Showing posts with label #chiropractor #health #Dr. Jim Asch #Palmer College. #depression emotions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #chiropractor #health #Dr. Jim Asch #Palmer College. #depression emotions. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Living With PTSD



The following are a few suggestions from Veterans who were involved in combat in the Vietnam War.


1. GIVE ME SPACE when I need to be alone - don't overwhelm me with questions. I'll come and talk to you when I'm ready.

2. Get away from me if I am out of control, threatening or violent.

3. Be patient with me, especially when I'm irritable.

4. Don't personalize my behavior when I explode or get quiet.

5. Learn and rehearse a time-out process.

6. Don't patronize me or tell me what to do. Treat me with respect and include me in conversations and decision making.

7. Don't pity me.

8. Don't say, "I understand", when there are some things you cannot understand.

9. Realize that I have unpredictable highs and lows -- Good and bad days.

10. Anticipate my anniversary dates - recognize that these could be tough times.

11. I'd like to share my traumatic experiences with you but I fear overwhelming you and losing you.

12. I want to be close to you and share my feelings, but I'm afraid to ... and sometimes I don't know how to express my emotions.

13. I also fear your judgment.

14. Know that I still love and care about you, even if I act like a jerk sometimes.

15. Don't ask me to go to crowded or noisy places because I'm uncomfortable in those settings.

Monday, April 27, 2020

Something To Say


Have you ever been introduced to someone and then endured what seemed to be an endless pause trying to find something to say?

Some people are never at a loss to have something to say, even if it is no more inspiring than talking about the weather. However, you want to be different. You would like to appear to be brilliant, to make some constructive remark, some quaint observation, something witty; but nothing come to mind. You are as dull and speechless as a clam. What shall you do to overcome this hurdle?

Well, perhaps the other person feels equally ill at ease, so ask a question, any sort of question, anything to get started such as, "what was your name again or I didn't quite understand?  or How do you spell it?"

If it happens to be Jones or Smith, that to might be embarrassing; but you can laugh and remark, "Well, I ought to remember that but there is a strange thing about names. They can be spelled differently and they usually apply to occupations, or towns or something unique. Do you know the origin of your name?"

This may break down the barrier about something to say. Thane again the question of health may somehow be woven into the conversation and that can become an endless topic. People do like to talk about their aches and pains, or their recent operations, or even symptoms which give them something to say and they generally like to share it.

Health problems are much like the news, the more tragic it is the more attention it gets. The news seems to stress crime, murder, and other conflicts rather than peace, happiness goodwill, and things uplifting.

When it comes to the health equation, cancer heart attacks, and killer diseases are played up. Much space is given to surgery heart transplants, and other operations that make the headlines; all the while little is said about Chiropractic and its mode of restoring health without drugs where other methods have failed.

The great thing about Chiropractic is its different approach. Chiropractors give little concern about naming or treating diseases. They seek the spinal cause of the trouble and ways and means of eliminating the cause.

Do you ask what relations ship there is between the spine and health problems? There is a very outstanding relationship. The spine is not only the strength and support of the body but it is the distributing center of the entire nervous system that animates the body and directs and controls all bodily functions.