Comments on: Contact

By: Risa Ruse

Risa Ruse — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:37:16 +0000

PTSD response
You’re very welcome, Jason. You have to be ready to open your heart to receive the blessings waiting for you when you connect to Eternal Spirit. We all have life lessons to learn. Some of us take longer than others. Know that you are loved and not forgotten. Take as much time as you need.
Blessings sent your way,
Risa

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:08:48 +0000

Thank you, I appreciate that very much. I need people to bounce ideas off of sometimes. I will write to you when I realise what I have to say. But for now thank you.

By: Risa Ruse

Risa Ruse — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:07:26 +0000

Oops, Jason here is the link for the published articles in rhyme to connect you to our Divine: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Risa_Ruse
I look forward to your email response.
Positive thinking to share,
Risa

By: Risa Ruse

Risa Ruse — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:04:33 +0000

Hi Jason,
I was very moved by what you shared and complement you on what you honestly said. As a twice survivor of PTSD (once as a child losing my mother to suicide and then as a mother) I certainly do know how alienated we can feel when the “spilling out” is taking place in our lives. Dr. Z gave you some worthwhile advice as I also will validate the necessity to have a connection with your Source (Jesus is mine.) Without that connection there can really be no peace. Others without PTSD can only ponder what we go through. Please my brother in kind, go to this article directory and you will find my free articles in PTSD rhyme that will most certainly help you get that must needed connection. I’d be happy to lend an empathetic ear. My contact information is on my website listed here. Yours in His trusting Power, Risa

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:32:33 +0000

Thannk you, For right now I will just say that. Later on I will tell you what I have been doing what has worked and what has not. I will not get rid of insurance either. Never was going to but if I could switch my medicaid to medicare that could be pretty huge.

God bless,
Jason

By: Dr. Z

Dr. Z — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:51:18 +0000

Hi Jason, Many of us are struck with the illness of PTSD and one of its by-products is to isolate us and make us feel so desparately alone. Your desire to seek out a safe community is a healthy one. I know what you mean when you say you do not get respect for your PTSD and how you wish you had been in the military so people would respect your illness better. Often, even combat veterans do not get much sympathy from the American public. Whether civilain-based or military-based, PTSD is an awful condition to have. Many people will use any excuse they can to deny compassion to another human being. I don’t run a forum on this web site (I can barely keep up as it is), but I have ben told Yahoo has some PTSD forums that may prove useful to you. The fact that you are seeking help and actively looking for community is a very healthy sign – don’t think otherwise. Seeking out God in prayer, writing and art will also help, even though the PTSD will try to convince you otherwise. You have value and you should continue to seek community. Semper Pax, Dr. Z

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:06:33 +0000

Hi guys. I am still in shock from a lot of things I have been through. I have gone through the “mental health” system and have not recieved to much help. My insurance is crap and I get crap services. I am trying to find a safe place to be “fucked up”. So I can work on this and have people around me to make me feel better. Shit just knowing a few good people were around and could deal with me it would really help. I am trying to get donation to get some intensive ptsd therapy. I wish I was in the military and got ptsd from there. Then I would be respeted and people would take this shit seriously. I was working before and that really helped then I hurt my knee and it fucked me because sports and work kept me grounded. Plus I could socialize with my co-workers. It really helped a ton. Soon after I couldn’t work t all flooded back. It has been to long. I just got out of the hospital a few weeks ago and it really did not lead to and substantial solutions.

By: Risa Ruse

Risa Ruse — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:32:55 +0000

PTSD response from me!
Dear Dr. Z:
What a heartfelt reply you sent me.
On all facets I surely agree.

Thanks for the tip from the Vet Art Project.
Please excuse any words of character that cause you to object.

What we both can share also needs to be expressed.
Giving thanks for little things keeps us from being depressed!

Yours inspired in rhyme from the Divine,

Risa

By: Dr. Z

Dr. Z — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:43:40 +0000

Hello Risa, I too find that art (in its many manifestations) can be healing. Your motif of “Rhyme with the Divine” helps people see that our words, while spoken in the mundane, also can illuminate the Divinity that we can explore and heal with in our on-going exploration.

As a traditional Roman Catholic I experience the Rhyme/Divine in our scriptures, for example, in the Old Testament the Psalms, Proverbs, and Canticles. In the New Testament Song and Rhyme are also parts of the presentation of the Divine, e.g., the first 19 verses of John’s Gospel shares a poem about the Word. Paul the Apostle also uses meter in parts of his work and we even find poetry in the Book of Revelation. Indeed, the Liturgy and the Office of Prayer are also replete with life-giving poetry.

I think the barrier you have encountered with some in the Medical Industry has a lot to do with financing (insurance does not pay for what often is considered “alternative healing”) and the personal competiveness among many physicians. If I used all of the professional initials that go with my training/credentials I think there are over ten letters. That said, quite a few people with alphabet soups after their names lack compassion, while others have it. I am doubtful that the medical industry and the insurance companies will ever be willing to pay or acknowledge those means of healing which do not provide them with profit and/or adulation. While I have met some fine individual medical doctors they tend to be the exceptions and not the norms. The same is true of many of my peers who have the PhD. Yet, compassion does not require an academic degree.

In your shoes I would expect continued barriers. But, if you are meeting with PTSD and trauma survivors and they benefit from your work, then you have already won, so to speak. It has been pointed out to me that I could have made more money as a lawyer than a theologian and PTSD guy, but I think in the big picture I do more good by doing what I do now. If your poetry promotes life, then stick to that.

You may be interested in searching the internet for the Vet Art Project. Poetry is one of the healing venues they explore. Thank you for taking the time to visit this site.
Semper Pax, Dr. Z

By: Risa Ruse

Risa Ruse — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:34:34 +0000

Dear Dr. Z:
The hardest part of sharing this valuable Self-Help Alternative Healing is to get through to health care providers. They seem to have their own mind-set and are set on not listening to anyone that does not have a few letters after their names in their degrees. Any thoughts on removing this barrier to make a very worth while “Art” into a “healing” resource?
Sincerely,
Risa