Relationship Came Across This Description Of Ptsd

[Fadeaway]

@seedling and @Chava. There are so many times in the past where I should have been angry, anger would have been the correct emotion to feel at that time. I wanted to be angry, but I didn't know how to be angry. Anger feels so weird once you do break through, then comes the fun part of learning how to manage it. I'll be the first to admit I fell into a passive aggressive style. Very unhealthy.

I have never self injured out of numbness. I have only ever self injured as a way to distract from intense emotional pain.

 

[seedling]

"Bored with feeling numb"; that just sounds strange to me.

I found/find the numbness to be the most painful and tragic part of PTSD. So, to search for feelings, any feelings, seems to be what I do. Even if those are painful ones. I don't think we have to create or cause pain, the pain just is. Trauma re-enactment - yes, certainly. I call it the "going back to Iraq" urge (I'm not a vet, it's my take on the movie "Hurt Locker" where he goes back in the end) - unfinished business, go back to where you can feel something.

 

[seedling]

@Fadeaway I'm finding out how fun and empowering it can be to be assertive. It helps with the passive agressive side of it for me. Maybe it's believing that my point of view matters and I can say what I think without being defensive or having to minimize others.

 

[KwanYingirl]

I've read some of Beatties writing. It doesn't surprise me that she would include such a random uncredible quote. She has no credibility as far as I can tell. Just an average writer riding the wave of self help literature. Oops, scratch that. She doesn't write literature.

 

[Digz]

People who have PTSD have three basic feelings

Really? Do tell!
Not overly simplistic at all!! :P

 

[Friday]

@KwanYingirl

Self help authors have 2 basic intelligences... Dumb, & dumber. Occasionally they get bored with causing pain and move on to write numbing literature. ;)

 

[Digz]

Hahaha! I like that @FridayJones .
Reminds me of an episode of Southpark with the Underpants Gnomes, with their 3 step plan for making money.
Step 1 - Collect underpants....
Step 3 - Profit.
I feel this author may have planned their writing in a similar way.

 

[Lilmssunshine]

You guys crack me up! Too funny.

 

[Lilmssunshine]

At least instead of getting offended you guys are using humor. That's great! You all are very resilient people.

 

[WillyKat]

@FridayJones, I now know why I often turn away from self-help books. Thanks.

 

[meltot]

I'll give her this: she's getting somewhat close to hinting at the categories or states I'm in while experiencing PTSD symptoms—I'm fairly normal otherwise. I have incapacitating anxiety or adrenaline-y fear, I have active but checked-out numbness, and then I have can't-get-out-of-bed depressive episodes. Generally two kinds of ups and two kinds of downs. I certainly have a defensiveness if I feel threatened, but I never, ever, ever lash out in anger. In my old self-harming/eating disorder days, I did so for either the control it provided or the endorphins because I was hurting, not boredom and to make something happen—and that isn't even an essential part of PTSD. Her misinformation can be harmful, and could lead a real PTSD sufferer to bastardize their condition on not measuring up to this description, or cause a supporter seeking to understand to believe the wrong thing about their sufferer!

 

[Weemie]

you hurt my feeling!

i have only one... psycho death rage