As I mentioned in my first post about tapering off benzodiazepines, I was prescribed them for the intense anxiety stemming from PTSD. I wasn’t warned about their addictive properties. I wasn’t warned about the danger of coming off them. I wasn’t informed about their effects on memory. In short,...

Getting off benzos has been the hardest thing I’ve done in my life. I was prescribed them over 20 years ago and always took them exactly as prescribed. I never abused them, and my refill history is perfect. I’ll be writing about how I tapered and what it has...

I’ve decided to write about other things along with the blog’s main topic of PTSD. I’ll start with something I’m passionate about… Linux! I’ve been using Linux since before it had any kind of functional desktop environment. Everything was done via command line and configuring and compiling the kernel...

What makes people do terrible things? Obviously, I don’t have an answer to that question for anyone other than myself. I did the things I did out of fear and anger, sometimes out of a strong sense of self-preservation. But I’ve know people who were just stone cold killers....

As I left off in part one, I hated cops, judges, P.O.s, and anyone associated with the justice system. Even with all the chaos in my life up to that point I wasn’t prepared for what I saw and experienced getting mixed up with the justice system. I saw,...

Trauma can make you an extremely angry and dangerously mean person. Mean enough to get you incarcerated. That’s what happened to me. Incidences (you can guess) involving a male family member when I was very young changed me forever. When something like that happens to one so young it...

It took over a decade to learn what was “wrong” with me. Each shrink I went to had their own pet diagnoses that they dished out, OCD, Bipolar disorder 2, depression with psychotic features, generalized anxiety disorder. It was actually a dentist who put me on the path to...

Welcome to my little spot on the web! I’ve named the blog Breaking My Teeth because of the bruxism I have as a result of C-PTSD. I clench and grind my teeth so hard that I have broken my teeth. I have also worn the enamel off my teeth....