sentso  on "triggers":Today’s topic, children, is Triggers.

I see that word pop up in some (read: almost all) blogs I’ve been haunting lately. And when I say “pop up” I mean “the word appears more often than the comma in a paragraph.”

....Really? You turn into a fountain of tears because some zipperhead swatted your ass while at a concert? Invalidated your ( Read more... )

I've never hid that I've survived some awful shit, but I do refuse to be dehumanized as walking wounded and nothing more (see, in particular, list item 13 and those following it.)

I refuse to accept that my relationship with someone who loves me very much is a deformity.

That is all I have to say.

(And now I exhort those who can to read the good news ( Read more... )

This entry by not_in_denial is one of the best-written things I have ever read.

It's also one of the most triggering, so proceed with caution. If you can handle it, though, it's worth it.

In it, he talks about PTSD, flashbacks, and medical violation: what it's like, how it happens, and how it feels.

He describes something (from here on what I say may be ( Read more... )

Generals share their experience with PTSD (POSS TRIG)

Army generals aren't known for talking about their feelings.

But two high-ranking officers are doing just that, hoping that by going public they can remove the stigma that many soldiers say keeps them from getting help for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Brig. General Gary S. Patton and Gen. Carter ( Read more... )

Ren, saying something that needs to be said:
THERE-ARE-NO-UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCES. So yeah, since I am being scum anyway today…listen to me now and hear me later: Your life and experiences might have been pure hell, they sure sound as if they were, but you have no fucking write to name experiences for other women, or mock and dismiss how they ( Read more... )

Okay, so I had a... flashback, something, last night in the middle of the night, from this knee pain. (It appears I am actually fine now and just mildly injured. It just happened to trigger me godawfully.)

I want to document it. I tremble to document it. But I'm going to.

And I'm going to leave this post public, despite that I fear it makes me look ( Read more... )

I just read some really fascinating posts (not going to link them because, although I just stumbled upon them, having read them feels personal somehow) by a recover -- ing? ed? drug addict. And reading what he had to say about chasing numbness, I realized why, despite plenty of traumatic experiences in childhood and plenty of friends who used drugs ( Read more... )

At work today, I was working on a paper on PTSD and veterans, and looking over the diagnostic criteria.

It's been many years since my trauma, and even at the worst I don't think my symptoms were quite as horribly intrusive as they are for many. Most of them have lessened a lot over the many years, though all are still present to one degree or ( Read more... )

I wrote this post, and apparently it didn't show up, so here I am trying again.

Nota Bene: Though the comment of mine that I quote is still screened, I am not here accusing Demonista of not approving comments. It could easily be that she's out of town, ignoring LJ, etc. and therefore her flist's comments are showing up and not mine. So my beef here ( Read more... )

There's a big brouhaha going on in the blogoverse lately, based on a post by one Maggie Hays, anti-"pornstitution" feminist. So much has gone on regarding it that I can only touch on one tiny part of it, which I'll take you through now.

Ms. Hays has this comment about the agency of sex workers. See, it seems that when "sex-pos" people claim that ( Read more... )