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Me, too, Friday.

No, not at all. We are here, too. But your T is a professional. The best thing is to talk with her and us.

I agree with Anthony. Too many people are claiming PTSD these days, which just serves to water down the real diagnosis and give some people some weird excuse. It's deplorable and disrespectful for those of us who really have it. And it muddies the waters. Mental health professionals need to...

I encourage you to get to a therapist soon. I'm glad you are going to get it checked out. Just follow through. I've been where you are, totally terrified and confused. But it got better with therapy. You can't go on without going through. Hang in there, @Super CoolTM. We are here to help...

Umm, when you're reasonably afraid your narc mother might poison you, I think that meets Criteria A. That is why I always made sure to make dinner before she got home. That is why I am always triggered every single day about making dinner.

I was emotionally, and occasionally physically, abused by a narc mother. I've had several therapists post-PTSD who have all confirmed that she played a major role in my PTSD. (I have had several therapists post-PTSD because I always sought out an older woman therapist, and they all retired...

It was the same here this morning, but now it's down to 59 degrees, windy and overcast.

That all makes a lot of sense. After some time in therapy I realized that I, too, pushed everything down, as if it happened to someone else. I had been in therapy a lot during my life but it was always about my abusive mother, and none of the other stuff ever got dealt with. But anyway...

I am a news junkie and the only ones I've ever heard about were Benghazi and Keystone. But then I only consume reliable mainstream news sources, like NYT, WaPo, NBC. I don't consider illegal immigrants and the ACA to be scandals. Benghazi was a horrible event, but Obama was not responsible...

@leehalf, I cannot wrap my mind around how you could possibly compare Trump to Obama? The only president in my lifetime who had no scandals attached to him. Who was a bright and shining light of liberty for all.

Still howling winds and warm. I'm hoping to be able to sleep.

Though, to be honest, Trump is seriously unhinged, and I don't see any problem with speaking that truth. I think it's just a matter of time before enough people get the guts to either vote for impeachment or invoke the 25th amendment. I personally think the latter is the easiest method. They...

Still windy as sh*t here. Howling. But warm. Still almost 70 F even more than an hour after sundown. But I can almost guarantee it won't be this warm on Halloween when we really want it to be warm so the kids don't have to wear coats over their costumes.

Thanks for the warning, Joeylittle. Sometimes we need to be reminded to rein ourselves in.

Super windy, though warm. But like 30 mph wind gusts. It makes me dizzy :eek:

All I know is that my brain feels physically different than it used to before PTSD came on. I can't really explain it well. It's a loss of being capable of sustained attention, concentration. It's feeling challenged by every little thing I have to do in normal life. Life paying bills...

I understand your questions, Erics. I think the fundamental problem a lot of us have with Trump is that he is really just unqualified to be president in so many ways. He has like, no attention span, no capacity for empathy for others, no interest in educating himself on American history. He...

Oh, how do you make that, @Bearlinda?

I learned curry from a Pakistani boyfriend in college. You use beef or chicken (though you can use pork if you're not a Muslim), fried with onions, add garlic, he would get packets of really good curry spices from home in Karachi, but now I have to use American-made curry powder, cumin, garlic...

I'm now also wondering if traumatic brain injury can occur without a physical cause but with a traumatic cause. I'm not finding the right words, but what if a rape or some awful attack can cause a traumatic injury in your brain? Not by some physical strike but by the sheer emotional strike...

I did with one of them. I told him I hated how he took advantage of me. How he pretended to be a father to me then took advantage of the trust he built in me for him and that I never wanted to see him again. He still came around sometimes, but I made it clear to him that I did not appreciate...

I was diagnosed with TMJ about 20 years ago, PTSD 11 years ago, and fibro this June. First off, the best tip I've ever had for the TMJ is to get in the habit of keeping my tongue on the roof of my mouth. It sounds really simple and maybe weird, but it's not easy to get into the habit. But it...

I'm getting ready to have a little dish of a casserole I made tonight. I call it corn casserole. It's fried hamburger and onion, pasta of your choice (today it was a mixture of shell pasta and elbow macaroni), some diced tomatoes, ketchup and corn, lol, comfort food but doesn't really stick to...

Lol, cheese delivery system?

Yum! This sounds similar to chicken curry? Which I'm making tomorrow, with peas and carrots, the traditional way.