Daily Archive for December 21st, 2007

Hypervigilance and PTSD

In about an hours time I talked to complete strangers about how to dress up a walking cane, about good books, about travel, movies, family, homelessness and trees, all of which was right after a therapy session. I talked to a woman about her time in Alaska, of course that lead to discussions of global warming. We talked about how expensive it is to go green. After that I talked to a man about his family reunions and about being from a family of 12 children with over a hundred relatives from his immediate family – all will be here this holiday season. After that I came home to my own chaos but that didn’t last very long because I chatted a bit with Barney who is feeling rather down about not getting a lot of Christmas cards this season. The entire time I spoke to these 4 different people I was aware of each and every thing around me, every sound, and every single solitary movement, theirs mine and things in my immediate environment. Continue reading ‘Hypervigilance and PTSD’

Cab Company Saga Continues

Today does bring something different; it brings a calmer me to a table of idiots. It seems that since Thanksgiving the cab company has experienced a lot of fraud cases where people attempt to use Medicaid to pay for trips that Medicaid doesn’t pay for. I only got this information when I called to ask my therapist’s office why it is that they verified my appointment to the cab company without my permission to give out my name and the name of the doctor that I’m seeing. It seems that since November the cab company has experienced and influx of fraudulent cab rides, however, it doesn’t mean that every time an address shows up different that the rider is lying or cheating someone. Never does it justify calling a customer to call them a liar and a cheat. Continue reading ‘Cab Company Saga Continues’