Emotional Triggers – Nancy Jean Walker

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Post #65 – PTSD – Triggers Topple Like Dominoes – So I Created a Trigger Log to Recapture My Joy

By Nancy on November 22, 2022 • ( Leave a comment )

It baffles me how quickly joy can turn into sorrow, but once again, I find myself drowning in a pit of despair because of one well-intentioned but misspoken word, at least to me, when it was simply an innocent remark. Trigger: hypersensitivity to certain words toss me into […]

Post #261 – Self-Harm – My Secret

By Nancy on October 31, 2018 • ( 3 Comments )

Post #249 – Screw You PTSD Triggers & A Poem

By Nancy on May 19, 2018 • ( 6 Comments )

Triggers are stealthy. An image, a song, a smell, a flashback, etcetera, happen suddenly. Assaults are like bullets flying over my head. In that moment my whole world changes and it takes me time to readjust. PTSD often lingers for a lifetime. I wrote the poem below as […]

Post #210 – PTSD, Triggers – Memoir

By Nancy on March 8, 2017 • ( 6 Comments )

When I was fifty-eight, sixteen years after Tropical Spastic Paraparesis paralyzed my legs,

Post #196 – My Struggles with PTSD, Depression, Faith, and Maintaining a Smile

By Nancy on January 22, 2017 • ( 6 Comments )

THEN

Post #173 – History and Unexpected Ways to Celebrate Thanksgiving

By Nancy on November 24, 2016 • ( 9 Comments )

Thanksgiving day is celebrated mainly in America and Canada. Much like the annual harvest festivals celebrated in other countries throughout the world.

Post #150 – Confessional – Personal Secrets

By Nancy on October 11, 2016 • ( 16 Comments )

I cannot sleep without my head and eyes completely covered by a black satin sheet. I pull the blanket up to my chin. My mouth barely shows (says my husband and aid). I have claustrophobia, but I have always felt safe under my covers. I believe that if […]

Post #134 – Hidden Places – Victimhood

By Nancy on August 18, 2016 • ( 13 Comments )

PTSD steals the soul – depression haunts me nightly. Insomnia – even though I take a sleeping pill I don’t sleep. It’s been going on for weeks. No will to write; nothing to smile about. Why do I allow people to rule my emotions? I suffer from a disease […]

Post #125 – Encouragement Quotes – Day 4

By Nancy on July 28, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

Post #117 – Transparency, Depression, and My Dilemma

By Nancy on July 10, 2016 • ( 27 Comments )

To dip my foot into the ocean, drive a car, slip a shoe on and off, and to dance again. What joy that would be! Lately I have wrestled with fatigue and depression. My disease is progressing a bit faster. I fall asleep in the middle of eating, […]