Do you spend more time thinking about the future or the past? Why?
[ The Future Or The Past? ]
[ This Is A Horrible Question For You ]
[ You Spend WAY Too Much Time Wrestling With Things In The Past! ]
[ You Don’t Know Why Your Brain Relives Things In Your Past Over & Over Again? ]
[ You Have PTSD From An Incident That Happened During One Night Shift When You Were Working In Juvenile Corrections ]
[ This Happened In August Of 2002. It Continues To Feel Like It Happened Yesterday ]
[ You Have Been Through All Different Kinds Of Therapy ]
[ Nothing Helps Make It Go Away ]
[ Just Like You Can’t Help Who Your Heart Turns Towards, You Seem To Not Always Be In Control Of All Of Your Thoughts ]
[ You Can Control The Actions You Do After Having The Thoughts ]
[ Your Heart Is Still With The Same Beautiful Woman It Has Been With Since The Summer Of 1994 ]
[ That Is An Easy One ]
[ You Have Yet To Find The Mystical Time Machine Where You Can Go Back In Time & Correct Misdeeds, Change Regrets Or Apologize To Those You Might Have Wronged While Traveling On Life’s Path ]
[ You Have Yet To Change A Single Event From Your Past ]
[ Maybe That Is What’s Wrong With People That Experience PTSD ]
[ Somehow They Get Stuck On The Event That Caused Horrible Trauma & Like A Ship That Has Run Aground, They Are Unable To Move Off Of It ]
[ PTSD Is Not Just For Veterans Or Soldiers That Were @ War. A Traumatic Event Can Happen To Anyone ]
[ Just Because You Have A Bad Dream & You Remember It, Doesn’t Mean You Suffer From PTSD ]
[ What You Might Have Is A Memory ]
[ Everybody Experience’s PTSD Differently ]
[ PTSD Will Not Manifest Itself The Same Way For (2) People, Even If (2) People Suffer Through The Same Traumatic Event ]
[ Each Brain Is Different, Of Course! ]
Mahalo,
~ Lopaka DeVoe ~
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