What Is It With All The Drinking And Drugging And Ptsd?

[Tezipu]

Many people use alcohol and drugs to hold off feeling physical and/or emotional pain and for many their pain is not chronic or constant like that of a sufferer. I think every user, whatever level, knows that the pain free period is temporary and not the long term answer. I have seen the effects of this first hand. I have seen a person go from feeling like king of the world, to intense anger to crying like a baby. All in the matter of a few hours. There's nothing wrong with being emotional and feeling as I've heard some sufferers say they were numb and didn't feel anything but when it becomes a cycle, the using followed by the high/low emotion it does seem like a dangerous combination.

 

[Uhad]

It's no mystery to me at all why people would do drugs and drink. I might too except I know that it would be a bummer to be an addict and it would only be a short term solution.

 

[Oji]

I used drugs from the age 5 up till 15 and drank from about 10 till 15 I went cold turkey and got clean after a drugs talk at school before that I didn't know it was wrong. But yet again at 20 I am back on the drink and drugs because it is the only way I know how to cope to put me in that daze because there is no support for me at the moment. I overdose (not fatally but bad enough for hospitalisation for a few days), I drink until I sleep and I spend all my spare money on drugs just so I can stay breathing.

I went to see a traumatic stress centre about 2 months ago who told me to cut down the drink if I could, and the drugs and all the other bad habits but not worry about it because it was stopping me killing myself. The reason I am here is support whilst I wait for the specialist support. I will be doing intense therapy when the funding comes through and hit the end of the waiting list. Unfortunately being so young and not being a vet means funding is hard to get.

So sometimes it is actually life saving to stay on drugs and drink until the proper support is in place because I know if I went cold turkey now I would be dead by the morning.

 

[Enu]

That you have to ask this tells me you don't know shit about them. Read In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and get to the chapter called Their Brains Never Had a Chance and maybe that might start to illuminate it, if you're interested in learning and not just feeling superior.. Being a judgemental prick and looking down your nose at them only ensures YOU WILL NEVER GET IT and you will NEVER HELP THEM. They are self-medicating for PTSD, anxiety, depression, and immobilizing conditions. Congratulations for being part of the problem and making sure that more people stay trapped in prisons of mental illness.

 

[Nahama]

That was for the OP, the question was really insulting to me. To a one every single person with a hard drugs problem has an emotional hole they are trying to fill. It also helps them escape from people who think they're superior because they've never had the misfortune to become mentally or emotionally broken in some way.

You wouldn't harsh on someone who has cancer for having cancer, but it's totally OK to poke at the symptoms of the mentally ill and get all moralistic? Yeah, right.

 

[Jopor]

Question wasn't why do they have a problem, question was why don't they deal with it. Being, how can you think you can deal with PTSD without dealing with that?

I'm not the OP BTW.

 

[Bitari]

Why do you imply the OP never had the misfortune to become mentally or emotionally broken in some way? This is a PTSD Forum.

 

[Avija]

I want to know exactly who is drugging it up! I haven't seen ANY posts to this effect, then again I stay out of the diaries. Maybe it's all posted there? Or maybe the OP is complaining about the sufferer in their life?

 

[Pohuwuk]

So you know who this is from the admin rank in attached ipad screenshot, I will only say that the op is a PTSD sufferer, thus people should stop implying otherwise.

 

[Cawor]

I want to know exactly who is drugging it up! I haven't seen ANY posts to this effect

An example from [DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/is-what-i-went-through-really-traumatic-or-is-it-just-me-being-overly-sensitive.32863/[/DLMURL]

I need my drugs. They help me get by. They are not my entire world, nor are they a significant part of my world, but they are necessary, and I do enjoy them, and they don't hurt me.

He probably wasn't PTSD but I wanted to give an example from someone not a regular member here. He seemed mentally and emotionally broken anyway. This is the sort of thing some PTSD people say, I see it in posts.