Analogy: My Ptsd Feels Like...

[timetorecover]

I am a MONSTER :alien:

 

[CaringMomma]

A scary, ever changing, roller coaster which I cannot get off.

 

[Zef]

PTSD feels like failure

 

[TeddySue]

It feels like I know where the safe cornfield is, with the log in the middle that I can sit upon, only to realize those horrible children who live the life of ease have followed me. I sit on the log for a moment in time before they break through the corn stalks and torment me with their presence, causing me to flee in panic back to the insane world I live in most of the time, across the road and up the lane.

 

[soulofLC]

Wow, your descriptions are all so poetic...

I just feel overwhelmed, angry, sad, or exhausted most of the time from trying to act and function like everyone else, the "normals".

And then, there are those days of joy, when I look at my dog and have to belly laugh.

Or another day when my grandchild gives me more love than I will ever feel that I deserve.

 

[CaringMomma]

((((((soulofLC))))))) Aren't children and animals great sources of unconditional love!!!!

 

[Tinyflame]

Like free-falling.

 

[Jen93]

My PTSD feels like.... a fog, and when it clears there's a movie happening 24/7 around me while I'm in a glass box like a Barbie Doll, powerless to stop it.

 

[soulofLC]

Wow, Jen93. That is good. I can relate.

So many of these descriptions are amazing! Many here have a knack for writing and self-expression that is amazing.

Fog, movie....I vasilate between the two.

The movies are scary and triggering sometimes. I like the fog best, but then wake up to lost time and opportunities.

 

[soulofLC]

Aren't children and animals great sources of unconditional love!!!!

There is nothing that compares to the love of a child or an animal. I don't know where I would be without them.

Will Rogers famously said that if there are no dogs in heaven, he did't want to go there. That is the way I feel. I want to see all of my kitties, my dogs, again. I will always love each and every one of them.

 

[Beverly G.]

It feels like sitting on the edge of a cliff wondering if you are going to fall or keep hanging on to the edge.

 

[intothelight]

Like I am taking a detour in life, get lost, and it takes me a while to get back on my path.