Poll When Did the Symptoms of PTSD First Appear, After the Initial Traumatic Event?

[Gs172003]

Honestly? I don't really know

 

[CptPirate]

only after i was freed of it and given a better life...which makes no sense.

 

[Chelsie]

So when did your symptoms first appear? This is the magic question which will show quite drastic results compa...

My PTSD didn't truly present itself until after my Mother passed away 3 years ago and after my Father passed away this past February, my world completely caved in. I had held things in from the age of three until I was 18 and never fully told the story to anyone. Then I had one trauma right after another from childhood through adulthood. I had too many people that relied on me, so I couldn't break, I could only deal with everyone else's issues or needs and not my own. This is why my PTSD didn't truly rear its ugly head until later years. I had triggers and I warned people of the triggers that I had but PTSD wasn't a known thing back then and it was "taboo" to even discuss things like that. So I held everything in for the most part.

 

[AnnArkist]

For me it was very shortly after

 

[Mim28]

My PTSD symptoms started showing up immediately, but I didn't realize that's what they were at the time. Honestly, I thought I had gotten past them. It was 10 years later when I experienced a similar near event that sent the PTSD into overdrive. It was I was right back there. I didn't realize it was hiding behind the wall.
I didn't even talk much about the event in T because I thought I was okay. It's not the whole reason I am the way I am, but it's a big part.

 

[Gs172003]

My PTSD symptoms started showing up immediately, but I didn't realize that's what they were at the time....

That's similar to me

 

[Deleted member 37605]

I got PTSD symptoms the next day. But I didn't realize it. I was lightheaded and dizzy all day and very tired. I thought it was due to an unrelated other physical disease I have. I took some B12 and iron supplements. I thought it was anemia.

 

[lymphomamama]

As soon as I was ambulatory again I began carrying my handgun pretty much 24\7. I watched tv with it under the sofa decor pillow. I quit going to social events around then. I had multiple pains and health issues but never connected them beyond the aches of broken bones. Now, some 15 years on I am unable to leave home, drive alone, I only sleep days, multimeds, panic attacks, nightmares. The Disability people don't see how I could function so well as they put it for so long and now I cant! The older I get (52) the weaker I feel, less able to defend myself, less able to concentrate and remember. Have a can it be this long and NOw I've lost control and am terrified of the neighbors dog barkibg? What took so long?

 

[Quang]

25 years.

I had buried everything very deep inside and thought it was forgotten. Until it ALL came back in a flash and took away my life. Since then I have been doing what I can to get back some level of normalcy.

 

[Chelsie]

25 years.

I had buried everything very deep inside and thought it was forgotten. Until it ALL came back...

Quang, That's pretty much how it had happened with me as well. I thought my life was under control and after my parents passed away, my life fell apart. It started falling apart after I lost my mother and then got even worse after I lost my father.

I pray one day we will find that normalcy again and feel like we are back on top of the world! Sending hugs your way!

 

[Glo809]

Greetings
I'll never know because I was too young, I only have the briefest snippet of a memory.

G

 

[Neptune]

Traumatic events of various types occurring periodically from since I can remember til maybe 7/8 years of age. Depressed since I know it, attemped suicide at 16, started feeling the first typical ptsd-related symptoms at 19.