ptsdwellbeing

Set boundaries. Protect your well being as bets you can. The pain never goes away. But what else can you do? If you go into a crowded place, always have an escape plan just in case. Protect your well being.

A long day of fighting symptoms and to not let your guard down. I know other trauma survivors who one minute were relatively stable. Then they let their guard down and the pain was too much for them. Would I kill myself? No. But that danger is always there. There is no cure for PTSD. Like any incurable condition, you try and protect yourself as best you can. Protect yourself.

Setting boundaries and trying not to relapse. Every time addicts do, the pain is twice as bad as before. In my case, dissociating was like an addiction. It was a way to escape pain, or so you thought. Instead, it just made pain worse. Set boundaries and protect your well being as best you can. Because you have to.

Just how hot is it in your part of the world? Here, the average is 98F. But with the heat index, try 110F. Feel free to covert to metrics at any time. The pain is always there. Symptoms never go away. On bad days you fee like you can barely walk. You try walking up stairs or a hill and you really have to focus. It's a combination of the heat and trauma pain. But what else can you do but try to protect yourself. Here in the States many right wing politicians are trying to completely destroy health care. What they really want is only the best health care money can buy for rich and powerful right wing whites. If you're anything else, nobody owes you anything. Especially the government. If you get sick and don't have health coverage, just die. And what's even more bizarre about this is that these people actually believe this. In other civilized countries, health care is a human right. In two month, my sister is moving to France. Is she emigrating permenantly? I have n...

Another day of fighting symptoms. Pain is still there in many ways. But you try to keep some sense of being grounded and to protect yourself. Don't let your guard down.

Backed up trauma pain is flooding out in lots of ways. Arthritic pain is really severe in my lower back. It really hurts to walk. Then again it will flood out. Whether you like it or not. Protect yourself.

When we were recently out of town, we went to eat lunch. I accidentally had a triggering food. Walking back to the hotel, for a split second I thought I'll go back to my room, kill myself. And I'm not afraid. Then I fought really hard to not give into that. That won't let us escape pain. We don't have a death wish. But those thoughts still happen. Protect yourself.