mental-health

  • Trauma Response

    It’s been four months since the accident. Some things are better, some are the same, and time still marches on. The truck was totaled. Well, there was $18,000 worth of damage done to it, enough that the insurance said she was toast. Bye, Denver. You were an excellent truck, and my husband loved you dearly.

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  • Once Again….

    So, Friday the 16th of May, I had finally found the sideboard/buffet I wanted to replace the island in my kitchen that I frankly HATE. I had found one at our local Restore store. My elder son and I had found it a few days before, did the measuring thing, and then I had to

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  • Well, as the title suggests, I am back from my cruise. Actually I have been back for two long weeks. Also had my surgery last week. Well, almost 10 days ago. For those that haven’t been paying attention, it was a Radical Hysterectomy, including all the bits that make up a woman. Why? Endometrial Cancer.

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  • Dissertation: A long ass research paper based on the writing of other people and research that has, hopefully, been successfully completed. Usually containing a mind-numbing amount of pages littered with repeated references to other writing both seminal (meaning the ‘creators’ or ‘originators’ of certain fields or theories, in the case of Psychology names such as

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  • A Pallet Cleanser

    Now, I take no credit for the following, but I think it states, in words, what a lot of people feel, but don’t necessarily know how to put into words. “I don’t think that any of us planned for the things we’ve had to go through. Maybe that’s the whole point of living in the

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  • December 2011 Baby steps are often backwards… Ok, so I stated I was moving on. Well, moving on doesn’t always mean going forward. Especially in my case, it often seems to mean going backwards. Or sideways. Anyways… I am thinking about Curt, again today. Or possibly I should say still thinking about. See, I thought

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  • July 2011

    The hoarder house Point taken… So, I just slept for 16 hours straight. No, really, I did! Of course this is after being up for 36 hours and sleeping little the days before that. I just am not sleeping well. I go through periods like this where sleep is elusive. Why? Well, this resent bought

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  • April 2011

    *Note: I was someone that work with children with behavior issues. Specifically, foster children that were in their last ‘family home’ before being institutionalized. I like working with kids, and I can deal with all most all kids of behavior issues. But, the agency I worked for was the WORST! which is where this post

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