Finding Your Marbles
A Mental Health Survival Guide

On Saturday I learned that Finding Your Marbles has been added to the prestigious SOB (Successful and Outstanding Blogger) list!
This is a pretty big deal, and I’m honored to be joining such an incredible group of bloggers. Thanks to Liz at Successful Blog for the award and thanks especially to you readers for supporting […]

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The other day I had a terrible experience on one of the mental health forums where I am a member. A few members launched an attack on me, something that occurs all too common on any forum, but on a mental health forum they can be particularly disruptive. After I was unsuccessful in my attempts to get the members to withdraw their attack, I wrote to the forum administrators to complain.

Their response caught me off guard, to say the least:

You are known to be outspoken so you shouldn’t be surprised when you get attacked by other members.name withheld

Well.

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For me, one of the toughest things about recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety has been learning how to manage triggers.

If you’ve got PTSD or you have panic attacks, you know what I mean by triggers; those little things that, once your “anxiety brain” gets hold of them, send you into a downward spiral of fear, panic, and sometimes, even depression.

My worst trigger is child abuse. If I see a news story about an abused child, or even if I overhear someone talking about an abused child, my pulse rate just shoots up. If the abuse is sexual, then all bets are off and I have to take action to manage the trigger before I get anxious.

I do a couple of little things to manage triggers and minimize the effects that they have on me. They may work for you.

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After many friendly suggestions, ok, complaints, I’ve decided to pull all advertising off Finding Your Marbles. I’m currently in the process of removing the ad code from the site, so please don’t mind the mess for the next couple of days.

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Just a quick post to let people know that I’m sticking around and writing. I have been off managing a few personal issues that have come up but I’m back at writing now. I plan to start posting new articles later this week.

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