Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PTSD. Show all posts

Monday, September 20, 2010

5 Ways to Self-Empower Even the Foggiest Recovery

By Michele Rosenthal
Guest Blogger

The most difficult part of being sick - and recovering afterward - is the cognitive impairment we experience during that time. Whether due to drugs, medications, stress or just plain exhaustion it can be so difficult to keep our heads clear, our minds exact, and our thoughts congruent. After fifteen years of being a chronic, sleep-deprived, malnourished and overly stressed patient with PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), however, I discovered that there are definitely some self-empowered ways to gain control during that fuzzy-brained period.