Party Season Arrives

It s nearing end of year, October already, and for us this means party time. Client parties, functions, quick weekends away, and well lots of partying and having a good time for brief periods. Sounds great, right? Well that is if you don t have PTSD. Let me try and explain what its like for me. Yes, there are absolutely periods of time amongst all of this that I love, enjoy, and just makes me happy to be alive. Then things deviate as this part of the year continues. As I become more worn down from acting as normal as possible, as my stressor intake increases from all the additional activity in my life, so do the symptoms that are normally well managed and controlled. My stress cup fills, my tolerance declines, anger rises through, and then I find myself trying to suppress it as much as possible with alcohol or valium, trying to make it through day-to-day. They re both temporary solutions, obviously, both of which have their negatives. More kids in shopping centres due to holidays, bus
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