Tag: post traumatic stress disorder
Not-so-good night: Rantings on sleep terrors
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I am 33, yes but I still have sleep terrors. The kind of sleep terrors that shove you unexpectedly into fight or flight mode, leaving you filled with sheer dread. It is a kind of terror I can only try to describe. But you never forget it. even if you\’ve…
Waiting to Fly
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I was listening to Lana Del Rey’s I Can Fly, and it elicited something in me. She sings ‘You had me caged up like a bird in the summer….I was waiting to fly…’ I imagined the ‘You’ in her song as the depression and complex PTSD stifling me, tying my…
Seeking courage
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Courage (noun) The ability to do something that frightens one; Strength in the face of pain or grief − Oxford Dictionary Where does it come from? Everyone keeps saying not to give up, to keep trying, persevering… Why give up when one has fought so hard to reach…
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