Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[BloomInWinter]

....that there is a life that I should have been living, and it was ripped away from my soul, ground up, and dumped in a forgotten wasteland on another planet.

 

[AngelaMarie]

A roller coaster ride in the pitch dark so I have no idea when the ups or down are going to hit me!

 

[Gloria]

A roller coaster ride in the pitch dark so I have no idea when the ups or down are going to hit me!

Did you ever go on Space Mountain in Disney Land?

 

[kimberley dawn]

Today: Like walking alone in the space between 2 old train-carriages without getting to any of the doors, but still seeing the people out there eating, drinking, chatting, laughing, sleeping with smiles on there faces....

 

[Marine/w/PTSD]

a blackhole

 

[AngelaMarie]

Did you ever go on Space Mountain in Disney Land?

Yes, I have Gloria!:) I get your thought here!;):confused::eek:

 

[Sazza]

Like swimming in the ocean and never reaching your destination

 

[ifonly]

Like running screaming and panicked inside a tall wooden house with an endless number of stairs to climb up, but no windows or doors. The house is trapped inside a hurricane ... its flying around & around a dirty, dry, desert sky. The house is being pelted by bricks, stones, trees, dirt, farm machinery, rocks & sticks.

I'm trapped inside the house.
The wind is loud. I'm very afraid.
But I can't get out.

 

[PerfectlyFlawed]

The trauma is never over. It just repeats itself over and over and over.

I feel old, like I have lived enough already.

 

[Sazza]

Taking one step forward and twenty back. Like life is stuck and moving nowhere.

 

[AngelaMarie]

A nightmare where all the windows and doors are locked and I am stuck in a house with someone or something always chasing me!

 

[Marie E.]

Like a bottle of champagne about to blow its top and shatter into a million pieces!