Do you ever just hate everyone?

[EveHarrington]

@AddHomnym, if I could "like" your response twice, I would! I totally agree with y...

The thing is that no emotions are negative. Emotions are just emotions, and they all deserve to be recognized and felt. Pushing the negative emotions away doesn’t actually make them go away. They find a way to come out in the end.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I'm tired of pretending I am calm and happy and fine when I'm not. I just find that, now that I have PTSD, emotions are more fierce and stick for longer periods of time. I'm wondering if anyone else finds the same thin

Many, many years ago, when I had been in therapy for a few years, I went through a very rebellious phase where I just hated the superficiality in the world and if anyone asked me how I was I would get so very angry and spout off some kind of off the wall response and I was so our of control with my hatred for so many things. It is many, many years later and my emotions still explode but not as often as it used to be since I have so many things about life. I have calmed down so much and the question how are you no longer triggers me at all and I am able to converse with people. I think it is a PTSD thing we all go through in our maturing process and for some it is more extreme than others depending on the person. I no longer hate the entire world anymore. It has been hard. I went through so many years of hating everyone I think I got stuck there, besides having an incompetent therapist. You are going to be just great give it time. Keep on learning. Good luck.

I have found I have a much lower tolerance for dealing with people in general. If I stay too long with others, I get annoyed and angry.

This happens still for me. Thank you for putting in such a way to understand. PTSD just continues along and it is up to find ways to manage our symptoms as imperfect as we all are. I hope that you will gradually be able to increase tolerance when you are ready to.

 

[Rani G2]

get why it frustrates him, but I'm tired of pretending I am calm and happy and fine when I'm not. I just find that, now that I have PTSD, emotions are more fierce and stick for longer periods of time. I'm wondering if anyone else finds the same thing?

Yes Chemlady.... I do. I feel intense emotional-thought patterns and there is this part of me that says " Humans are unthankful, disloyal and disrespectful creatures and should be wiped off".

 

[Chiqui]

Oh!! Yes. For years, but no anymore.
Only a few now...

 

[Multitudes]

Emotions are just emotions, and they all deserve to be recognized and felt.

Very well said!

Not only is expressing anger and sadness socially frowned upon, but trauma sufferers/survivors are also made to feel invalidated, disempowered, worth-less, and that our feelings don't matter, leaving us entertaining a misanthropic attitude that does nothing helpful except foster the possibility of further abuse.

All feelings matter, even when some might find them distasteful or frightening, because we all matter!