Poll Are You Anxious Filling Out Forms?

[shiraz]

Anxiety off the scale with forms ... for me it is about memory ... remembering stuff on demand, I go blank. I always carry a little book around with me which has all sorts of info in it from my birth date and address to account numbers, just in case, It is always there. I won't even pick up a phone call without it handy. People can ask you the strangest stuff when they want to validate they are speaking to the right person (careful of fishers) .... anyway ... it helps to diminish anxiety if i have more than one copy of the form in case I make mistakes, and my little book handy.

I also try to ensure I get forms emailed to me early, that way I can take my time with them and take breaks when filling them out.

 

[BethRSA]

I hate filling in medical/insurance forms. All the rest are fine.

Because I'm still single (never married) and involved in mission work, I feel that someone will judge me if I have to write pregnancies (1), children (0). It just brings up the whole miscarriage issue again. When I have to go to a new doctor, I have to "psych" myself up beforehand that I will tell the truth about the miscarriage. In this issue, it was much easier when I "forgot" about the pregnancy/miscarriage for 5 years.

 

[Marie E.]

I just want to tear the forms up thanks to PTSD screwing up my concentration.

 

[Grace11]

For me, it depends on the form. Lately, with the job applications, it's been quite a problem. Reducing myself to paper is quite depressing to me when I have to disclose too much....I don't look good on paper anymore, and I used to look nearly pristine. It's hard for me to fill out, see, and process afterward. I don't feel like the forms represent the real me.

 

[Gamereign555]

At first I couldn't fill out forms without help, I had trouble watching anything on TV also. Not so much the content just the act of processing everything going on.

 

[BrazenBull]

I was sent to the guidance counselor because of a little problem that i wouldn't talk about
and I had to fill this form out with lots of questions regarding what i think about my family, other people, and how i would react to certain situations
1)my right hand was swollen and bleeding
2) I couldn't answer some of the stuff and wrote IDK for about half the questions
I .... walked out of there all nervous and stuff i just couldn't do it ._.
even for stuff like address, phone number, etc. i just left it blank :X I probably messed up

 

[OKRADLAK]

Yes for two reasons. Intrusive and also who do I answer? I can't figure out the answers.,

 

[somethingswrong]

I thought I was the only one, and that I was just being uuhhmm "MENTAL"' but filling out forms brings out some of the most anxiety in me. My wife is having a hard time with this and I cannot fill out any medical forms and try to remember dates, times, medications, it all gets ugly and goes down hill from there. I have been rejected over and over again, because I will put off filling out a form, or application that has deadlines, because it almost feels like a phobia to me...
I have lost contracts, insurance etc. over this... I do not know if it is part of PTSD if anyone on the forums knows more about this form phobia and why it shows up in PTSD I would really like more info on it.

 

[BrazenBull]

I also thought I was just being weird, for being anxious about filling in forms xD
weird though, I can type things up and tell other people online about stuff but I cant seem to write things down on a simple form.

 

[Srain]

I use to be able to fill them out just fine but since psyche break down and now not changing my name or moving every few years, med info going into computers and such, I don't like it. I give as little as possible. I'm leery and don't readily sign anything. I am incapable of reading directions, always have been, I read them backwards when faced with having to read them, it's embarrassing.

I am quite good at doing them for other people! So this is really about being emotionally involved and not thinking logically.

Good poll!

Rain

 

[aditi]

Yes, but it's not really anxiety as such. It's something weird that happens since the trauma, in that all of a sudden I stop being able to see! It's not being able to concentrate I suppose, like I couldn't read a novel for almost three years after the trauma. The words start dancing and my writing deteriorates very quickly. Ends up as scribble and mostly wrong answers! Agree with Rain, it's a whole different matter if I'm helping somebody else ... although I have never liked forms because they're usually about some form of feeling that you're begging for something or trying to validate your existence. Maybe that's just my mental state. :rolleyes:

 

[Gamereign555]

My therapist told me something about my problem with filling out the forms, reading, understanding and watching TV. It was something to the effect of " Nervous system trauma is effecting your ability to do these things, its translating to stress on your system because you literally have to rebuild those systems, this is also pretty evident of nervous system trauma in the first place."

To me, its almost as if the situations, like reading or watching TV were presenting a problem. Like your nervous system was telling your brain that your body wants to move faster than it really needs to. So your just sitting there trying to be peaceful, but your body just wants to jump inside the television and interact with what is going on. TV is more stressful on the brain than I thought and so is filling out forms. Filling out forms in particular, you have to read, write, and understand what they are asking of you and be willing and able to put that on paper.

These problems for me are hopefully a thing of the past, due in part to probably one of my exposures or rebuilding.