Thursday, February 18, 2010
MRI
MRI results are in... apparently everything is where and as it is supposed to be... Happy to report no alien appliances anywhere in sight. Worries as they so often do, lead to anticlimactic sense of good news. Funny how that works... the anticlimax is, of course, an illusion: that the news is good, is in fact good news. Thanks to you all who gave support when a happy outcome was not so certain! Apparently all your blessings and good vibes cured the tumah, evaporated the alien implant, and healed...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
More on Complex PTSD
Since writing about PTSD last week, and more specifically, about C-PTSD, I have done some further reading. I had only just discovered in researching for that post, the description of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. and saw it was relevant and more specific to my own life. Today I found this article by Pete Walker which gives the most complete and coherent picture yet: http://www.pete-walker.com/managingAbandonDepression.htm It is not a short piece, but it is worth giving some time....
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Strange science
It is a narrow lie-down hardly to be called any sort of bed... about as accomodating as the standard airline seat. It includes pillow, and blanket, upon request, and though there is no in-flight refreshment, it is a short hop from start to finish. Maybe 30 minutes. They encourage you in many ways to remain very very still... "be a tree..." and give you earplugs. A helm-like mask comes over your head, and if you are at all claustrophobic, this is when you begin to consider doing this another...
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Off to get my head examined... After some months of odd moments of loss of balance, and occasional experiencing of that kind of muted roaring one gets standing up too fast, or just before fainting--but in this case, just walking around, and for longer than the usual passing moment... And sudden sharp headaches on one side, at sudden inconvenient moments... Today I go in for an MRI, which will probably determine there is nothing wrong, nothing to get excited about, just get a proper shoulder-rub...
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Being Human... in spite of it all...
Recently the topic PTSD came up. Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-- a disorder with profound emotional and physiological implications that affects individuals who have experienced sudden or prolonged trauma--is most associated with victims of disaster, general or personal. "Trauma" generally is understood to be a sudden, pivotal event, but it can also be a persistant and long-term experience of helplessness in the face of imminent threat of death or serious injury. It is about perception,...
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