What Makes You Angry Today?

[Jimmy1]

Dan, I know a lot of people who used to think I was such a funny guy who did not give a shit about all the troubles in the world and found the funny side to everything. The only problem was that person was a stoner.

Jar is right, and don't worry the stress will pass, but memory is a bad side of PTSD. I can go to the shopping centre to get milk and come home with something totally different. lol.

We have a huge whiteboard with all our appointments on it and I have post it notes everywhere. So what.

Don't get angry over it. I was looking everywhere for my glasses the other day and got so pissed off. When my wife came home I told her I must have left them at the shops somewhere and would have to get some new ones.
She found them in the fridge.

 

[Spock]

I wrote about Luminosity but believe Sludge knew a little about it and thinks it is more marketing than useful. I have heard that it is good to engage shows or others with opposing opinions and it can help against Alz.

 

[vikingr12]

I agree, Spock. There are studies that show it both ways but I think even games help. One psychiatrist swears by ping pong and studies prove him right. It may not stop dementia but it slows it down at least.

 

[Spock]

Crossword puzzles too...(someone mentioned that: Jar/Sarg?)

 

[Sleeping Dragon]

Lee C,

Thanks for the laugh. I needed it. Tough day. The Dragon kicked my butt. I'm getting too old for this crap.

Sleeping Dragon

 

[Sarg]

She found them in the fridge.

Now, THAT is one place I've yet to lose anything. Could however be the fact that everything in my fridge has a green-grey mold on it that differentiates it from anything of this earth. Sludge would have a field day in my fridge, not to mention the thing that moves around and growls under the bed.

Sarg

 

[JarHed]

I posted a while ago about the site www.Lumosity.com . Great way to help your memory. Just like all things you have to work it to keep it pliable. And as far as writing things down, I've always made and worked with lists, always. When I was a construction manager I lived by the list. When you have literally 100's of thing to do and keep track of there's no other way. I feel that it frees the mind to think of other things. It gives you a framework to refer to.

Best thing to do for your brain is to take a nice walk. Gets the blood circulating and in general makes you feel better and like you accomplished something. Small goals build to greater and greater things. And worry is the interest we pay on problems that aren't due yet.

 

[Spock]

When you have literally 100's of thing to do and keep track of there's no other way. I feel that it frees the mind to think of other things. It gives you a framework to refer to.

Free your brain! Well put...

 

[Sarg]

Free your brain!

Dammit, I JUST CAUGHT THE DAMN THING! And you want me to free it!

Sarg

 

[combatgoldfish]

My bitch for the day:

Women.

I think I'm a magnet for damaged women. Perhaps they see how f*cked up I am and assume I need more stress in my life.

I spent far too long in a decade long relationship that I couldn't manage to walk away from and my PTSD finally killed that one off.

My rebound relationship landed me one hell of a winner. A younger woman with a bipolar disorder. I felt like a little boy bringing home a wounded animal trying to nurse it back to health. Then after being bit said "f*ck this" and throwing it back into to the wild, hopefully to follow through with dying.

Onto the next women, f*ck it, I'm strong right? Found one just when I was ready to quit and enjoy live as a hermit crab. I felt in love. Weird... I thought I was a heartless, numb, disgruntle veteran. I felt like I was twenty again. Yes, there was a lot of PTSD kicking at me but I started to have glimmers of emotions peaking through.

Guess what? I have another wounded animal. This one with anxiety issues (which I don't mind, hell, makes me feel a bit more normal with all mine) and major trust issues. Those trust issues being the fact she's unable to trust a man won't abandon her or be faithful. I've got my own trust issues but these blow mine out of the water. Obsessive compulsive when it comes to constantly checking on me, who am I talking to, where am I going, what's this, what's that, etc.

Sometimes you accidentally stumble into someone's skeleton closet. But you don't expect them to out numbers yours and bury you.

Time for me to go back to therapy. I'm long overdue!

 

[JarHed]

Time for me to go back to therapy. I'm long overdue!

Hey Fish

That's a good start for sure. What you've said has an amazing ring of truth to it. I have a friend, she's pretty, smart, talented all the things that any nice guy would want to be with. Yet she always seem to pick abusive guys. Ones that treat her badly and often are abusive physically. She seems to be drawn to them for a reason even she didn't know until she started therapy. She's better now in her choice of male friends.

It may be like that for you. Can't say for sure and just giving an example here. Perhaps therapy will help you find what the reason is. No relationship is perfect but everyone deserves a good one. Sometimes you have to work to make it so. There's probably a reason that you're drawn to these types of women like a moth to a flame. Hope you find out why.

Jar

 

[Chin Strapped]

Man down for 2 days, self inflicted via booze. When will I learn, very rarely do I drink and when I do I'm a health hazard. Very pissed at myself and battling serious blues. I can't even concentrate to responed to posts (probably a good thing!). Next time I get the urge I'll try remember this feeling; stupid twat.