Monthly Archives: June 2015

April 4, 1968

I wrote this in 1968, while I was living with Fred.  It’s undated in my journal I don’t know where to start.  It seemed as though the volcano was going to blow last night.  I wanted to smash a window … Continue reading

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“This is the Work for Now”

Dialogue between Jenny of now and Jenny in the hospital.  I was afraid the hospital Jenny would be uncomfortable with her much older self, and even with almost any adult.  I decided to be a “Great Aunt,” and couldn’t find … Continue reading

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Darkness Before Dawn

One of the chapters in Darkness Before Dawn spoke so well to me that I marked a lot of passages.  It’s called “Into the Dark Light” by Elizabeth Rabia Roberts. She says “any loss that strips away the identity you … Continue reading

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Depression

I’ve been struggling with depression for about a month.  It’s the first time I’ve been depressed in a long time.  This is what I wrote this morning. Woke up terrified with a bad headache.  I haven’t had this hard a … Continue reading

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Tough Going

Pain.  “What you feel you can heal” The session with Erica was filled with so much pain.  I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much except maybe long ago when I splashed pain all over my journals.  Writhed with it, … Continue reading

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What it’s Like to Live with PTSD

It’s sunny and beautiful out, and I can’t bear it.  It’s a day to go out and enjoy the world, and I just want to hide.  Yesterday was so much easier, it was grey with drizzly rain. Now I understand … Continue reading

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Trying to Love Myself

This came on the Daily Good: Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit … Continue reading

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Need Cheering Up?

I’m feeling blue and need some cheering up.  The Daily Good today sent Matt Dancing.  How could I forget about Matt? Matt dancing in 2008 Words to song: The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and … Continue reading

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Mother’s Day

I haven’t posted anything in a long time because I’ve been having such a bad time.  I still don’t understand what’s going on well enough to talk about it.  I haven’t the faintest idea how to heal the gap that’s … Continue reading

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Depression in Reaction to Feeling Good

I wrote this paragraph for a group called Patients Like Me, writing it for other people dealing with PTSD. The worst thing about PTSD for me is to be where I am now: Technically called hypoarousal, it also means depressed … Continue reading

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