Vickie Morgan - my PTSD journey

The following is a transcript of the OOPS NL podcast, episode #1 For just the audio: https://oops.blubrry.net/2019/06/21/oops-the-podcast-june-21-2019/ For the video on Youtube: Link can be found here OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNT-fKT8fQA&feature=youtu.be Hi I'm Vickie Morgan Host of Ounce of Prevention. Also that's shortened into O O P S Ounce of Prevention show just who whoops we're off to a great start. Actually this is the third time I've started it.   The first time I didn't have pants on and the second time I farted. Don't want to make it too real too soon. So this is Ounce of Prevention. Ounce of Prevention actually started three years ago in Maine where we were living and I started doing some stuff for public access stations and started doing my own production with my own cameras, editing myself, etc. So I did a season in Maine and then I did a season that I shot in Canada at the ECMA. And then I moved home. As a ...

Have you caught that show on cable lately about mental health and the chick doing the interviews is like mentally ill? Not like sittin naked in the bath tub rubbing feces on herself but like legit PTSD. She had a kid that died I think or some shit like her Dad didn’t hug her enough. She used to be my roommate so I overheard her on the phone talking about it. That’s how we talk about mental illness. Those are direct quotes from different people.  I published a book about how I “got” PTSD and my mother-in-law posted a review on Amazon that said anything negative in there about her was due to my mental illness making me remember stuff wrong. That’s how we talk about mental illness. When a guy back in Newfoundland started a charity for mental health I sat my oldest son down and told him all about it. He wanted to know what mental illness meant and I said it’s like stuff in your mind that you can’t help, like being sad but for no reason, or worrying all the time when t...