How an Entrepreneur Lives, Works & Tries to Play Post-Trauma
I moved my grandma into a nursing home today. While she moved voluntarily, it was not without a lot of fear and upset on her part and sadness on mine. She needs full time care and I and my family are not able to provide that any longer, except through a residential care situation. It…
I’ve been pushed to my limit so many times in the last few years, and have thought I would break more times than I can count. I honestly don’t know how I haven’t. The hard thing about being pushed to or past our limit is that we often don’t know where the limit is. It…
Numbing is the masking, ignoring or avoidance of feelings. It’s very common for people who experience PTSD, and it come in a lot of different forms. Numbing – for me that looked like workaholism – is how we cope when we cannot bear how we feel. I had PTSD for about two years before I was…
I’m traveling a lot for work this week, not sleeping much and still getting dozens of emails, notifications and phone calls. I’m irritable, to say the least, and as much as I would love to cut loose and enjoy the opportunities before me, that whole PTSD thing isn’t really accommodating me. I almost got pulled…
Sometimes you do what you gotta do to cope. I have a friend who is a kid’s musician as part of his musician profession. I don’t even know how or when we met, we just know each other, and a while back I ran into him at regional event that relates to my work. He…
I decided to go to a 90s/00s dance party fitness class last night. It sounded fun, I knew people who were going, and I felt that I was prepared to be aware of how I felt and not overexert myself. I had a great time, got a good workout in, and made it home to…
Relationships with PTSD are hard. My brain reads so many things as a threat, including many personal interactions. It makes most of my relationships very difficult, and I have spent a lot of time being cold, aloof and out of contact for periods of time that vary with the severity of my symptoms. I can…
