Poll Do You Believe That Ptsd Effects The Way You Operate In Society?

[SpokaneSunshine]

Not quite sure how to answer, but I would say yes it definitely has impacted me. I've always been a very private person, but these past few months I've taken it to extremes. I'm recently divorced so I live alone, and I don't socialize with friends often. I was dating a guy, but he wasn't healthy for me, so we broke up. Most of my socializing is when I go out on a drinking or gambling binge, and then it's just talking with dealers, players, and bar flies.

I don't talk to anybody at work, even less than I did before. Don't even say hi. Also, my work suffers. I will plan to do something and not follow-through, correspond a letter but never have it mailed, etc.

Going out in public stresses me out, but I don't think that anybody is going to hurt me per say. I think I'm more frightened that something might happen which requires my intervention, and I will fail miserably like I did before, and people will die because of it. I also avoid any sort of confrontation, because even I realize rationally that people don't just walk around committing suicide in front of others, there is something in my mind that makes me fear it very terribly.

 

[ProductOfSociety]

I completely do.
I can't make friends or connect with others. I always keep my distance.
'Safety first'. That's how I think... all the time.

 

[Gamereign555]

Currently yes, without a doubt it effects the way I operate in society. I don't quite have the self confidence in decision making yet, I sometimes feel I'm at the threshold of anxiety and panic when it comes to work, service, just communicating isn't what it used to be.

 

[CraftyCath]

I use to have friends. Since the PTSD I have become more and more isolated. I am not frightened of meeting people and come across as very sociable but I am frightened of letting people get close. I expect them to turn on me and to treat me badly.

 

[Wobbly Joe]

I hate being around people now. I have lost all tolerance for the stupid things most people think are important.

 

[ProductOfSociety]

I had an anxiety attack at work today. People with their sharp angry voices.

 

[Girl3]

Since I have only known I have PTSD for a year now, I didn't know that all of my interactions over the past 5 decades were my PTSD - how people,places,things affect me and how I interact with my environment are all related to my PTSD. Learning to register my emotions (which I still have a terrible time with) and say to myself I am angry - what frightened me? Or not every man is out to rape and hurt me. So I have lived nearly my entire life within the construct of PTSD.

 

[CraftyCath]

I had an anxiety attack at work today. People with their sharp angry voices.

Hi ProductOf... this happens to me a lot.

 

[The Albatross]

Absofriggin'lootly. :O_o:

 

[thinlizzy4010]

oh wow, i just realised how lucky I am. I can venture out, I fully control any adverse reaction I might have in groups etc... although as i age and life stresses add up, I am less in control of my emotions and get anxious that i might show the "cracks" if i am in public. The abuse that i suffered has definately coloured my world. Some things are more subtle, some things i can hide. i am only just learning exactly who the ptsd me is and who the real me is.

 

[jo may]

I only get the bus if mark is with me or I panic. I hardly leave my house and do if I'm with someone I trust.:poop:

 

[Lina]

I want to deal with society as little as possible.