Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[Tessa]

Like being stuck in a wheelchair yet wanting to walk and when I try to get up I fall and have to rely on some help while crying that I don't need it and I want to be able to walk by myself.

 

[Stormy Eagle]

Like a BUNCH OF BULLIES are terrorizing me...every time I turn one is in my face, I try to turn around but before I can another one is tapping me on the shoulder...and laughing that sadistic laugh...everywhere I turn they are all laughing at me...I try to run from them but the follow, I can hear their their sadistic laughter following me whever I go

 

[Sazza]

Like moving forward and being slapped in the face by red tape and people who don't know me just judge me on my PTSD and symtoms.

 

[CaringMomma]

...a salmon who's single goal is to make it back to it's spawning grounds that are 10 miles up a raging river. It will swim and swim and swim against the current, dodging huge rocks, fish hooks, other animals, and shallow waters until it either makes it to the spawning ground or it grows tired and gives up the fight. Finding balance with PTSD is so exhausting.

 

[Marie E.]

Makes me feel like everyone around me is enjoying my literally exciting and dramatic life as if it were a movie.

 

[Marie E.]

I'm a playful lil kid for how much I love this forum and the people that are here :)

 

[VDWngr1355]

tug of war with in my brain- all the time!

 

[gigi2690]

A boa constrictor is crushing my rib cage, and there's a little man in my head drilling away with a jackhammer.

 

[shadowchaser]

I'm locked in a cage and the air is running out. Every time I try to call out for help it's just using one one more breath.

 

[maddog]

Like a flashing neon sign on my forehead that everyone can see, so that everyone knows, and even when I try to hide in the shadows, that flashing sign draws attention to me from people I didn't even know were there to look.

Maddog

 

[Srain]

It feels like every time I look in the mirror I see someone I had forgotten was there and a rush of old memories powers down on me until I can't breathe.

 

[Gloria]

Like the song from the movie Philadelphia. I'd walk a million miles just to shed this skin.