Upside Down Eagle
Diamond Member
I´ve been on the forum a while now.
Five years and two months to be precise. When I joined, I was 23. Now I´m nearing the big three-o. Big difference. Many, many things happened during that time. Among which:
- I dropped out of university due to PTSD
- I took my first motorized flight lesson, in a Grob
- I lived in isolation and had one of the worst PTSD episodes ever, lasted 5+ months
- Moved to a fantastic city, where arts and cultures prevail
- Joined a glider club and learned how to be a pilot. Made 120+ flights
- Came out of the closet as transgender
Wheeeew! What a ride.
My experience with PTSD is that it wanes and rises. Like the tide. Sometimes you think it´s gone, sometimes you think it will never end. Personally my experience also has been that hormones have a tremendous impact on mental illness (and that unbalanced hormones can exacerbate problems).
Through all this turmoil I have been on and off the forum, sometimes as a teacher and sometimes as a student, and have come to regard the forum as a community of kindred spirits, who all struggle and yet they try hard to inspire positivism in others.
You guys are all heroes in your own ways. Whether religious or not, you all inspire light in the hearts of others. You may not feel it, not in this moment and perhaps not tomorrow, but your ability to extend it certainly means that you carry a light within yourself.
Much respect.
Kida! (Bow, in Hebrew).
Five years and two months to be precise. When I joined, I was 23. Now I´m nearing the big three-o. Big difference. Many, many things happened during that time. Among which:
- I dropped out of university due to PTSD
- I took my first motorized flight lesson, in a Grob
- I lived in isolation and had one of the worst PTSD episodes ever, lasted 5+ months
- Moved to a fantastic city, where arts and cultures prevail
- Joined a glider club and learned how to be a pilot. Made 120+ flights
- Came out of the closet as transgender
Wheeeew! What a ride.
My experience with PTSD is that it wanes and rises. Like the tide. Sometimes you think it´s gone, sometimes you think it will never end. Personally my experience also has been that hormones have a tremendous impact on mental illness (and that unbalanced hormones can exacerbate problems).
Through all this turmoil I have been on and off the forum, sometimes as a teacher and sometimes as a student, and have come to regard the forum as a community of kindred spirits, who all struggle and yet they try hard to inspire positivism in others.
You guys are all heroes in your own ways. Whether religious or not, you all inspire light in the hearts of others. You may not feel it, not in this moment and perhaps not tomorrow, but your ability to extend it certainly means that you carry a light within yourself.
Much respect.
Kida! (Bow, in Hebrew).
