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Nick, I'm in Jeannette, and we've been frustrated by things around here, also. It seems like most of the emphasis in Pittsburgh has been on implants and such; we couldn't find anything about a deaf coffee or anything like that. I'd love to get together, perhaps in Greensburg, and start a club...

The thing is, you don't know if they can make gains without the meds until you try therapy. If it doesn't work, sure, I agree, give them something to relieve the symptoms. I just object to doctors who toss out drugs without hardly looking at the patient first.

I will be the first one to say that some people need meds. I just don't like how some drs will perscribe meds without hardly talking to the person first. Try to deal with the problem first, and medicate if it's needed.

What's a CRC?

Okay, I'm a little confused now. In one post, you said Cognitive Therapy is not theoretical, and now you say it is. I'm not sure if your definition changed or what. Anyway, I agree that it is a great technique, and I use it also. Since you can get to those professional journals, take a...

I know that Cognitive Therapy is not theoretical; I hope I didn't say something to imply that. That's my perspective on most aspects of counseling; this particular technique just works better on PTSD. I point out that tension, also. I'm not against pointing it out, but this particular...

As I was explaining in answer to another post, it's not like something to distract you when the trigger comes along; like it's been said, there's no time. It's more like it separates the emotion from the memory there in the therapy session. If you can relax and deal with the issue calmly, you...

It's not really like that. It's not a constant distraction, but more a means of distraction during the therapy session. It's not a gimmick, but a means of releasing the tension. Think of it more like if you have a tight muscle in your back keeping your spine out of alignment. A chiropractor...

My wife is HoH, and we're all learning ASL so that we'll be ready for when we need it. My question to all you experts is, how bad does hearing need to be to get a service dog? I know that most of the organizations have a waiting list, so we want to get on one ASAP. How much of a hearing...

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Ask your therapist about it. People are generally split about it - they love it or hate it. I've seen dramatic results. Like I said, it won't cure everything instantly, but it's great at helping take off the emotion that blocks dealing with the issue.

Some places use "alcoholic wine," because the King James Version says "wine," and that's the meaning today. The word used in the original Greek means "grape product," and that can be anything from grapes still on the vine to grape juice to wine to raisins. You need to look at the context...

I'm for it. In this election year, I take a firm stand on sleep. Seriously, I sleep on my side (spooning against my wife), unless she decides to cuddle, in which case I sleep on my back and she sleeps on my chest.

Admittedly, there's a small pool of people qualified to run a school, but that choice for GU a few years back didn't even know ASL! That should have been requirement #1 for any position there, even janitor! With more and more deaf people reaching that kind of level of education (because of...

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It's a way to allow your mind to deal with the traumatic event. Think about it this way: When you are faced with something beyond "bad," to the point that your mind just can't deal with it, you basically wall it off. On the plus...

Why aren't deaf people the first choice for leading deaf schools? I mean, maybe 186 years ago there weren't enough proficient deaf people, but that's the whole point of these schools, right? To educate deaf people to be able to work alongside the hearing? It's like that stupid spokesman for...

Ptsd I've been working on my MDiv, and I've done a lot of focusing on PTSD in counseling. It's basically caused by a traumatic event that is so shocking that it doesn't fit in with your world picture. Sometimes people can adjust, sometimes they just shut down completely, and sometimes that...