{"id":43133,"date":"2019-01-24T10:49:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43133"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:49:33","slug":"selco-on-ptsd-the-price-you-pay-for-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43133","title":{"rendered":"Selco on PTSD: The Price You Pay for Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Selco on PTSD: The Price You Pay for Survival <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s Note<\/strong>: Something a lot of people forget when they think about survival is what happens after you\u2019ve survived. When you get through something terrible, there\u2019s always a price you must pay for your survival. You won\u2019t get through it unscathed. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oftentimes, that price is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. This is a very real condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a horrifying event or series of events.  You can learn more about PTSD here<\/a> on the VA website. Once called \u201cshell shock\u201d or \u201cbattle fatigue syndrome\u201d it can affect more than just soldiers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t survive something awful and expect to live unscathed. PTSD isn\u2019t a symptom weakness. It\u2019s a sign that you have a conscience and a heart. It\u2019s a sign that you love and you care. It\u2019s part of being a survivor, and that\u2019s why all of us are here \u2013 we want to survive.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article, Selco shares his deeply personal experience with PTSD.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Price You Pay for Survival<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

by Selco<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I am not alone.
he\u2019s here now.
sometimes I think he\u2019s
gone
then he
flies back
in the morning or at
noon or in the
night.
a bird no one wants.
he\u2019s mine.
my bird of pain.
he doesn\u2019t sing.
that bird
swaying on the
bough.<\/p>

\u2014Charles Bukowski<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For all people out there, who carry this ugly bird on their shoulders.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anxiety, phobias, PTSD, depression\u2026 are just words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the people who have not experienced it personally, those words cannot portray feelings of being lost, alone and cornered while you are fighting for air, or simply thinking that you are going to die. Or that you are not gonna make it. Or that it is not worth to make it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Selco on PTSD: The Price You Pay for Survival Editor\u2019s Note: Something a lot of people forget when they think about survival is what happens after you\u2019ve survived. When you get through something terrible, there\u2019s always a price you must pay for your survival. You won\u2019t get through it unscathed.  Oftentimes, that price is Post-Traumatic Stress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24119,8296,5756],"class_list":["post-43133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-post-traumatic-stress-disorder","tag-ptsd","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43134,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43133\/revisions\/43134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}