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 ]
On April 2, 2019 at 6PM at the Marriot Hotel in Coral Springs their will be a gathering of those affected by the trauma of Parkland tragedy. The community is invited to JOIN US.There will be informative information available including people who have been directly and indirectly effected from Colorado, Oklahoma, 9/11, Las Vegas, Parkland and all the other places...[ read more ]
The news is grim. I just learned that another young person committed suicide secondary to the Parkland incident last year. It just reminds me that the initial problem of the shootings was not the end. The capture of the shooter, the marches, the recriminations of who was at fault, who should have done something and how come we didn’t do...[ read more ]
One of the most important but neglected areas for all of us, babies, children, adolescents, adults and elders, is sleep. We all crave it, but many of us get little of it. Believe it or not, sleep is even better than sex. While sex increases our serotonin level and makes us feel good, sleep allows our body to replenish and...[ read more ]
People with ADHD are often confused with those with PTSD. YES, it is possible to have both, however it is more than likely that a person will have one or the other. So many may ask what are the similarities and what are the differences. In ADHD, many have: Inattention, Distraction, Restlessness, Impatience, Impulsivity, Anger, Sleeping Problems, Poor Memory, Poor Concentration,...[ read more ]
