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1.) Bob Peck - 11/12/2015
When I Googled it I came up with PTG (post traumatic growth) which means instead of the trauma creating a stress disorder the sufferer puts that trauma to use in their life for positive growth.
Not what I was looking for.
Maybe it's just me but I find this time of year when I'm hunting hard (Fri-Sun), and spending sunrise to sun set in the deer woods and stealing time during the week for speed hunts all my senses upgrade. What I mean is the transition back to "real" life from the deer woods at the end of the day is a hard one. Fluorescent lighting bothers me. The noise level of people, cars, ambient white noise is deafening. The smell of even the smallest amounts of perfume knocks me off my feet. In general, I find the hyper-vigilance put to good use as a predator in the deer woods is a problem in real life. This is in no way a presumption on my part of any kind of understanding of PTSD or PTG. What I'm talking about is the reverse. Those hours in the woods changes me for the better but alas it's temporary because I live here not there.
It seems my brain adapts and conditions itself to a different mode. I see every single teeny tiny spec of movement and that's a challenge when you're driving where you want to be aware but have some kind of filter to keep the focus on safety.
Maybe I'm becoming a deer?
Nah. I'm not peaceful vegetarian. No way. Maybe it's neurons firing down that last and final path into the ancient part of brain that controls emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation called the amygdala.
All I know is something happens to me I can't explain when I get a whiff of fallen leaves, dirt, mold all wrapped up in chilled air. Add a equal amount of piercing silence so quiet your ears ring and then finish off this experience with motion and confirmation of a movement you know. Instant adrenaline.
Somehow each time I return back to "real" life I imagine I leave a little piece of me out there.
Not what I was looking for.
Maybe it's just me but I find this time of year when I'm hunting hard (Fri-Sun), and spending sunrise to sun set in the deer woods and stealing time during the week for speed hunts all my senses upgrade. What I mean is the transition back to "real" life from the deer woods at the end of the day is a hard one. Fluorescent lighting bothers me. The noise level of people, cars, ambient white noise is deafening. The smell of even the smallest amounts of perfume knocks me off my feet. In general, I find the hyper-vigilance put to good use as a predator in the deer woods is a problem in real life. This is in no way a presumption on my part of any kind of understanding of PTSD or PTG. What I'm talking about is the reverse. Those hours in the woods changes me for the better but alas it's temporary because I live here not there.
It seems my brain adapts and conditions itself to a different mode. I see every single teeny tiny spec of movement and that's a challenge when you're driving where you want to be aware but have some kind of filter to keep the focus on safety.
Maybe I'm becoming a deer?
Nah. I'm not peaceful vegetarian. No way. Maybe it's neurons firing down that last and final path into the ancient part of brain that controls emotions, emotional behavior, and motivation called the amygdala.
All I know is something happens to me I can't explain when I get a whiff of fallen leaves, dirt, mold all wrapped up in chilled air. Add a equal amount of piercing silence so quiet your ears ring and then finish off this experience with motion and confirmation of a movement you know. Instant adrenaline.
Somehow each time I return back to "real" life I imagine I leave a little piece of me out there.
2.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2015
"What's the matter with Bob?" :wink
You need to take the edge off, Bob.
I'm no meteorologist, but here's my prescription:
More sleep and less caffeine will help with the sensory overload at home. Also, I believe you have been surrounded and vastly outnumbered by beings of the female persuasion for quite a long time. Swapping out all the women for a couple of cats, dogs or a pet raccoon will cut down on most of the noise, unless the raccoon gets in the cabinet where you keep the pots and pans, so watch that. It may also help with the sensation of blinding, pulsing bright light and pressure right behind your eyeballs that you are probably experiencing. Plus, you'll eliminate the possibility of perfume odors in the vehicle and catastrophic scented laundry incidents (CSLI). Google "Stockholm Syndrome" for more information and other possible remedies.
In the woods, be sure to carry your smartphone, and be careful that it is fully charged. It's important that you be able to answer your email, check Facebook and stay in touch with friends, colleagues and loved ones via text message. Plus, you can check your scent cone with a hunting app. If you are a member of any internet hunting forums (not saying I recommend that) you can share significant moments in your life through "Live From The Stand" posts. This is invaluable to help "get things off your chest." Or, if you're full of inner peace up the yin yang that day, you can enjoy the posts of other people who are also sitting in trees and who need to get things off THEIR chests. So that's win-win. Really though, anything that you can do to resist "getting back to nature" will help.
So, you see this two-pronged approach should help tremendously by attacking the problem from both ends. Hopefully you will come to inner calm over time, and find your qi close to the center. I urge you to take steps to help yourself before it's too late.
Baby steps, Bob. Baby steps. :wink
You need to take the edge off, Bob.
I'm no meteorologist, but here's my prescription:
More sleep and less caffeine will help with the sensory overload at home. Also, I believe you have been surrounded and vastly outnumbered by beings of the female persuasion for quite a long time. Swapping out all the women for a couple of cats, dogs or a pet raccoon will cut down on most of the noise, unless the raccoon gets in the cabinet where you keep the pots and pans, so watch that. It may also help with the sensation of blinding, pulsing bright light and pressure right behind your eyeballs that you are probably experiencing. Plus, you'll eliminate the possibility of perfume odors in the vehicle and catastrophic scented laundry incidents (CSLI). Google "Stockholm Syndrome" for more information and other possible remedies.
In the woods, be sure to carry your smartphone, and be careful that it is fully charged. It's important that you be able to answer your email, check Facebook and stay in touch with friends, colleagues and loved ones via text message. Plus, you can check your scent cone with a hunting app. If you are a member of any internet hunting forums (not saying I recommend that) you can share significant moments in your life through "Live From The Stand" posts. This is invaluable to help "get things off your chest." Or, if you're full of inner peace up the yin yang that day, you can enjoy the posts of other people who are also sitting in trees and who need to get things off THEIR chests. So that's win-win. Really though, anything that you can do to resist "getting back to nature" will help.
So, you see this two-pronged approach should help tremendously by attacking the problem from both ends. Hopefully you will come to inner calm over time, and find your qi close to the center. I urge you to take steps to help yourself before it's too late.
Baby steps, Bob. Baby steps. :wink
3.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2015
"What's the matter with Bob?" :wink
You need to take the edge off, Bob.
I'm no meteorologist, but here's my prescription:
More sleep and less caffeine will help with the sensory overload at home. Also, I believe you have been surrounded and vastly outnumbered by beings of the female persuasion for quite a long time. Swapping out all the women for a couple of cats, dogs or a pet raccoon will cut down on most of the noise, unless the raccoon gets in the cabinet where you keep the pots and pans, so watch that. It may also help with the sensation of blinding, pulsing bright light and pressure right behind your eyeballs. Plus, you'll eliminate the possibility of perfume odors in the vehicle and catastrophic scented laundry incidents (CSLI). Google "Stockholm Syndrome" for more information and other possible remedies.
In the woods, be sure to carry your smartphone, and be careful that it is fully charged. It's important that you be able to answer your email, check Facebook and stay in touch with friends, colleagues and loved ones via text message. Plus, you can check your scent cone with a hunting app. If you are a member of any internet hunting forums (not saying I recommend that) you can share significant moments in your life through "Live From The Stand" posts. This is invaluable to help "get things off your chest." Or, if you're full of inner peace up the yin yang that day, you can enjoy the posts of other people who are also sitting in trees and who need to get things off THEIR chests. So that's win-win. Really though, anything that you can do to resist "getting back to nature" will help.
So, you see this two-pronged approach should help tremendously by attacking the problem from both ends. Hopefully you will come to inner calm over time, and find your qi close to the middle. I urge you to take steps to help yourself before it's too late.
Baby steps, Bob. Baby steps. :wink
You need to take the edge off, Bob.
I'm no meteorologist, but here's my prescription:
More sleep and less caffeine will help with the sensory overload at home. Also, I believe you have been surrounded and vastly outnumbered by beings of the female persuasion for quite a long time. Swapping out all the women for a couple of cats, dogs or a pet raccoon will cut down on most of the noise, unless the raccoon gets in the cabinet where you keep the pots and pans, so watch that. It may also help with the sensation of blinding, pulsing bright light and pressure right behind your eyeballs. Plus, you'll eliminate the possibility of perfume odors in the vehicle and catastrophic scented laundry incidents (CSLI). Google "Stockholm Syndrome" for more information and other possible remedies.
In the woods, be sure to carry your smartphone, and be careful that it is fully charged. It's important that you be able to answer your email, check Facebook and stay in touch with friends, colleagues and loved ones via text message. Plus, you can check your scent cone with a hunting app. If you are a member of any internet hunting forums (not saying I recommend that) you can share significant moments in your life through "Live From The Stand" posts. This is invaluable to help "get things off your chest." Or, if you're full of inner peace up the yin yang that day, you can enjoy the posts of other people who are also sitting in trees and who need to get things off THEIR chests. So that's win-win. Really though, anything that you can do to resist "getting back to nature" will help.
So, you see this two-pronged approach should help tremendously by attacking the problem from both ends. Hopefully you will come to inner calm over time, and find your qi close to the middle. I urge you to take steps to help yourself before it's too late.
Baby steps, Bob. Baby steps. :wink
4.) DParker - 11/13/2015
I was just gonna' recommend bourbon...but all that sounds good too.
5.) Bob Peck - 11/13/2015
[QUOTE=Swamp Fox;36320]You need to take the edge off, Bob.
[/QUOTE]You don't get it.
[/QUOTE]You don't get it.
6.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2015
[I]"Perhaps there's more to Newman than meets the eye." [/I]
:p
:p
7.) Bob Peck - 11/13/2015
Clearly, higher level thinking just isn't possible for everyone.
8.) luv2bowhunt - 11/13/2015
I know what you're saying Bob. I look forward all year to having this week off, just to clear the mind and get centered. Most of the sits in the State Forest you see and hear absolutely nothing. Some days, no sounds at all. No birds, no squirrels, no planes, no dogs barking, no cars, nothing.
Hard to take the noise once you've been removed from it.
Swamp Fox is just using his version of humor. He means no harm, just keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times and remember to keep all food and beverage secured and elevated off the ground.
Hard to take the noise once you've been removed from it.
Swamp Fox is just using his version of humor. He means no harm, just keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times and remember to keep all food and beverage secured and elevated off the ground.
9.) Wild Bob - 11/13/2015
[QUOTE=Bob Peck;36326]Clearly, higher level thinking just isn't possible for everyone.[/QUOTE]
:laugh:
:laugh:
10.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2015
LOL...
11.) Swamp Fox - 11/13/2015
[QUOTE=Bob Peck;36326]Clearly, higher level thinking just isn't possible for everyone.[/QUOTE]
[I]
"You could be right. I'll rewrite the prescription."[/I]
:p
[I]
"You could be right. I'll rewrite the prescription."[/I]
:p