Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[The Albatross]

PTSD feels like I am dropped in the middle of a bad neighborhood, make it out with a few people tailing me, ignore the traffic lights and pass through a really dangerous intersection... stop and look back a where I was and get hit by a train because I didn't realize I was standing on rail road tracks.

 

[NIKI]

My PTSD makes me feel like a victim. I Do Not what to feel like a victim ANYMORE! I won't feel like a victim ANYMORE!

 

[Shelley_S]

My PTSD used to feel like a person who has been murdered but doesn't yet realize they are dead. Like a soul short-circuiting, bouncing back and forth chaotically between the land of the living and the land of the dead, unable to accept that my life has been prematurely terminated and go peacefully towards the light. Now, I accept that a part of me has died and will never return. I accept that my past negative experiences have helped shape who I am today, and made me a stronger, wiser, more compassionate person. I have learned that life is precious and fragile, and that the only thing we can really count on is change. And having experienced great pain and sorrow, I am better able to appreciate true happiness. To live in the light is to live in the moment, and take nothing and no one for granted.

 

[goingonhope]

My Ptsd feels both, physically and mentally, like knives are being jabbed in all of my back and too frequently so, for power, play and shit's and giggles.

 

[goingonhope]

I feel like I’m standing in a vast open field in the middle of a torrential downpour. I can barely see and can’t focus on anything around me. There is lightning and wind. There are things coming towards me but I can’t tell what they are. I can’t tell if they’re safe or dangerous. I can’t see well enough to have a plan to escape or attack. It is utter chaos.

Sh't do I ever remember this from some yrs. gone by; Wow, do I ever understand, .....and I empathize.

Now its up to you to become :ninja:ninja like and slay and kick the sh't out of this Ptsd. Select some suitable spiritual weaponry as well (like exactly what's good for your health and fuels your spirit) and take it along with you upon this chaotic 'Get it done' journey.

(smiles) and do take care Happy Head.

goingonhope

 

[Happy Head]

Thanks goingonhope - I like your name... hope. That's what's been feeding me lately...:tup:

 

[Tinyflame]

Like trying to go forward only to realize that my life is on a merry-go-round.

 

[intothelight]

Like boulders being placed on my chest, one by one.

 

[nie]

Like being trapped in a room with no windows or doors, hoping that you are going to wake up from this nightmare, only to realize it is really your life.

 

[a3a2]

Like I am wearing heavy chains. SLowly, slowly, with a lot of work, I can manage to get one off of me and get a little further.

 

[Heather]

Right now my PTSD feels like someone cut open up my head and dumped a bowl of oatmeal into my brain.

 

[goingonhope]

My Ptsd feels very sharp-like, as well as achey, like I imagine knives to feel if they were inserted and then twisted from the right to the left as if stripping and prying apart bones from flesh. :devilish:

I'm trying to respond to another thread and this is exactly how too great of stress, anxiety and Ptsd are presently manifesting physically in my body. I felt it necessary to remove it from what I'm trying to respond with there because of it's description. However, to exclude writing it entirely could mean for me to minimize for myself or outright deny this reoccurring pain I'm in. :tdown::confused::tdown: So thought perhaps I'd it include it here.