How Do You Cope With People Not Wanting To Be Involved With You Because Of Your Ptsd?

[Laura 2]

@Recovery4Me
Thank you for putting it so well.

Those who point fingers/judge are invariably those whose own lives are woefully unexamined. Love the invitation to joint therapy. Bet that sends that sends the roaches scurrying back into the woodwork!

PTSD is an injury, every bit an injury as being run down by a hit-and-run driver or being shot by a mugger. Anyone could be thus injured. It only becomes a mental illness when it is ignored and derided by e.g. self, friends, family, doctors etc and left to fester. IMHO.

 

[AqueousAndroid]

PTSD is an injury, every bit an injury as being run down by a hit-and-run driver or being shot by a mugger. Anyone could be thus injured. It only becomes a mental illness when it is ignored and derided by e.g. self, friends, family, doctors etc and left to fester.

I LOVE this! I'm going to quote you on it as a personal reminder to myself through out whatever happens in my life-experience.

Thank you <3

 

[Ladyghosthunter]

I just ignore them because they think, just because I have PTSD, that I'm some kind of nut or some kind of freak but then that's been all of my life. After a while, you find out who your true friends are and will accept who you are no matter what. I have friends for over 20 plus years who have known all along that there's been something wrong. When it comes to telling someone I have PTSD, they ask, "Don't soldiers only get that?" I just answer, "No. People who have been through severe trauma have it." If they are my friend, they are. If not, then they are not worth my time.

 

[Laura 2]

I LOVE this! I'm going to quote you on it as a personal reminder to myself through out whatever happens in my life-experience.

Thank you <3

:joyful: Hey AA, thank YOU for your positive comments! I'm humbly happy that you find strength in these bons mots! (oh aye, I'm full of them, wish I was as wise IRL as I am on 'paper'!!) Do you reckon it's a fridge magnet job...?!

But anyway, I have a thing about simplifying and not accepting all we're fed especially about the injuries we've suffered. I sort of reframe everything I can to correct the balance. Otherwise we're just stuck in the mire of how others define us and then, sometimes/often, just bugger off leaving us to it!

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I look for positive people who accept me as I am. I do not talk anymore about my past except rarely now. I am in a much better place now. But no drama producing people are invited into my life. I like to have low maintence friends now. Not many but what I have is worth the price of being and having a friend.

I was not always that way. I leaned the hard way most people really are uncomfortable discussing taboo subjects. Very many painful and costly lessons for me. I just wanted to be understood so badly, but I was too messed up to set limits and boundries.

I do not want pity or to be patronized or fixed. Been there, done that.

 

[maryiscontrary]

Guys, lots of nuggets here, thanks!