ptsd
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; The storm after the storm.
How to Deal With Your Loved One Who Has PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that is triggered by a traumatic event that can be instantaneous, or it can be delayed up to three months. People of all ages can get PTSD. When you are in a stressful event, your nervous system reacts with a fight-or flight response. Your heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, muscles tighten which increases your strength and reaction time. When all danger is gone, your nervous system calms your heart rate, and blood pressure to a normal state.
By Catharine Parks5 years ago in Psyche
Sexualizing a Rape Victim
I think one of the hardest things that I've learned as a female who has been a victim of rape is that most people think that we are some sort of kinky sex craved women who are willing to put out at any point. When we say no, the person believes we really mean yes. No, it's just a 2-letter word, what people don't understand is that I did not consent to being raped. I said no multiple times, I tried to fight the person who is raping me and get away from the situation, but by the end you lay there a dead body that somebody is having sex with. Being raped it has altered my thoughts on myself, my body and even the right to say no. It is our human right to say no to any unwanted physical contact from another human. We can choose whom we lay down, and get naked for, victims of sexual assault don't seem to have that right. We are placed in a judgement of “she must be easy, she’s a rape victim’ Once you have been raped or you admit that you have been raped you are placed in this box, you're damaged goods. Or at least people make you feel that way. You wear a sign that says I allowed somebody to take advantage of my body so can you. At least this is what it seems like I’ve had to encounter.
By Moon Child 5 years ago in Psyche
Neglectful birth
The day started like any other day. I was 9 months pregnant, My due date was October 7th, 2019. I was super stoked, for this was a new relationship, a new beginning which I hoped would bring our blended family and my new partner closer together. I woke up the morning of October 3rd and tried to get ready for the day since I had a doctor's appointment at 8:00 a.m. and two other children to drop off.
By Brandy Lento5 years ago in Psyche
PTSD
The darkness was healing. Not being able to see anything around me, being able to enter a state of imaginary beings and happy thoughts. Unicorns and rainbows, future goals and thrilling travels. As I’d get lost in my imaginary world, reality would creep in when I’d snap back by a pull or a tug or the haunting scent of drugs I despise till this day. An eight year old child. Who goes through that? I’d often find myself wondering.
By SomethingAnonymous5 years ago in Psyche
Pseudomutuality
I never realized the amount of damage all the emotional and psychological abuse I was suffering from by my narcissistic mother until I got into another situation recently with someone who I thought was a good friend but who turned out to be equally as damaging as all the other addicts, narcissists, psychopaths and sociopaths I have encountered throughout my life.
By Dana Toliver5 years ago in Psyche
MY PTSD DIAGNOSIS
My name is Courtney. I am 33 years old and have struggled to cope with my mental health since first diagnosed with major depressive disorder at age 19. If i look back at those years since that diagnosis, I see a tangled mess of emotional roller coasters, confusion, tears, anger and a mountain of stress piled on top of Mum and Dad for having to 'deal' with my chaotic life and poor decisions I have continued to make up until this day. I have an endless list of counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists and doctors who I have worked with, the majority I have not liked or bonded with other than 2 out of almost 20 names on that list. Rarely anything that was taught to me made any such difference to my mental well-being, and if there was anything gained it was merely a band-aid solution, holding me together until an unexpected life hurdle is thrown my way, then all of the teachings are forgotten, I get trapped in my emotions and remembering the practices of mindfulness are no use to me when my state of mind is triggered into an unsafe state, and in the few times mindfulness has come to mind, I can't remember a thing about it no matter how hard i try.
By Courts of Course5 years ago in Psyche
What Are The Symptoms Of Agoraphobia?
Agoraphobia is a schizoaffective thing, since you feel like everybody is watching you, thinking negative things about you, and talking about you in general. This is merely a schizoaffective symptom that gets way better with medication, not to mention getting your head out of your hat. Agoraphobia is a thing, it makes people not feel well, it makes one paranoid, and only because it is the way it is. I also have anxiety and such; because I have multiple anxiety disorders give or take the way my body is built. I have PTSD, OCD, and generalized anxiety. I may feel well enough to do occupational therapy Zoom groups just in case.
By Iria Vasquez-Paez5 years ago in Psyche
