I feel like this is a taboo subject still, although I do admire New Zealand for doing so much work to help bring this very important subject out into the open. However, it is still not something that people readily talk about.
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Understanding PTSD: is it just someone moaning or feeling sad?
I am not one to whine, or deliberately see the bad or sad side of life. In fact I think sometimes people who follow me forget there is even another side. Such is the nature of social media.
Continue reading “Understanding PTSD: is it just someone moaning or feeling sad?”Poem: the demon inside my head
Terror within is quiet today
Dormant, for how long, who knows
Brewing beneath the surface to say
Don’t forget me, what I say – goes.
The things I don’t talk about
I do my best to give public snippets of reality, but lets face it, online is very different to knowing me in person. So I thought I would address a few of the things I do not regularly talk about online.
Continue reading “The things I don’t talk about”Poem: Finding me amongst the mayhem
Self identity, what does it mean?
Taken for granted, pre-assumed
Until your major beliefs are destroyed
Leaving you in a barren battlefield.
Like being airdropped into a strange town.
Take time to look around.
Find the familiar, find the new,
Make a list – what interests you?
A new coffee shop – same familiar taste.
A new dress shop – different but cool.
Familiar roads, don’t know where they go.
We head out anyway, discovering new.
Lipstick we loved – rediscovered again.
Sense of self worth, constructed anew
The town we knew is long gone.
New cities we found – even more cool.
New identity – Para is me
New look – confidence is me
New sport – Waka ama is me
New belief system – THIS IS ME!
[poem by Melanie Magowan]