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    Hello From Dan

    Hey Yowser, Dan Odd seeing you here :P but welcome all the same. I've been here a while, mostly lurking in the last years but I just had to come out of hiding to say hello to you. Take care of my beach umbrella please! K
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    Any Advice On Dealing With PTSD And University?

    I was a full-time student for many years and what worked for me was planning ahead and knowing that it would take me longer to do certain things than some of my colleagues. i.e. for every two hours I spent sitting at my books appearing to study, perhaps 30-45mins would have been "lost" to being...
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    Things I Have Learned...But Do Not Always Practice!

    These are the things I have learned. As an adult I possess the power to choose.I may often forget this or dislike the idea that I do, but I know that I have the power to make decisions that affect my life. I may prefer to place the blame on those who hurt me, but my adult life is of my...
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    Greetings - Young Doctor With PTSD

    Just wanted to thank everyone for their welcome. I decided that for now I am not pursuing therapy though I will consider it for sure once I finish residency. And certainly before that if things become too hard to handle. Right now I have started an alliance with my family physician and we are...
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    Things I Figured Out While Hospitalized

    Hey batgirl, I just wanted to say I found reading that really good. I think it is marvellous you sat down and wrote it out and if you feel like you need a reminder you just have to go back and read what you wrote. I feel like what you wrote is an important step to getting life back.
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    News Des-Nos / Complex PTSD

    DES-NOS is a new diagnosis proposed to be added to the DSM V to be published in 2011. It stands for Disorders of Extreme Stress - Not Otherwise Specified. It is proposed to be the official DSM V coding for what may otherwise be known as "complex PTSD" or c-PTSD. I deeply hope though that when...
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    News Des-Nos / Complex PTSD

    ROFLMAO Maus you hit it on the head... Bravo, another promotion for grouping together things that we don't understand and giving them names... sort of like the word "Idiopathic". Meaning "I am a doctor but have no clue what is wrong with you"!
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    Minceymeatpie's Mental Imagery

    Interesting since I have never been within an intimate relationship, have never had sex (at least not to my recall), don't really want to and certainly don't think of it as fun... as for my support systems they are fairly non-existent at present and have seldom been good. Guess if this works...
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    How Do You Cope With Employment

    I drag myself to work most days dreading it. Then when I am finished work I get home dreading home. It gets pretty tiring after a while. But if I were not working I wouldn't know what to do with myself. Work helps me because it forces me to keep moving... if not I think I would go completely...
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    Maus - I am a Dutch Physician With PTSD

    Hello Maus, Welcome to the forum. I hope you find what you're looking for. Dont' worry about trying to be a resource for others. Maybe this is one place where we can be patients instead.
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    I Am Not Me Today - Confused and Angry

    I can relate. I used to do martial arts because I loved taking it all out on the mat and fighting someone. All the violence and anger and hate laid out. And they even gave you medals for it. I quit because I started to be afraid of how much I liked it. I haven't been back in years and years. But...
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    Any Help In Eastern Canada?

    Hi C, If you work for a company they usually have employee assistance programs. If however you work for an individual then you're right there, there's not likely to be any EAP. You don't need to tell your boss you have a mental illness at all. Just that you have a doctor's appointment. You...
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    Trauma? What Trauma?

    Thanks for your responses. Wadoo, I really do relate to what you said. I remember certain things that happened that shouldn't have happened and could logically be called trauma yet to my internal self I can't seem to accept that and I end up minimising all the time. As for the memory part...
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    Minceymeatpie's Mental Imagery

    Q1. What colour is the road? The road is grey. I guess because that's the colour of roads. I'm not really sure there is another reason. Q2. What texture is the road? Rough, tarred with potholes. I think I decided on this because I figure the road of my life is far from perfect... Q3. How solid...
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    Any Help In Eastern Canada?

    Trained at Dalhousie so I do know a few psychiatrists there. Can only speak for Halifax though. You can self-refer if you are in Halifax to the Mental Health Day Treatment Program at the Abbie Lane Hospital (part of the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre) - did 6 weeks there as a...
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    Minceymeatpie's Mental Imagery

    This is an imaginery journey down a road. Take in the sights, sounds and colours, just like a video camera recording all that lies surrounding you. Survey the scene, noticing whatis far off in the distance, the background surrounds, the weather, the season and a total image of what you view...
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    Stress, Anxiety And Sleep

    Stress, anxiety, weight, sleep and depression are interconnected, I agree... Stress and anxiety lead to poor sleep both in quality and quantity, which can lead you to become more stressed and anxious about not being able to sleep. The insomniac's vicious cycle... Depression can also lead to...
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    Married, Friends Yet Still Feel Alone

    I can relate. You know the old cliche about being surrounded by people yet lonely and being alone yet not lonely... Feeling like a bystander in your own life is also familiar to me and depression really makes it worse because that can complete the vicious cycle if I start to be alone, thus...
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    Trauma? What Trauma?

    So I don't know if anyone can relate to this but... One of the biggest struggles for me is that I can't call what happened in my life as "trauma", even though rationally if it happened to someone else I would. There is that disconnect. When I was in therapy I wouldn't let my dr use certain...
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    Helper All Helped Out

    I just feel like ranting a bit... I am a helper. It is my calling, my profession, my job... I'm sure those of you who are EMTs or police officers or firefighters can relate. The funny thing is, I'm not really sure how helping I can be when I am so often not even "there". I started off in...
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    Greetings - Young Doctor With PTSD

    Hello. I'm a young physician in my 20s who has no idea how to heal herself. After years of medical school and residency, you would think I could do better but unfortunately not. It is fairly ironic that I am a physician because I avoid physicians like the plague. The way I see it, if I went...
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