Thank you for sharing this with me. I really only know one other person who has non-combat PTSD, and it just never occurred to me that there could be a “community”of sorts who are dealing with the same thing. My best friend’s husband is an Iraq veteran, and he keeps calling me “warrior princess” and telling me he’s…

Me too... for me, if I don’t tell everyone I love them and remind them to be careful all the time, I am afraid they’ll die. I have recently realized that my anxiety is not about my own injury (not especially, at least), but about the injury or death of someone I love. I think seeing a friend die was the most…

Thank you... and what you said resonates! I also didn’t have any head trauma, but my memory is just shit, and I find myself losing my train of thought completely mid-sentence. I feel dumb - before I used to sit down and create complex experiments, and now I just stare at a lab notebook like... “what goes here?” I…

I was to sole survivor of a very traumatic accident as a passenger last year, and I am still recovering emotionally. I will be for many years, I think. It wasn’t that I doubted PTSD was a real thing (not at all), it’s just that I didn’t understand it even a little bit until it happened to me. It is amazing how the…

When teenagers have nothing else to do, they typically do one of two things: 1) Have sex 2) Summon demons.

I find the entire Christian proverbial way of talking so passive aggressive and unnecessarily fancy (so as to sound authoritative). “He who ___ shall ___...” “Be sure sins shall find a sinner out...”

Yes, and I would echo that this is true at most Research-1 (“very high research activity”) universities. I did my PhD at one, and I’ll be damned if I didn’t start teaching full upper-level classes unassisted the 1st year of graduate school. I am encouraging all the young ones in my life to do the community…

Dude, I’m so sorry about all this.

Chicken before everything

Ok, agree with the article's premise but... WOULD WEAR (poolside).

It's not brown and chunky-slimy enough to be anything I remember from my "underage" menses.

Endless love for Susan Tedeschi. I remember being a disappointed 13 year old when Christina Aguilera beat her out for the Best New Artist Grammy - and I loved Christina too :) but nothing like Susan. I am so thankful Tedeschi Trucks happened... so much touring, so much very, very good music! She has my favorite voice…

I think we are all limitless as to what we can accomplish.

Good God.

Because heaven forbid a woman/baby girl not present as hyperfemme! Gotta excuse it: "they're my boyfriend's jeans... because we just fucked." Like, "the boyfriend jean" was already a weird thing, but then they applied it to babies. This is just very tone deaf.

This reminded me of one of those moments when a hurt that you never thought could, just dissolves. You carry around a weight for so long, not having any idea how to assuage it, and doubting that it can ever go away. And then someone says something simple and it's like a a gentle tug on a string untying an impossible…

The wife and widow roles are likely fulfilling the same trope... so put that number at 27%. Interesting...

I know the feeling - "what is 'my own thing,' anyway?"

Me too! It's probably because it dismantles the idea of there having to be a single moment where one person (usually a man) asks, and the other person (usually a woman) has to give a reply right then and there. It is like the woman taking back the agency that society told her she couldn't have, since so many men think…

YES! This is so right. I am so sick of planning for a wedding and not for the marriage. I feel that we have gotten so off track with party planning... and it all makes me so nervous (but not the being married part).