A helpful technique for dealing with disassociation and anxiety from PTSD is to ground ourselves, by focusing on something in our environment. I figure a good time to practice this is also when I'm not in the midst of an episode. Anyone wanna join in?

Look around the space you are in, name:

Something you see
something you hear
something you touch/feel
something you smell
something you taste

I'll work this, let's see...

I see dim light coming in through slanted blinds, I see large bright lamp bulb shielded by white cone shade, I see my college graduation green white and gold tassel hanging from a white hook, I see a red cotton place mat, also a rose pink chair.

I hear the footsteps of neighbors upstairs, wood creaking. Crows cawing, my keyboard clicking, a car cruising by outside, coffee sloshing in paper cup, various electronics apartment, squeak of chair.

I feel ache in my arms, pain in shoulders, dull all over flu feeling, warmth in feet. Plastic of keyboard, soft brushed cotton of pants. Plastic smooth of coffee cup lid. Ripple of metal spiral wire on notebook, cracked vinyl of chair.

I smell coffee, almond pastry cake, laundry soap scent faint in sweater, vanilla in hand lotion.

I taste faint saltiness, coffee strong, almond flavored yellow cake, mouthwash.