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Throwing the lifeguards phone it the pool! I LOVE it! I think you and I must have similar personalities. My students are obsessed with their phones. The funny thing is they try to be all sneaky about it. But, as I tell them, when the lights are dimmed so that we can use the projector and I...

Been dealing with increasingly severe pain these past few weeks, all stemming from a steroid injection in my back which, despite what the doctor said, obviously went awry. I'm hoping it will calm down eventually, but I don't know. It has been a month now. Dealing with PTSD and a Chronic Pain...

I would think that how much, if any, a person cries is highly dependent on their own personality. I wouldn't think that you could quantify how much is "enough" crying. I was a cop. I don't cry. Ever. I have a hard enough time verbally expressing emotions in therapy, much less crying! It...

Okay, so at my last therapist visit she mentioned something called "Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder" with me. She said based on what she has observed and from what I have told her, I am probably living with a touch of that too. Yay me! Hutch

LOL!

It does. Thank you. And congrats on the grades. I was a history major and psych just wasn't my thing. Wish I had payed more attention to it.

Friends, My therapist told me this week that after the conversations that we've had she thinks I also have "Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder". It is sort of like OCD, but not quite the same thing. I don't really know much about it other than what I have read on the internet. I was...

Friends, Pardon the long absence. I had a steroid shot in my back and week ago Monday and suffered some MAJOR complications from it. It was so bad that I could barely walk for a week. Naturally it was over Spring Break, so that is how I spent my vacation! That is actually a good thing since...

@Ms Spock I agree Ms. Spock. Geordie showed me some of the website that he was working on (in his spare time!) and it was VERY good. Geordie, you are a talented guy!

I don't take a break, really. Maybe just a day or two. I spend the rest of the time planning out my lectures for the rest of the semester. (I change my classes up a little each semester and that is why I don't already have everything done.)

Me too. Glad you liked it.

Good job!

Haven't posted in a while. Been busy with work......which is good because it keeps my mind occupied. Anyway, for my 6th Anniversary I got a tattoo. (I already have one, so this is technically my second.) I am hoping that having it can help me fight both the PTSD demon and the Degenerative...

Welcome. I'm a now former police officer myself. Degenerative Disc Disease ended my career, but I have PTSD on top of it.

I know! It is an emotional roller coaster for sure. But I guess that is true to life. We all have our ups and downs, but the main character really has to deal with some heavy stuff! I just wish I could be as strong as he is.

Maybe some good Karma will be in store for you then!

Just take one step at a time. You'll make it up that hill.

Hang in there, Ayesha. You can do it. And Spring Break is right around the corner!

I don't sleep very much at all. I am usually up every two hours. Sometimes it is because of nightmares and other times it is just a feeling of restlessness. I hear every little sound at night and regularly get up and check the house and make sure that there isn't something wrong.

Last night I dreamed of car accidents. I must have seen every fatality accident that I worked in my career in my dreams. I woke up pale and sweating. I had a hard time catching my breath. Seeing the images flash over and over again in my head.........

Thank you for your service.

Not such a good day today. My wife is having a very stressful year at school (she is a teacher/coach) and it seems like every day there is something else that happened that she tells me about. I was already having a tough day and she called me while I was in between classes to tell me the...

I'm an adjunct history professor for 3 local community colleges now. It works pretty well with PTSD. I can more or less set my schedule for each semester as to what days of the week I want to teach. Plus, the schools all teach on a MW and TR schedule and so I get three day weekends. Plenty...

Okay. I met with my therapist again today. We had to get caught up on all the goings on since I last saw her several months back. She gave me some additional things to work on.......most related to relaxation techniques. But she said that she things I am doing fairly well. We do need to...

Tomorrow I see my therapist again. First visit I've had since October. I really like her. I'll make a full report.......probably on Tuesday since I have to go in between classes and tomorrow is my late night.