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Google AI overview: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that can develop after you experience, witness, or learn about a terrifying or life-threatening event . Symptoms like flashbacks, bad dreams, avoidance, and feeling on edge can last for more than a month and disrupt your daily life. Common Symptoms Intrusion: Unwanted memories, vivid flashbacks, or bad dreams that make you feel like the event is happening again. Avoidance: Staying away from places, people, objects, or thoughts that bring back memories of the trauma. Negative changes in mood or thinking: Feeling numb, hopeless, or having ongoing fear, anger, and guilt. Arousal and reactivity: Being easily startled, feeling tense or on edge, having angry outbursts, or trouble sleeping. Common Causes Direct trauma: Experiencing physical or sexual assault, severe accidents, or combat. Witnessing trauma: Seeing a violent event happen to someone else or living through a natural disaster. Indirect exp...

 From dictionary.com noun resentment anger, bitterness, or ill will noun resentments the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc, regarded as causing injury or insult. Synonyms: jealousy, envy, irritation, pic, dudgeon From vocabulary.com Resentment, or the strong and painful bitterness you feel when someone does something wrong to you, doesn’t have actual physical weight, but it feels very heavy and can last a long time. Forgiveness is one way to get rid of resentment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think that we have all felt the bitter taste of resentment at one time or another in our lives. It seems to be part of the human condition. For me it was just a part of how I lived for a long time. I did not even understand that I resented things. I was, in my mind, just placing the blame for things where they belonged. I was also, in my mind, justified for all of it. After all, things had been...

 In the winter of 1994 - 1995 one of my nephews, I have a lot of nieces and nephews, and his friends got tired of me bitching about winter. They told me one evening that the next day they were kidnapping me to a small little ski area known as Maple Valley. A little place long since closed. They were all snowboarders and they informed me that we were going to go there and that I was going to spend the day learning how to snowboard. They said that my bitching about not having anything to do and too cold and all of that had gotten really old and that I had to at least give this a try. If I didn't like it by the end of the day that I had at least tried and they would accept that. This was the winter before I started going to recovery meetings. I was lost. Hated myself and everything else. Was not in a good space. So we went. And by the end of the day I knew that they had won. I was hooked. Damn it :-) And they were surprised at how well I took to it. And for the rest of that winter I w...