{"id":4754,"date":"2015-06-01T13:31:41","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T17:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2024-01-01T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T00:27:18","slug":"depression-in-reaction-to-feeling-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=4754","title":{"rendered":"Depression in Reaction to Feeling Good"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this paragraph for a group called Patients Like Me<\/a>, writing it for other people dealing with PTSD.<\/p>\n

The worst thing about PTSD for me is to be where I am now: Technically called hypoarousal, it also means depressed and numb.\u00a0 The numbness is my brain and nervous system\u2019s mechanism for saving me from overload.\u00a0 I can barely get through the day.\u00a0 There are other things I need to do, like find someone to prescribe medication \u2014 my regular person is on emergency medical leave.\u00a0 I have to find out why my application for Medicare B seems to have gone into the void.\u00a0 Trying to jump through the hoops of the bureaucracy is too difficult.\u00a0 This is why so many Veterans are in homeless shelters.\u00a0 I\u2019m not a Veteran \u2014 not of a foreign war \u2014 though I could say I\u2019m a veteran of a domestic war:\u00a0 I was traumatized in infancy.<\/p>\n

Nancy Napier<\/a> explains that this is in reaction to having felt good about myself<\/a> recently.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we\u2019ve been hurt as children, it\u2019s not unusual to have parts of us that guard against hope. … Disowned parts of us fight back with messages that say we don\u2019t deserve good things, that good only turns into bad in the end, and who do we think we are anyway?\u201d\u00a0 Getting through the Day, pp19-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-depression","category-present-day","category-trauma","category-work-with-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}