Poll Are You Anxious Filling Out Forms?

[Debi]

I can't believe this is a poll question. I relate this phobia to PTSD. PTSD is my closest enemy. I know its nature. I know its ugly head. When asked to give information in chronilogical order. it is virtually impossible for me. I can give name, address, social security number, driver's license or anything else that I can give validation for. I always feel as though I am a liar. I go the extra mile to tell the truth, but still feel as no one believes what I have to say. My personality reflects this severe anxiety...it doesn't matter if I don't believe it to be true (I am not a liar)....I have been so psychologically disfigured that I am not able...this would not be true if at least certain types of abuse had not been apart of my life.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

I have a huge problem with forms... i see one and automatically can't think and get extremely anxious. It seems to have something to do with putting any personal information out there for anyone or anything. Even if I know it is necessary, I get extremely panicky.

 

[cat]

No problem filling form in but remembering to post them back, that's another story!

 

[BlueFighter]

I can fill out forms if it asks the basic stuff(name, address, etc), but I dread the personal questions. I feel so disconnected from normal life that I just do not know how to answer questions about hobbies and what I enjoy. Answering a simple question about daily activities, I usually find myself lying because I am ashamed that I do not really "have a life".

 

[Britt.f7]

Depends on the forms. I also nitpick on the questions asked. Like when it asks race, and the answer is white. I personally think that is a color. Yes, I know it has different connotations. Or if they ask if you are married, divorced, single, widowed. I think it should just be married or single. Why do they need a reason for being single? I don't like I don't like if they only have Mrs and Miss. Why should men get away with Mr and not knowing whether they are married or single on that?

I also don't like to list if I'm depressed at the eye doctors or dentists. Or if there are stds that they need to be aware of when they aren't a medical doctor. No this does not mean I have them, I just don't like the question.

So, yeah, I guess I am pretty uptight with answering various forms, to say the least.:rolleyes:

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I have a hard time filling out forms. It makes me very anxious and I always have to use white out. I hate gathering information to fax people. I hate and loathe any kind of paperwork. I hate the hassle of it.

 

[Mason]

Thank you everyone. Now that I have an idea why I can't fill out forms. I have PTSD and it's linked to the awful struggle my son went to and the pain he experienced that I had to way to change. The hours I put into educating myself and being there for my wife who ended up leaving me and our 3 kids. I have struggled with forms to the point of sheer incapacitation and the where it almost made me and my kids homeless. I can run multimillion dollar operarions, but give me a form to fill out and I start shaking. I literally start shaking. I can't do it. I didn't know why for so long. I felt so ashamed and embarrassed and had so many people criticize me. I was told I had PTSD by one of my therapists but I have had to hide it because no employer wants to hear that and being that I'm a single father of three i can't risk them being taken away and being put into foster care. I know they are doing well because their therapists and teachers and everyone in their lives say that they have come a long way since their mother left and that they are doing very well adjusting. I put a lot of time into them and making them a priority. But what can I do about this form thing. I can't get anyone to help me. My parents talk trash about how incompetent I am and how i am going to ruin everything and my exwife laughs in my face about it. I'm struggling. What can i do.

 

[Changing4Best]

I said "Yes, always." and I have to admit that I got someone in Social Services to fill out my Social Security Disability Application for me, and it worked out really well, I got it in about a year with no lawyers involved!

 

[Pjj]

I hate forms, ocd goes with the territory so I end up rewriting the questions so I can provide specific answers or with multiple choice write in other options

 

[Crow]

Medical forms are difficult for me. Nearly impossible are forms surrounding a well woman exam. I actually called Planned Parenthood and made arrangements to pick up the forms a week before my appointment so I could fill them out before my pap. Went into the office not thinking about the protestors - so I got yelled at and called a baby killer going from my car to the door. And then the office staff refused to give me the forms saying I had to fill them out on the day of the appointment. I persisted asking them to check my files because the phone rep had put a message in my records. I counted for four hundred and they were still huddled over the computer and being quite rude to me so I turned and walked out. Still haven't gotten a well woman. Been about four years now.

 

[Iamsensative]

Anything that someone is going to look at my handwriting terrifies me. I write in a journal and i become terrified that someone will see my handwriting. My writing is horrible and i am terrified of being judged. Signing a check causes me anxiety. Its the worse feeling in the world.

 

[Gadgie]

Yea! I get flustered when it comes to filling in forms, so I always get help, which I really appreciate.

Its the same thing when talking to strangers, I get really anxious, and I start to stutter, my mouth goes dry, and it always makes me nervous?

Yet years ago, I was so confident, and had no problems at all like that, I used be an instructor, and part of that job was to do lectures, and have question and answer sessions, with classes of around thirty people.