Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[Kim]

Swimming in quicksand -- the more I struggle to free myself the faster I seem to sink.

 

[Sazza]

Like kim as seems very relevant to me, don't like in sense its suffering but i mean cause i couldn't said it better myself.

Today mine feels like an existance, every corner i turn something comes to knock me back. I feel stuck in that sand Kim mentions, some days it feels like im doing time.

 

[Ron]

Swimming in quicksand -- the more I struggle to free myself the faster I seem to sink.

Are you seeing a pychiatrist or a trauma counsellor? When I didn't know I had PTSD I did everything to cure myself. And then one day I gave up, and saw my doctor who referred me to a pychiatrist. When your lost, stop spinning your wheels and get all the help there is !

 

[Kim]

Hi Ron,

After seeking help many times I have finally been correctly diagnosed as having PTSD / Complex Trauma. I've been seeing a Psychologist for a month now and we've begun chipping away at the tip of the ice berg. He specializes in "adult trauma survivors".

 

[AshleeCakes]

I'm not sure if I spent more time chuckling or nodding my head in agreement to these. I was telling a friend today that its like having a million different moods with a million different severities. They all hide behind corners in your head, wearing Tammy Faye masks, and wait to jump out and scare you. You always know she's there, but you have no clue which corner she's behind and no way to kick her out. You just have to keep going and wait for the mental assault.

 

[Sethe]

It feels like I'm Han Solo frozen in f*cking carbonite.

Immobile.

Helpless.

Frozen in time.

 

[intothelight]

Like invisible fencing; and when I cross a line I can't see, I get zapped.

 

[Nighthawk]

Feels like treading on ice what move ore step will break it. The cracks are always there and the fall is cold and lonley and many other things.

NH

 

[Sazza]

Today it feels like I am trying to swim in a deep sea but getting nowhere, instead I'm drowning in the darkness that I am feeling.

 

[Campari]

Like a living death.

 

[wife of]

Blackpool beach,a new tide of sewage each day!

 

[Addy]

My PTSD feels like pots and pans with boiling water in them... I want to keep the memories contained with the lids on the pots... but the water keeps boiling over and spitting out and scalding/burning me... it's tormenting and so very hard to keep the lids on.