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One of the best tools that we’ve found to help with managing Post Traumatic Stress and improving mental health is our nutrition . So let’s talk about the foods that cause or increase inflammation, and what foods can help keep inflammation at bay.

How to Manage Negative Thoughts – The single most productive thing to learn in your recovery journey is how to take a thought captive–how not allow it to rule or ruin a moment, a day, an opportunity. In this quick video Dr. John A. King discusses something that is at the very heart of his book #dealwithit – living well with PTSD.

Overcoming a victim mentality is a matter of perception. If you allow someone to make your world for you, they will always make it too small.

Everyone has bad days–sometimes even a string of them put together. When you are dealing with PTSD and learning to manage yourself , there are some things that can really help on those shitty days.

PTSD Is Not A Pissing Competition . I was contacted by a female veteran who made it very clear to me that she believes that REAL PTSD was only something that people in the military could experience. I very firmly and politely disagreed.

It’s difficult to know if someone cares for you when you are dealing with PTSD in relationships.
If you have experienced trauma, some people just want to sit and hear your horror stories. Others want fodder for the gossip machine.

How PTSD Affects Daily Life . When a man’s wife becomes his ‘caregiver,’ the natural order of marriage is destroyed. If a woman acts like your mother, it is impossible to be intimate with her.

TIPS FOR LIVING WITH PTSD .

#DEALWITHIT is a PTSD self-help book for veterans, police, and trauma sufferers .

What happens when PTSD is triggered .