I can tell it is January because I am spending a certain amount of time giving people tips for handling their first campus interviews. Mostly what I am telling them is to calm down. If there is anything they forget to ask now, they will have a chance to ask it later.
I am good at calming people down because since Reeducation I am beset by anxiety, nightmares, and flashbacks whenever I am as close to the scene of the crime, so to speak, as I am here. Last summer I finally discovered, after years of experiments by trial and error, what the logical errors of Reeducation were. I then developed many exercises to beat these phantoms back.
The exercises work on my mind, but not on my body, which is only free of phantoms if engaged full time in a demanding outdoor activity such as rock climbing, fishing, or construction. This why I have finally decided I really do have PTSD. I think I shall go get an official diagnosis and drugs for it. Perhaps I shall see a homeopath.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Dont get strong drugs.
I consider that I also have mild PTSD.
I take ginkgo biloba — two or three tablets with a meal, when I am feeling stressed.
Interesting – it does not seem to affect me. Now I have bought kava kava. I will definitely not get strong drugs or anything which stays in one’s system. ! I feel far better now that I have crowned myself with this diagnosis. Naming it helps scare the symptoms away, it seems … it is far less stressful to just name it, I seem to note.
Greetings to all from New Orleans where it feels very elegant.
kavakava can be bad for your kidneys, I think.
Ah, gee.
I’ve been talking to someone who personally knew Marechera.
“I simply remember him as an unpleasant person and that other students, black and white, also found him tediously difficult.”
There is a medication called neurontin. It was invented for seizures. The side effects are that it helps relieve pain, and elevates mood. Much safer than anti-depressants.
I take B complex 100. From what I understand, “stress” eats B vitamins and much of what we experience as anxiety et al is various B deficiencies. It seems true in my case. Of course, I also have mental exercises (as you do). I think the two support each other. And I drink Sleepytime Extra (with Valerian) just before bed when I’m feeling wired. I have also moved from coffee to green tea, only drinking coffee occasionally.
I take ginko for persistent ringing in my ears. It helps a little, maybe. I’m nervous right now because I may have lost my backpack containing all my ID and my cell phone. Try that for stress!
i have this also – PTSD – from finding a friend of mine dead in his house – he had been there a day in the heat..
i found that valarian root really helps me at night to keep the nightmares abay…
and i relearned visualization…good luck – hugs
Hattie – good luck finding your backpack!!! Jennifer – that is wild about Marechera!!! It sounds fun, too … and I am sure he was unpleasant, at least to most people …
Thanks everyone for very interesting suggestions … I want to relearn visualization too, I am working on this … valerian, I have but it has never seemed to make a difference. I’ll watch out for kava kava, then … that’s interesting about B deficiency, I used to always take B complex and it is one of the things I stopped when I got into Reeducation (remember it wanted me to feel pain) and have just started again, I really like it … neurontin, I’ll ask about it. In pharmaceuticals, the thing that works for me is a micro dose of XANAX once or twice a week. It is hard to get because they say that to take that little means it’s a placebo and/but to take more means you’re an addict. But it really works. I have an appointment February 26 with someone I like to discuss this. 🙂