Numbness To Pain In Arms - Articles
Sometimes my PTSD healing would ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Sometimes my PTSD healing would sail along: I’d go to therapy, do the talking thing, a little EMDR or EFT, or TFT, or TAT (do you have the feeling I’d try anything?!!), feel real proud of myself for being able to keep up with appointments and dig through the past according to what, how, when, and why my therapist thought I should.There ...
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Something truly extraordinary is ...
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Michele Rosenthal
Something truly extraordinary is happening. Jason Ream, a Navy Vet, and Mac McPherson, an Army vet, are teaming up to launch an incredible venture: OPERATION PTSD.Their mission: “Operation PTSD was founded … in order to help all of our Brothers and Sisters in Arms deal with their PTSD. Our mission is to curb the high rate of suicides, ...
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BRIDGE THE GAP Exercise:
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Michele Rosenthal
Yesterday I posted a great ‘PTSD Professional Perspective’ about the role of denial in stress. Denial is a big topic in PTSD - not one that we talk about but one that pervades a lot of our lives.Take for example, our traumatic memories: They are destructive and oppressive. We spend a lot of time trying to deny them, pretending they don& ...
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Topics for Everyone Topics for Combat Stress
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Michele Rosenthal
A busy week in inspiring PTSD news. First, I want to introduce you to a PTSD Desert Storm Navy vet who, with the help of a PTSD Operation Iraqi Freedom Army vet, is launching an incredible new project: Check outOperation PTSDfor some true healing inspiration. The official launch will be November 11th; for now, you can read about how one vet sees P ...
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Topics for Everyone Topics for Combat Stress
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Michele Rosenthal
Today’s the final day to submit to the Heal My PTSD, LLC, contest! Are you ready for a little healing action? Read the guidelineshereand then shoot me an email. The prize? A little something to help progress your PTSD feeling better quest.In the meantime, a slew of interesting topics this week, including the connection between stress and gast ...
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BRIDGE THE GAP Exercise
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Michele Rosenthal
In the comments to last week’s posts about belief (have you taken a look at what your fellow readers had to say? Lots of interesting ideas and perceptions here and here ) the topic of whom to believe was lightly touched on. I want to expand one idea that came up in the comments: the idea of how important the belief of the therapist is in you ...
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seeing the pain through mother's eyes
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KasondraI.
The journey has been hard for the entire family. Seeing your daughter's pain and knowing there is nothing you can do - nothing - is agonizing. You are mom - you are supposed to make everything ok, make your child feel safe, let them know you got it covered for them at least for a moment's rest. There is no rest in ED's mind and he torments the weak ...
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STRESS and a long run : )
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KasondraI.
StressA lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience, Raised a glass of water and asked 'How heavy is this glass of water?' Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter. It ...
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A very fast afternoon
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KasondraI.
So the fitness center went really well. I love the people i work with! i'm pretty discontent with the fast that i'm making $9 to work the front desk. it really doesn't seem worth it at all. i do want to be apart of the facility though. as you all know i am still applying for OT jobs . i'm hoping to eventually only do a day or 2 at the fitness cente ...
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what a day!
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KasondraI.
Jack wanted to say hi!! Today was a bit of a crazy day. it started with me waking up still in immense pain (very painful to walk) in my hip. i think from my coworker giving me a squat test. i haven't done squats in months. i decided to do 55 in 60 seconds! anyhoo no running or walking for me : ( it was a rainy icky day anyways so a good day to b ...
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