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There are two main topics around here, writing and mental health. There is no wrong door, so feel free to explore, comment and enjoy.

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I have a new post at the CPTSD Foundation

CPTSD – the Thief of Time

From Thinking Too Loud

What is Complex-PTSD (CPTSD)

Definition of C-PTSD


Complex post – traumatic stress disorder is a psychological disorder that can develop in response to prolonged, repeated experience of trauma in a context where the individual has little or no chance of escape.

Honestly, I can’t remember if these are my words or not. Please tell me if they are yours.

That is the clinical definition of Complex-PTSD. Other resources will explain C-PTSD as a form of PTSD that has other overlying factors. The two can be easily confused if you don’t start with the definition. The definition above holds some key phrases. Continue

The Thinking Read

Scattered

As children we were blown apart. Now we seek to draw those parts together.

Just a quick dive by to say – “No, I haven’t shuffled off this mortal coil.” Nor have I shuffled off to Buffalo.
My brain is so scattered today. I opened the computer to post this – and ended up ordering 400 page dividers.

If you can figure that out… tell me. Please.
That was just a weird one. Continue

Thinking Too Loud: A Little Victory Over CPTSD

selective focus photography of assorted color stars
Photo by Jess Bailey Designs on Pexels.com

I didn’t have a migraine last night.
Read that sentence again because I’m going to explain WHY? that is a big deal. Ready?

One of the symptoms of my Complex PTSD, since I was 12 perhaps, has been debilitating blinding headaches. I could expect expect 3-4 nights out of the year that I would spend sleeping on the bathroom floor. Continue

New Haiku

Haiku: Down, down the black hole. I fall, curled about myself. To the dark, the deep.

Writing

I am finally bending to heads wiser than my own and developing this page as my presence as an author on the internet…
along with how many other millions of people.

Congratulations on finding me.

The Thinking Read is my blog for my non-mental health topics.

Essays, Stories, 100 words and more are available from the Writing Index.

Complex PTSD

On the mental health side of things, some of you may know me by my writing on Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) at ThinkingTooLoud.org.

I have no plans to quit blogging over there. But, like almost everything in my life, it’s a wait and see.

Intentions, road to Hell and all that.

For more information on CPTSD, memes, and resources see the Mental Health Index. My blog ThinkingTooLoud is now here.

My Book — Unhomed

Seeing as how I already mentioned it. I wrote a book.
Then I wrote another one.
Another one followed that. So now I had three.
Oops, make that four.

I’m deep in the querying trenches. Here’s to finding a publisher or agent who can fall in love with a book with a neurotypical MC, an Eastern European like setting, intrigue, betrayal, and, of course, a few dragons.