Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[cat]

My ptsd feels like an alien, some days I know it others its like a stranger.

Today its a stranger......

 

[Helliepig]

Like an unseen sabateur, a twisting of reality, a load you can never put down..

 

[DeeDee]

Like... Loneliness, in my head all the time, everyone else is on the outside and not to be trusted.
Like...You're going to get beat up if you arrive late.
Like...I am hated and everyone wants to mess with me on purpose.
Like...My mind is working on overdrive and my heart needs a tune up.
Like...Hate, fear, rage, anger, sadness, and sorrow.

 

[The Albatross]

My PTSD feels like an amputation... or a lobotomy depending on what mood I'm in.

 

[Ricanoland]

My PTSD feels like I have a facebook profile picture, thats not me.

 

[freefloat]

Like a hole in my soul. Like a stranger in a strange land. Fire in stomach, fire in my head. That I must hold myself in such total control. Completely ruled by stress for nearly 50years. Feels like why do I bother.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Like I am an alien in a world of humans.

 

[melody]

Like something I can learn to cope and live with...

I truly believe that one day, I will come out on top. :)

 

[KP the nut]

Like it has been fooling me into believing I was managing my symptoms. I am such a gullible idiot to think that.

 

[LostBear325]

My PTSD feels like ... a broken record playing every terrible memory I have over and over again.

 

[Queen Boudica]

Like I have died and been reincarnated into another life full of problems and hardships that I have to struggle with but I am, at the same time, haunted by my previous lives that keep visiting me with horrible memories over and over and nightmares and triggers that change and influence my behaviour in my new life and stop me from living it to its full potential.

 

[Gloria]

I recently had a chemically induced heart stress test and it was exactly like being triggered by PTSD. I felt sick. My heart was pounding. I couldn't breathe and felt panic. That's exactly like waking up from a PTSD nightmare in the middle of the night. Now I wake up from the nightmares, I get a flashback of laying in the hospital bed gasping for air.