Today, many people are considering what it means to re-enter the world after putting their lives on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic. Veterans and active military members are also familiar with the tumultuous process of re-entering society. Many men and women in the military struggle with their mental health and career decisions during this transition period, and services like PTSD...[ read more ]
My son called me on Sunday morning, to let me know that a good friend had just died from a drug overdose. I knew the young man since he was 4 years old, and now he would have been 42. I know his parents, his sister, his aunt and uncle, his cousins and I knew his grandparents. He was a...[ read more ]
George Lindenfeld1*, George Rozelle2, John Hummer3, Michael R. Sutherland4, and James C. Miller Abstract The post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) condition is a systemic neuro inflammatory state that emanates from a failure to recover from traumatic occurrence(s). Major complications associated with PTSD include problems with impulse control and issues related to verbal and physical outbursts of anger and rage. The...[ read more ]
I just read a good quote from ADHD and Marriage (1) that I wanted to share: “Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you think they should doesn’t mean they don’t love you with everything they have.” While it is easy to negate how people feel because they don’t feel the way you would like, that doesn’t mean that...[ read more ]
Memorial Day is the day that we honor all the servicemen who died while trying to protect this country. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971. It should be a day when our entire country just meditates over all the dead and all the wars...[ read more ]
I just read an article on Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria. So what does it mean? “In my case, it means that I have an extremely difficult time taking any type of criticism whatsoever.” (1) It means that when someone says one thing, I am thinking another. If I do something that I think may be nice, at some point it turns into...[ read more ]
On Television Last Night Last night, April 24, 2019 I was watching The Seal Team on TV and rather than being entertained, I was very aggravated. It presented a former Seal team member as having PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and other ailments. The member went with a friend to the local VA to get help. When they went in,...[ read more ]
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a serious, family-straining condition often associated with violent outbursts, persistent disobedience, and school expulsions. Parents complain, “he was aggressive and violent. He’d lash out, and he’d hit me and his sister. He’d make holes in the wall. He refused to go to school most days, forcing his father to drag him to the car in...[ read more ]
I just read this article about a young 23 year old Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin who killed herself. She had said that she felt her mind slipping; she could not focus on her schoolwork at Stanford, where she was a first-year graduate student in computational mathematics. She said her thoughts were “never-ending, spinning, spinning, spinning” as if they were “never...[ read more ]
Why Am I Always Late? Time management is a big problem for people with ADHD and some with PTSD. Everyone is late sometimes, but many with ADD/HD run behind schedule more frequently. They are late to meetings, appointments with friends, picking up the kids, and everything else. They don’t want to be disrespectful or inconsiderate, but what else are you...[ read more ]
