Tonight, Art Garfunkel was a guest on a British talk programme. As part of the preparation for his visit, the programme staff recorded lots of people they met on city streets, asking them to sing... Click this link to watch a video dealing with fibromyalgia, ME, CFS, and similar illnesses: http://www.sleepydust.net/me-cfs-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-video.html    

I recently seem to have lost a friend because the friend was unable to recognise and accept the circumstances of my current life challenges and difficulties. Whatever I said was picked apart, and I...our hearts to each other.     Click this link to play video dealing with fibromyalgia, ME, and similar illnesses:  

i don't know if this is the proper forum, but I suppose if related to ptsd/panic/anxiety, then it is. i'm in an incredibly deep depression right now. i don't know if many of you saw my post late last...depressed? i need to get up out of this a bit in order to handle classes and work. thank you, in advance. OT: i've noticed i rarely capitalize when needed.. weird. only in LJ, though, haha

Education State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, NY Master's of Social Work Concentration: Alcohol & Other Drug Treatment University of Maine Orono, ME Bachelor of Arts in Sociology Professional... ME 04401 My telephone number is:                      207-944-1849          E-mail: indieshell@yahoo.com

trauma/Post-traumatic stress disorder http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/DS00246 http://www.trauma-pages.com/ Physical, emotional, verbal, sexual abuse ...mayoclinic.com/health/alcohol-use/MH00123 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/drug-addiction/DS00183 Co-occurring substance use and mental health challenges http://www.ccsme.org/index.htm

Seeking Safety is a model designed to assist individuals with co-occurring trauma/PTSD and substance use challenges. The goals of this group will be to establish safety and safe coping strategies to... use of safe coping skills to manage trauma and substance use, skills to detach from emotional pain, identifying & managing triggers, self-care, setting boundaries in relationships, asking for help, etc

A breakup.  A failed business.  Bankruptcy. A lot of people go through experiences more traumatic than these and seem to recover just fine.  Illness, death, accidents, rape, murder, wrongful imprisonment...he heard music, because his mind equated music with the sirens he heard after he was shot. C'mon, Josh, it was only a collapsed lung and a rupture pulmonary artery. Don't be such a pussy!  

At the station. Yep, on a Saturday. First weekend in a while with no craziness planned out ahead of time, so came in to work while it was nice and quiet (and EMPTY) to do some editing on my *massive* PTSD project...or something. If anyone wants to go to Pho Number One tomorrow, hit me up! It's been waaay too long since I ate there. It's been over a week and I'm *craving* their Pho Dac Biet, somethin' fierce!

My budgie, Ollie, has a toy I gave him that he finds really exciting. It's a plastic box thing that hangs from a chain in his cage. At the top is a small mirror (Budgies are irresistibly drawn to mirrors...May it guide you and surround you, and flow outward from you like sound waves, like circular ripples in the stream of life.   And, by the way, I LOVE YOU , too.  

I am reminded again and again of how impossible it seems to people in the mainstream of life, that a normal, healthy person can have her entire inner and outer reality, functioning personality, and...about it instead of berating myself for not doing more, or hearing the voice of my abuser/accuser/critic in my head, making me feel like nothing I could do would be good enough or win approval.