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Though for different causes, it is hard for me to go outside too. Humming stimulates the ventral vagus nerve - part of the parasympathetic nervous system which helps one calm down. This reminds me I'd better practice what I preach and go for a walk - Hope this helps.

I've done EMDR with my T a couple of times and I, too, find it exhilarating in the short-term yet it takes me a couple days to regain full cognitive focus afterwards. I've not been diagnosed with DID, yet my T and I only do the EMDR when I'm highly grounded and centered so I have enough...

Ballet class! There I feel safe and the instructor and fellow students know I have PTSD and are okay when I have an emotional release and start to sob. 😊 However, my general practitioner (doctor) told me that my bad cholesterol is too high and I needed to get my heart rate up so-high for...

Terry Gilliam

As Jesus will separate all of us as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, I highly doubt denomination will be on His mind at that time.

In reading others' posts, on one side I'm glad I'm not alone and on the other side I'm sad that there are other artists out there who struggle as I do (and we haven't even touched upon our respective PTSD issues). I'm glad y'all are showing up for the process, particularly when it's messy...

Re: Social Gathering Avoidance - I have to admit I've rather enjoyed avoiding social gatherings due to COVID-19 and the social distancing was rather refreshing. As far as meeting with my family of origin, I, like many of you have found it horridly toxic and, with my T's advice, ceased contact...

An attorney who specializes in SSDI is, to me, an absolute necessity. In the state I'm in, there is a limit on how much an attorney can charge for representing your case and they get their fee from your retroactive SSDI benefits. I found the attorney fees well worth the investment. It's hard...

For all us Mad Inventors out there, this is what I'm listening to (and getting re-centered to).

I can see why when Jonathan Swift, when he wrote Gulliver's Travels made horses (Houyhnhnms) the most noble of beings Lemuel Gulliver met in his adventures. During my teenagerhood, a sibling had horses and I went along for many adventures. I had learned that geldings were gelded to make them...

Kind mindfulness promotes your slow breathing. LRNWSB

With my therapist's and general practitioner doctor, I've started taking taking 3 mg Melatonin and 25 mg 5-HTP an hour before bedtime. Previously, I'd had vivid dreams or nightmares every night, often waking up screaming and exhausted at about 4 AM and needing to sleep to recover from that...

One of the nice things I've found about living on a spherical, rotating planet is that even if I mess up in the middle of the day, SOMEWHERE on Earth it's morning and I can cash in on the mercies there. ;-) In a similar vein, as He has cast our sins as far as the East is from the West, I'm...

Friday, I REALLY like the way you use "I'm tired" lists as springboards for the next step forward. I can see why you're a moderator. You know your stuff and you communicate it well :-)

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I'm so glad Friday's post was helpful to you. (It was to me too). It's awful that in such times we're getting such piles of unseasoned fertilizer dumped on us, yet here we are, posting on MyPTSD, affirming and validating each others' experiences and getting a few chuckles along the way. Such...

Ultimately, rancid cucumbers help intestines, NOT! QTPWEL

The "cup" model has been very helpful to me. Thank you for sharing (and re-sharing) it. Through somatic therapy, I've been addressing my tendency toward dissociation and dysregulation and I'm discovering within myself a subjective "stress level indicator". This way I'm able (when I remember...

Thank you for writing this article. The lack of trigger warnings has been helpful to me as it encourages my personal awareness and autonomy. As part of my being abused consisted of others thinking for me and them expecting me to think for them, (e.g., I state a desire and then being told, "Oh...

Thank you for sharing this great song. I SO needed to hear it right now. Namaste, y'all!

Wow! I am so positively impressed by everyone's openness and okayness with going for extra-long and multiple sessions per week when times become especially difficult, whether the reason for them being so is known or not. For me, I've learned to "get the most bang for my buck" with my t by: 1)...

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll be sure to be in a safe place watching everyone else get triggered instead them watching me do so. ;-) Cheers!

I don't blame you one bit for blanket-bombing f-bombs. I'm actually glad for you in that it shows you've got a lot of fight in you instead of falling into despair and helplessness. I encourage you to direct your fighting spirit, not in blame toward yourself for not knowing what you didn't know...

For me, issues of control and safety are paramount; therefore, when going places I suspect could be triggering, (even service club meetings I've been attending for 10 years), I like to have an escape plan and path in mind ahead of time. I position myself in the room where I can make a discreet...

So true. The best counselors I've had are the ones who've gone through abuse themselves, received help, and gone forward to be able to help us.