by Jesse Donahue | Mar 12, 2025 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Designer IdentityBy Jesse B. Donahue 2024 ©Designer identity… you either love me or you don’t. I either love myself or I don’t. I could not love myself for being something or someone I am not. It just couldn’t, shouldn’t, wouldn’t work, and it never did. I have not...
by Jesse Donahue | Jan 28, 2025 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
SPECTRUMBy Jesse B. Donahue 2023©From all the ranges, both ends to the middle, there is a scale that talks of our likes, interests, and nagging peccadillos. Our behavior, our feelings, and, to some, our intense shame at our own life’s realities registers somewhere on...
by Jesse Donahue | Dec 25, 2024 | CPTSD
SPECTRUMBy Jesse B. Donahue 2023©From all the ranges, both ends to the middle, there is a scale that talks of our likes, interests, and nagging peccadillos. Our behavior, our feelings, and, to some, our intense shame at our own life’s realities registers somewhere on...
by Jesse Donahue | Nov 28, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Living in the dis-worldBy Jesse Donahue 2019©Avow, to make known, to confess or admit. The most striking aspect of my life is the depth, the ever-lurking, unconscious presence of a sense of self that feels… disregarded and dissed from the realm of normality. I feel so...
by Jesse Donahue | Oct 29, 2024 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
The Man Who Lives Under the BridgeBy Jesse Donahue 2017 ©There is a man who lives in a large drainage culvert that goes under a road near my home. He has been there for nearly a decade. You see him frequently, standing out on the sidewalk at the large drainage pipe...
