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    • 17 Ratings
    • 1681 Views
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    Marigolds and Mary

    JANUARY 30, 2012 6:54PM

    By beauty1947


    Topics: childhood, trauma, death of a friend, family, friend

    • Editor's Pick
    • 31 Ratings
    • 35690 Views
    • 78 Comments
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    Marines Urinating on Corpses—What the Video Doesn’t Show

    JANUARY 13, 2012 1:11PM

    By Annie Keeghan


    Topics: trauma, ptsd, combat, war, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 1241 Views
    • 34 Comments
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    Joplin’s Survivors Have a Rougher Road Ahead Than Some Know

    MAY 24, 2011 4:35PM

    By L in the Southeast


    Topics: disaster aftermath, trauma, ptsd, surviving, survivors, disaster in joplin, joplin missouri, tornadoes

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 866 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    How a Children's Book Helped Me Learn to Grieve

    FEBRUARY 1, 2011 4:34PM

    By Megan Scott


    Topics: mo willems, books, family, emdr, therapy, trauma, love, death, baby loss, stillbirth, loss, grief

    • Editor's Pick
    • 48 Ratings
    • 1402 Views
    • 64 Comments
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    We Caught the "Eye of the Storm" in the Mortgage Crisis

    NOVEMBER 23, 2010 4:31PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: belief/religion, business, economic downturn, economy, foreclosure, home affordable modification program, family, feminism, food/drink, cottage business, for+sale, open+call, ptsd, trauma

    • Editor's Pick
    • 57 Ratings
    • 2330 Views
    • 65 Comments
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    How Many Times I've Wanted to Pull A 'Slater'!

    AUGUST 11, 2010 1:54PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: restraint, common decency, teachable moments, recovery, steven slater, trauma, dissociation, ptsd, excuse me if this comes off as sanctimonious it's not meant to, belief/religion, comedy, i quit!, family, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 1888 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    "Don't Just Do Something; Stand There."

    JULY 28, 2010 8:00AM

    By RARobertsJr.


    Topics: caregiving, helping, grief, trauma, death and dying

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 3239 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Trauma! Mercy, Miami Medical, Not George Clooney's ER

    APRIL 14, 2010 12:49PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: high tech medical shows better have high energy actors, grey's anatomy, george clookey, er, trauma, miami medical needs 911, mercy, medical, televison, entertainment?

    • Editor's Pick
    • 63 Ratings
    • 2292 Views
    • 78 Comments
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    Please Meet Ms. Stumpy

    APRIL 6, 2010 11:28AM

    By Sparking


    Topics: snark, i have to laugh, comedy, health, open call, dissociation, ptsd, trauma, tar-jay, walker, watch out i'm dangerous when i'm mobile, my daughter thinks its a new spiffy toy, stumpy, ms. stumpy, no that is not short for anything else, does looking old make you old?

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 1187 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    Fear of Time's Illusion

    MARCH 9, 2010 12:20AM

    By Sparking


    Topics: facing fears, google images, there are gifts on the other side of fear, you never know what you might get, open call, life after death, abuse, trauma, time, ptsd, dissociation, ghosts, spirits, life, death, murder, transcendence, illusion, isn't it all an illusion anyway?

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 868 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    DOAs and DVDs

    FEBRUARY 11, 2010 1:22PM

    By drB


    Topics: gunshots, guns, gangs, violence, death, trauma, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 9255 Views
    • 115 Comments
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    A Survivor's Take on: "The Trauma Myth" by Susan A. Clancy

    JANUARY 22, 2010 7:44AM

    By Sparking


    Topics: ptsd, sexual abuse, trauma, news, feminism, books, open call, susan a. clancy, the trauma myth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 49 Ratings
    • 5670 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    It’s Not My Place to Forgive My Son’s Murderers

    SEPTEMBER 1, 2009 6:06AM

    By Kate Bishop


    Topics: forgiveness, belief/religion, family, jessie, grief, grieving, transcendence, addiction, murder, alcoholism, mental illness, trauma, compassion, tolerance, objectivity, rage, anger, spirit, angry is god too

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1507 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Avoidance vs. Engagement in Intensive Care

    JULY 21, 2009 5:09PM

    By Nurse PhD


    Topics: trauma, intensive care unit, hospital, nurse, nursing, medicine, health care, coping skills

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 836 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Brain Injury and YOU!

    MARCH 25, 2009 1:45PM

    By artzstuf


    Topics: open call, health, tragedy, news, celebrity, movies, actress, actor, vanessa, redgrave, liam neison, millbrook, ny, richardson, natasha, bia, waiver, tbi, recovery, treatment, concussion, afterward, disability, survivors, vicims, shot, gun, car, accidents, causes, viruses, trauma, head, injury, brain

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1978 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    “There’s her tooth over there!”

    NOVEMBER 24, 2008 2:52PM

    By M B


    Topics: trauma, health, hypochondria, dentist

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1204 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Just Another Everyday Tragedy

    DECEMBER 8, 2008 12:03PM

    By Nurse PhD


    Topics: suicide, mental illness, medicine, nursing, trauma, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1975 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Growing up with St. Anne

    AUGUST 3, 2008 8:00PM

    By lalucas


    Topics: childhood, belief and religion, catholic, trauma, true story

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