Poll Which Ptsd Symptoms Bother You The Most?

[NCO1969]

I cant choose its a tie for panic attacks or the social emotion I encounter with depression taking up the rear..

 

[drgnfl2078]

'lost time' is what bugs me the most...when you zone out for seemingly endless periods of mental torture.

 

[Gamereign555]

Yeah anger also is pretty bad, wish I could put everything in this poll, looks like other symptoms is going to get a lot of votes, still I am liking the results already.

 

[mmir]

Yeah anger also is pretty bad, wish I could put everything in this poll, looks like other symptoms is going to get a lot of votes, still I am liking the results already.

Yeah, anger is a vicious cycle...I get angry and then I'm angry that I'm angry and continue being angry, etc....It's very hard to break from that one...

 

[Srain]

Yeah, anger is a vicious cycle...I get angry and then I'm angry that I'm angry and continue being angry, etc....It's very hard to break from that one...

Isn't that the truth!

Gamereign, great poll!

I had to go with "Other". The first and foremost is the screaming or noise in my head. It is always there, I can tell how stressed out I am by the pitch and volume of it but it is such an annoyance!! When I get angry it goes from annoying to piercing to a sound that is unspeakable screams in my head. The worst is when only one ear goes quiet like getting my attention only to start up again. Though through hard work it did go very quiet to silent at one point showing me the tdoc and pdoc were actually right about it being my PTSD...all the times I've screamed is what I'm hearing. Then the heavy chest, I never get enough air.

 

[Emilie]

All of it really, I think it's the combination of them on any given day.I can work with one here or there, those are my good days. but some days, they are just all there boiling under my skin and making me incapable of functioning.

Now actually thinking about it...Fatigue is the worst I think, it makes me unable to do things I like and things I NEED to do. It's the only symptom I can't handle by itself.

 

[freakofnurture]

I can't really decide because it's mostly the total of all of my symptoms making my life miserable. I could deal with having only one or two of them, but the combination is a downer I can't yet surmount.

The most bothering part concerning every day life:

Fatigue keeps me from doing the housework. The inability to focus keeps me from doing housework for more than 10-20mins once I got my heavy a** off the couch, and it keeps me from working on my book or reading longer texts. Anhedonia keeps me from not sitting around in an apathetic stupor for hours on end, bored to the point of running around screaming in my own head. These three symptoms plus anxiety keep me from getting a job. And on top of that, my sleep disorder makes everything worse.

Don't get me started on what bothers me about simply being me...

 

[Ruth09]

Since I've started the citalopram, the hyperarousal isn't so bad. However, depression and suicidal ideation seems to have taken its place. Lovely, don't you think?

 

[BloomInWinter]

I voted for anxiety/chest tightness/pain/heartbeat... ugh...had all of that today. I especially hate the feeling that no matter how deeply or slowly I breath, I can't get enough oxygen.

Some of these fall into the hyperarousal cluster....hard to capture it separately but anxiety lets down after a few minutes. The hyperarousal....can go for weeks, and never truly lets down for me.

'lost time' is what bugs me the most...when you zone out for seemingly endless periods of mental torture.

Zoning out is actually the rumination cycle...the more we stay on that, the deeper we carve that mental pathway, the stronger it gets. I have an intimate relationship with my bedroom ceiling.

Actually 'losing time' for me is part of the dissociation...at the worst end when I'm triggered.

Thought-provoking thread! I suspect our mind maps are so complex even the Google would have a hard time mapping them....

 

[Crl1983]

The worst for me are my angry outbursts, my distrust of everyone, and my inability to form, develop or maintain normal friendships and relationships. Because it causes others pain. I cannot stand the fact that I cause others to feel rejected or hurt. I feel like a rotten person.

 

[thinlizzy4010]

I was going to put fatigue, I would have been the first. But I think that stems from the hypervigilence, the sleep disorder etc. But emotionally, the worst feeling is the mental roundabout. I just wanna get off it.

 

[bittersweet]

I chose Flashbacks. To me they are the worst because all it takes is a fraction of a second of a flashback or intrusive thought to send me spiraling down into depression, anxiety/panic attacks, stress, and all these other symptoms.