103 -Special Edition 5 - PTSD Awareness month (4) - PTSD 8

So, yesterday was another anniversary in my long traumatic years. It was a day I landed on foreign soil, many many years ago. I was one more child who paid a heavy price after his parents divorced and couldn't agree as to the proper way to raise me. 

102 -Special Edition 5 - PTSD Awareness month (3) - PTSD 7- Forgiveness

*trigger warnings : abuse, domestic violence, cult* 

I want to discuss the notion of forgiveness and how it relates to trauma, especially in my case.

I’ve heard and read many people talking about the need to forgive in life. Religions and spiritual leaders, as well as lay people, all talk about forgiving one another. Now, I think that if someone finds inner peace in forgiving someone’s hurting them in words or actions, this is positive.

101 - CBT 2016-3

I just came back from my third new CBT appointment, with positive discussions revolving around my thought patterns and results from my previous tasks.

100- the 100th post and a challenge

Brainstorming with my wife always brings great ideas. For my 100th post here, I invite you to a challenge : 

Name 100 ''things'' that are great when you are feeling down, or having a bad day. 
You can replace 'great' by good, or positive or whatever such word : the goal is finding 100 different (even slightly from one another) or that brings you some joy and relief- including on difficult days, or just on normal ones (see, I'm not too demanding!)

99- Feminism (1)

I'm a feminist. There, I said the dirty F word that some men fear. They fear losing their power, their domination in the world. 

But, that domination is wrong, just like it was wrong to own slaves, or any one of a myriad wrongs done on this planet. 

There is a LOT to say about feminism, and why one should be a feminist. 
So, what IS feminism? Put short, it's a wide spectrum of political and social movements and ideologies with the objective of defining, building and subsequently reaching the end goal of equal rights for women in all fields of life : 
Personal, social, economic and political rights, equal to those of men. 

98- Hemophobia : blood phobia (1)

If you type ''blood'' on my blog, you'll notice that I mentioned several times that I suffer from hemophobia, or : blood phobia. 

97- Special Edition 5 - PTSD Awareness month (2) - PTSD 6 : evolution of dreams

***hopefully, this won't be, but in case:  ***trauma trigger warning***, if you also had trauma with your father*** 

As mentioned all the way back in post 63 (PTSD 3), part of the post-traumatic stress disorders reveals itself through 4 specific clusters. 

Today, I'll concentrate on the aspect of them : * re-living the event, through intrusive memories, nightmares or flashbacks. I've talked about that, too, already: I have had many nightmares and flashbacks, and until a few years ago also intrusive memories, until my memory started to fail (a bit of a blessing, but I also forget important non traumatic things and that's a problem).

96- Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ (7) - Historic U.N. Decision

I haven't fully read the article but I must share it with you. The gist is simple : expanding the Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations to encompass violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity. 

95- Special Edition 5 - PTSD Awareness month (1) - PTSD 5

***trigger warnings : cult, abuse***

I have discussed in previous posts about my CPTSD - i'll let you read them and wait for you to come back to this one - although I'll repeat some of it, I'll try to focus on adding details. 

94- Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ (6) - Tribute to Orlando shooting victims

Words have failed me this past week. I struggled to compose posts for my various blogs and the difficulty of expressing my sadness of a new monumental loss of life. The loss which is the result of a fundamental hatred. I'm talking of homophobia.

93- CBT 2016-2

My second CBT appointment today was very positive. I have 2 tasks to do. Next appointment on 24th - only 10 days !! I'm glad I finally found a good therapists who listens and gives me actual tasks beyond mere lists. 

92 Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ (5)

My heart goes out to all the victims of hatred around the world, including the 49 people who were killed at Pulse Nightclub in Florida. 
My heart also goes to the 53 wounded. 

My hearts is with all the families and friends of the victims. 
Don't let this be just another statistical data. Don't let them die in vain. 

Once again, we see the importance to stop gun violence, and that awareness must be raised and hearts opened to avoid so much hatred and total disregard to LIFE. 


I really hope that these events will push everyone to elect someone who'll listen and work to end these cycles of violence in a country that really needs to heal and stop prejudices of all sorts.

91- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibe (7) - Change

Day Seven – Realize Change Is Inevitable (challenge: name something you are going to change in your life or want to change)

90- Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ (4) LGBTQ are...

Common beliefs gave LGBTQ people very bad images I discussed in the previous post. 
So, what ARE these people if they are not those monstrous sinners?

89- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibe (6) - Open your mind

Cortnee's 7 day challenge is almost over, Day Six is: Open Your Mind (challenge: name something new you learned in the past week or month)

88- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibe (5) - Treating yourself

Cortnee's 7 day positivity challenge, day Five : Treat Yourself (challenge: how do you “treat yourself”)

87- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibes (4) - Letting go

Day Four of Cortnee's 7 day positivity challenge is :  Let Go Of The Negativity (challenge: how do you “let go”)

86- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibes (3) - Positivity in Situations

Day Three Of Cortnee's 7 days positivity challenge : See Positivity in Every Situation (challenge: name five good things that happened in the past week or month)

85- Out of topic : FB profile thefts

Hello everyone,

Usually, I write on this blog to share my experiences or raise awareness in mental health issues.
I have also raised awareness on other topics since April, in regards to societal issues. 

My topics shall be expanded, but in the meantime I'm taking a moment to tell you to be very careful online. As you may know, there are many trolls and bots over on all social medias. But, there are also scams of all sorts : special deals with huge discounts for your favorite brands or stores turn out as lies, or attempts to get your credit card numbers. 

84- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibes (2) - Self-Love

Day 2 of Cortnee's 7 day positivity challenge : Practice Self-Love (challenge: name three things you like about yourself)

83- Random acts of compassion

Today, I was in the right place in the right moment, so I could perform an act of compassion.

It doesn't have to cost anything, it doesn't have to be a ''huge thing''  it can be as simple as my small tale :

82- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibes (1) - Gratitude

I'm joining Cortnee's 7 days of positive vibes challenge ! let's hit the floor & dance !

The 7 day positivity  challenge starts today ! 

81- Special Edition 5 : Q&A : veganiversary

Inspire by Kiera Rose's upcoming veggieversary q&a, I decided to create my very first entry about the subject as I shall celebrate 13 years vegan on 6/6/2016, so drop here your questions and I shall try to reply on that day :) Stay tuned!

80- Special Edition 4: Cortnee's 7 day positive vibes (0)

I'm joining Cortnee's 7 days of positive vibes challenge ! let's hit the floor & dance !

The 7 day positivity challenge starts June 6th!

79- Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ : (3) - LGBTQ+ are not...

Contrary to far too common beliefs, LGBTQ+ are not :
Demons & sinners
Deviants
Amoral
Abnormally Continuously Sexually Aroused (aka ''horny all the time'')
Cheaters or marriage breakers 
Sick or psychologically/ mentally ill
Weak
Non-persons
...

78- Special edition 3 - LGBTQ+ : (2) Non Binary

I previously mentioned that in our society's views, I am ''an effeminate man'', because I walk like what is labeled as a woman's walk ; my hobbies, interests and tastes are ''feminine'', and a few other details that I'll let you read in the above link.


Now that you read it, let me precise that I consider myself non binary/Gender Queer, the Q in the LGBTQ+ spectrum. 

77- Special Edition 3- LGBTQ+ Awareness month (1)

June is international awareness month for two topics: Posttraumatic stress, and the one I'm going to talk about here : LGBTQ+. 

First, what do these acronyms stand for ? 
LGBT means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender. The Q usually stands as Queer, others see it as Questioning, and the + for etc, as in any non hetero, not cisgendered identity. 

Here's a quick breakdown of the spectrum :

Yes, I'm going to talk about this topic, it is just as important as mental heath ones, and will actually tie it together to the main subject of my blog (well, the one that was the main until now.... it's meant to be expanded).