes therapy, and getting better, is akin to walking through fire. I would encourage you to consider sticking with it.

When I was first diagnosed with PTSD, I think I felt a bit of relief. I did not know much about it, but things started to make sense.

> A 6 year old and a 4 year old are upstairs in their > bedroom. 'You know what?' says the 6 year old. 'I > think it's about time we started cussing.' > > The 4 year old nods his head in approval. > > The 6 year old continues, 'When we go downstairs > for breakfast, I'm gonna say...

Sometimes, I get that too. Hey it's a good thing, it'll come to you. One thing is, we have not yet figured out who and what we are. Even today. We have long since put men on the moon, cured many diseases, we have mapped galaxies, even our oceans. As soon as I post this, b/c of the internet...

Yeah that would be one way of phrasing it. During those days that was a pattern. I still have some of those activities, but I don't believe I obsess over these things. for example: I still enjoy playing music, and I will probably play up to an hr a day. If I have the day off, I might even...

I don't like to think of myself as a violent person, but if some schmuck swung a cane, and missed me by a few inches, that would not go over well. A couple of years ago, I had a female supervisor who became very difficult. We ended up in our company's personnel dept and I made her look like...

For a while I did the shopping thing, but that was some time ago. One thing I did a lot was to obsess over something that would interest me. We have talked about a racing mind. I must have done this over a miriad of topics. I stayed preoccupied with big game hunting, African history...