Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[AngelKeeperJ]

PTSD make me feel like:
Someone else took over my life, when I wasn't looking.
I'll never find happiness in a relationship, cuz I quit looking.
The black sheep of the family.

 

[goingonhope]

When really worn-down, triggered and/or doubly symptomatic, my Ptsd feels like being brutally attacked and randomly beaten with a baseball bat, while the attacker is standing tall, smiling overhead at me and I'm most clearly beaten and overcome, and yet the attacker is still yet not satisfied.

 

[blueangel371115]

My PTSD feels like I'm chained to a treadmill, running even though I'm exhausted, listening to my flaws being pointed out over and over.

 

[Spero3]

My PTSD feels like war. I am forever in a test of will with my own thoughts. From the time I wake up until the time I go to sleep I fight to stay focused and calm instead of leaping from one scary thought to another.

 

[BloomInWinter]

Like my 'self' was built up with shards of broken glass stuck together with glue, and then the glue got too old, and all the shards collapsed and broke in even more pieces....and now I have to try to pick up one at a time without getting cut up too bad.

 

[Gloria]

It feels like ice is running through my veins. It feel like I'm in outer space and I'm totally disconnected from earth and all alone with no one to protect me.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Like I am lined up against the wall to be executed. The firing squad starts shooting, horrible thoughts and memories, that hit me one by one, my body reeling from every shot. Over and over I am shot all over my body. I am in pain and crying. I am helpless there is nowhere to go, nowhere to run. I am frozen.

But when the round has finished and they have run out of bullets. I am still there. I am still standing. I am taken away to be bandaged and fixed up. A bit of respite until the next execution date.

 

[Spero3]

Lizio,

Hauntingly accurate description!

Spero

 

[Queen Boudica]

Like the "Alien" is growing in my stomach, slowly consuming me. I am trying to ignore all the signs, the pain and the fear and I just go along and get on with my life. But then the pain gets so overwhelming and that Alien monster violently erupts from my stomach and starts consuming me from the inside and out.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Like I am one of those patients from the film "Awakenings" I am frozen with fear. Someone shows me the way, by drawing the grid on the floor for me to follow so I shuffle a little bit forward, towards the light of the window. Then I freeze again, because I can't see the way forward any more and my mind shuts down again.

 

[Tinyflame]

Like isolation, alone.

 

[Sandra]

I'm a loner.