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Beginning Contact (Phone/Email) Tree and Blog for Support Group
Its time to get everything ready for the support group for PTSD victims to begin regular meetings by November. That means I have to have contact information passed around and a way to keep everyone in touch easily, despite any potential life chaos issues, as with Robin's recent meltdown. Already a possible 5th participant has inquired about joining us– a friend of my neighbor's. I haven't even advertised for this group online yet and we're up to 5 just with women who know one another.
Today I took the step of creating an online blog for everyone to be able to check in on. I named our group– but its secret for safety reasons, so I'll give it the code name here of “Found Hearts” in order to reference it in such a way that I can share what I'm doing with everyone on my own personal blog.
I have this weird feeling that when I finally do open this to the local public, I'm going to get WAY more interest than I originally anticipated. I find I'm okay with that. Life seems to be directing me towards this path right now, and its relating to something I know way too much about. I've lived with PTSD– granted, from several sources, some of which unconventional– but the point is I've managed to get most of the way to the other side of mental health and so can address this with both compassion and true understanding of what devastation this creates in people's lives. AND it no longer dominates my life, so I can offer insight “from the other side.”
So far, except for myself, every woman who will be participating has to be on powerful tranquilizers in order to even function, so high is their monumental distress. 2 of the women tried to commit suicide last week, and one of them is still locked up in a treatment facility. Some of them are in therapy and some are not. None has a strong support system. In fact, it is sadly typical that Post Traumatic Stress Disorder sufferers lose friends, jobs, and are often cut off from family. Most end up divorcing (even if the husband was not the perpetrator, as is often the case.) So this is very badly needed.
We'll see where this goes. One thing that has been made clear to me is that this is not something I can drag my feet over.
2012-10-18 07:49:33
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