Hello all,
I was wondering if anyone else's ptsd was caused from a natural disaster. More specificly a tornado. I only ask because I'm in need of help with controling my triggers or rather my reaction to them, and I was wondering if anyone else with experience with this could lend some insight.
My big triggers are the weather. Unless its a sunny wind free day I have trouble. The more severe the weather the worse. Even if you didn't get "tornadoed" if you get triggered by the weather I'd like to hear what you've found helpful.
Depending on the weather my symptoms can be as "mild" (I use that term loosly, its actually quite annoying and infuriating) as being easily distracted, iritable, difficulty concentrating and almost no short term memory. To panic attacks and having to look out the window a couple times a minute to make sure it the trees arn't about to fall on me, to at they're worse being absolutly certain that I'm going to die. Throw in a healthy dash of flashbacks that coincide in severity with the severity of the weather/anxiety and you've got yourself a very rough/basic idea of whats been going on lately. Also if you've got any tips for getting rid of nightmares I'd appreciate it.
Thanks for reading,
Travis
I was wondering if anyone else's ptsd was caused from a natural disaster. More specificly a tornado. I only ask because I'm in need of help with controling my triggers or rather my reaction to them, and I was wondering if anyone else with experience with this could lend some insight.
My big triggers are the weather. Unless its a sunny wind free day I have trouble. The more severe the weather the worse. Even if you didn't get "tornadoed" if you get triggered by the weather I'd like to hear what you've found helpful.
Depending on the weather my symptoms can be as "mild" (I use that term loosly, its actually quite annoying and infuriating) as being easily distracted, iritable, difficulty concentrating and almost no short term memory. To panic attacks and having to look out the window a couple times a minute to make sure it the trees arn't about to fall on me, to at they're worse being absolutly certain that I'm going to die. Throw in a healthy dash of flashbacks that coincide in severity with the severity of the weather/anxiety and you've got yourself a very rough/basic idea of whats been going on lately. Also if you've got any tips for getting rid of nightmares I'd appreciate it.
Thanks for reading,
Travis