A Question.

[The Albatross]

This is the place I work through my issues, diary and have access to peers... to me it's sort of like going to college. But I maybe could loosen up a bit. Heh @Saelben ... naaaawwwww, I'll keep my nose to the grind stone and keep bumping along, it's gotten so much better than I was when I arrived here (at the forum). Room for improvement, yeah a good amount too, but much better.

Hey @Chimera - you're welcome, such a diverse group here, but a common theme... we all have or support people with PTSD.

 

[Changing4Best]

I find that I cannot read trauma diaries. That is kind of where I draw the line. ALl else I can pretty well deal with, but that is too much for me. So I stay mostly in Social and here in Discussion. I venture out into other areas of the Forum occasionally. I do enjoy chat a lot too, of course.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

@SheilaKathy
Yea, I don't hang much in trauma diaries either... I'm mainly in chat, but when I can think and concentrate a bit, I go to different PTSD sub-forums

 

[Gadgie]

I step back from posts that are written in one massive paragraph with no spacing. Just the idea of reading all the way through it, put me off from starting?

I find them very hard to read as I keep losing my place, and I need reading glasses anyway, so that makes it all that bit more difficult to read?

Although some of them are very interesting, I find that once I get a few lines into it, I lose my way?

Is this just me, or do other folk find themselves doing the same? I don't want to get on the wrong side of anyone, as it's not my intention to offend anyone.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

I can relate @Gadgie

I cannot keep my attention long enough for really long posts, so sometimes I read them in more than one go...

 

[Stickler]

I don't usually get triggered, but I've been reading trauma stories since 2008...I think kind of instinctively trying to jiggle SOMETHING loose...or maybe pre-desensitize myself...honestly not sure?
But I can read pretty horrible stuff now.
Started recovering buried memories in 2011.
It wasn't so much what happened...what can be told...as it was the betrayal and the soul killing aspects of it...you can't capture or describe soul murder.

...I guess we all have our tolerance limits.

 

[Chimera]

Me too @Gadgie and @Saelben, for different reasons, I have a difficult time processing when flooded...
but I also get that type of writing...fearing if you don't get it out you will lose courage..I can understand the flood of information shared as it, for me is how I process sharing the deep. Few ppeople can look at it without being impacted, especially us, who relate.
I have become proficient at self editing. Not really good for me. This something I learned in others disapproval of my sharing and I bought into after enough time...I constantly edit myself and I despise it.

@Stickler Maybe we can't really describe or capture it, but we can sure feel it and sadly, in many cases, remember it.

 

[seedling]

I felt sick to my stomach just after signing up here. A day long sick panic.

Took me a long time to post or to like anything.

Took me a long time to let anyone know I am a member here. I still am not open about it.

Was, and still am, afraid when I post, that someone will be mad, that I have offended someone.

Used to post and then, later, go over and over it in my head and feel like it was all so stupid and why did I post that.

It gets better! This place is so great :)

 

[Gadgie]

Quote.........."It gets better! This place is so great :)"

Yea! that's exactly what I thought when I found this site. You shouldn't be afraid to post though, after all, you are amongst people who are all in the same boat, we are all suffering.

We are just sharing our thoughts and fears, and getting rid of our frustrations, so don't be afraid, your amongst friends here.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

@Gadgie
The wierdest circle of friends :P

 

[Gadgie]

Aye! well you know what I mean, I feel like I'm amongst friends when I'm in here.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

Yes :) It's amazing how well all of this works