Question For Sufferers From A Supporter

[Afa]

Can you feel an isolation coming on? It's so confusing to understand...

 

[Wolazap]

Yes I feel one coming on now...trying to fight it.

 

[Recusi]

Yes, I know when my symptoms will harm those I care for.
I know it and I withdraw because my PTSD isn't allowed to muck up their lives, by the way...those are my feelings about my symptoms...

 

[Dupuv]

When stress and tension are building up in my body, that is how I can usually tell that a period of isolation coming up, but I don't isolate so much anymore as I have conquored my fears through exposure to social engagements and other events that used to trigger anxieties.

 

[Racu]

Some times. Most of the time I realize it as it is starting.

 

[Jumob]

Yes I can usually feel it.

 

[Onusa]

Yes, I can feel them coming on.

 

[Kepu]

Sometimes, yes. Other times I just sort of wake up a few days, weeks, months, years later.

 

[Johabo]

Mostly. But it's a bit like a rising tide: sometimes it's coming in too fast or I'm already knee deep. Knowing it's coming is just the first part - stopping it in its tracks is a completely different battle, where the variables change. I don't always win. And getting out again can be just as much of a lottery.

 

[Dobij]

Thank you all for the input. I'm really struggling with his isolation this time.

 

[Hefoj]

Months or years later? What does that mean? How does anyone isolate that long? I mean is it from one person, everyone, I don't understand isolation for months to years...

 

[Ibi]

How does anyone isolate that long? I mean is it from one person, everyone, I don't understand isolation for months to years...

it's very easy to do