Association Of Guilt With PTSD

[anthony]

A significant factor in PTSD is the guilt one obtains because they believe they have failed somehow, somewhere, in that they now believe they have become weak to obtain such an illness. There is a very good explanation that goes with this, which I believe will help people to see a more appropriate approach to remove their self -guilt for obtaining PTSD.

At some time in your life, you have most likely cut your finger with a knife. If the blade was blunt, then you may have only suffered a little nick. If the blade was sharp, you have have bled all over. If the blade was very sharp, and the force behind it was great enough, then you may have lost an entire finger.

Now...the extent of the injury depends upon the sharpness of the blade and the power behind it, more so than the toughness of your skin as such. Given enough force, even extremely tough skin would not protect you from the knife, and anyone else in the same situation would also be injured - even if they had the toughest skin in the world.

The same holds true on a psychological level. There are events in life that would make almost anyone "bleed all over." It is such events that make people susceptible to PTSD.

So from this you can hopefully see, that regardless of how tough you are, there are forces within life that are powerful enough to break the toughest skin, or in the case of PTSD, the toughest minds.

 

[JSTANLEY]

what a wonderful explanation, I really associated with the above, and it gives you a whole lot more insight into why PTSD sufferers have such a feeling of guilt

 

[TLight]

I wish all those wonderful people in my life who have blamed me or called me 'weak' would read this and apologize.............bad humans.

 

[anni]

It is a really accurate explanation. My guilt wants me to believe there's something wrong with me because I should now be able to grow a new finger. At least maybe I can use this article to try to beat that self defeating little blurb out of my head. Thank you.

 

[RubyNicole]

Wow. I really like this. It's so utterly simple, but has eluded me for so long. This put a smile on my face!

 

[Scuzieq]

Very well put, and will be helpful as I repeat this simple concept in my mind. Thank you.

 

[Brontie]

I like this simple explanation. We suffer something that results in PTSD, an event or a situation that we have perhaps seen others recover from, and yet here we are beating ourselves up because we still struggle to cope. Everyone is different. Hard-hats will seem to be able to carry on with their lives while some of us are still wondering what hit us.