Posts Tagged ‘ Michele’s Story ’

Why I Believe Psychotherapy Is An Integral Part of PTSD Treatment

Friday, April 10th, 2009

To follow is an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Parasites of the Mind: A Memoir of Trauma, Survival, Identity and the Pursuit of Joy. This portion chronicles my beginning psychotherapy.…

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25 Things About My PTSD

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

My friend over at Catatonic Kid tagged me with a meme: ‘25 Things About You’. Usually, I don’t play the tag game, but I thought it might be fun to…

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PTSD & Anger, Part 4: The Psychology of Anger

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

In my own experience I’ve found two dominant sides to the psychology of anger coin: Fear, and motivation.
First, I have to apologize to my mother. I do …apologize to

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PTSD & Anger, Part 2: Why Are We So Angry?

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

( First off, let me say for those of you who have not scrolled down and found the picture of me, this picture here is NOT me!)
Getting to today’s…

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PTSD & Anger, Part 1: When We Hate Happy People

Monday, December 15th, 2008

There’s been a big debate in one of the PTSD online support groups in which I participate. It all started around the Thanksgiving holiday. It began like this: S. asked,…

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