KwanYingirl
MyPTSD Pro
my inspiration for this thread is the fact that very few threads created under the Avoidace category. If you see that many categories have thousands of threads, whereas Aoidance has only a couple hundred. I think this is interesting in that avoidance of memories or thought of them is one of the criteria of PTSD as described in the DSM. A defining trait of PTSD and not much written about. So that speaks to me because I am the queen of avoidance, much of it through my unconsciousness. I’m betting that Ithis is a tricky subject for most of us..
Hindsight is 20/20 they say and I can see how much of life I have avoided. Simple things like not wearing pants that zip up. That is a huge trait of mine. I wear dresses mostly, and elastic waistband pants. Or staring straight ahead with a death grip on my steering wheel when I go by a wooded area that upsets me because it reminds me of being raped in the woods. I could go on and on with examples.
I don’t know how to reduce my avoidance except to say that I am finally aware that I am this way and I’ve asked my t to help me at least face my fears, talk it out, challenge myself to take action and work out strategies to gain some mastery of this.
Hindsight is 20/20 they say and I can see how much of life I have avoided. Simple things like not wearing pants that zip up. That is a huge trait of mine. I wear dresses mostly, and elastic waistband pants. Or staring straight ahead with a death grip on my steering wheel when I go by a wooded area that upsets me because it reminds me of being raped in the woods. I could go on and on with examples.
I don’t know how to reduce my avoidance except to say that I am finally aware that I am this way and I’ve asked my t to help me at least face my fears, talk it out, challenge myself to take action and work out strategies to gain some mastery of this.