Poll Do You Feel PTSD-Related Guilt?

[Deleted member 19804]

I selected sometimes, but that's mostly because of the antidepressants. If I weren't taking those, I'd probably select the "all the time" option.

I've been feeling guilty about not being good enough, for lying to my parents, for burdening the world with my eating disorder, depression and PTSD, for not working hard enough, for asking help for anything, etc. etc.

 

[Chris Taranta]

Ever Hear of Survivors Guilt?

 

[desiderata310]

Yes. Guilty over things that happened to me for not stopping them. Guilty for having these symptoms. Guilty that I can't get to a place to where I trust my therapist enough to get back in track. Guilty that I've been such a time suck and a pain in the ass. Guilty guilty guilty

 

[Sarah_Rose]

I feel guilt a lot. I feel as though I make my loved ones lives more difficult. I feel like I have some type of disability. I feel like I cause complications for almost everyone I meet. Even though I know I am doing so much better than I use to be, I still feel like I'm this huge burden. I feel guilty for not speaking up while it was happening. I feel guilty that I didn't have a chance to get a restraining order or press charges when I could have. I feel guilt surrounding almost all of it.

 

[Neverthesame]

Guilt? Oh yes. Always there, forever gnawing away from the inside out. I feel guilty about surviving. I know that I did everything I could, but I still believe I should have done more. I had a psychologist once sum it up rather well. He said "there are things that we know, and things that we believe". I know I am not to blame, but I don't believe it.

 

[Jester]

Guilt is a tattoo in my skin. I carry it with me wherever I go, even if I don't show it off. I have to fight with it constantly whenever I stand up for myself.

 

[TonyG]

I have no guilt

 

[Hansgrohe]

Yes. It feels like f*cking hell, although my experience with PTSD guilt may be different from others on here.

I feel guilty for treating other people like shit and being angry at them because of my PTSD, and just not knowing how to manage all that built up anger. Yet at the same time, there's the feeling of not feeling THAT guilty about it, because the PTSD sometimes doesn't let me control things entirely.

 

[Ellabella44]

i put yes, but its mostly because my husband and children have to deal with me like this. i became fully symptomatic over a year ago and im just starting to deal with it now that i know what this is.

 

[Numbalina]

If I'm left alone with my thoughts for too long, yes. If I'm being reminded of the things I need to take responsibility for, yes. And when anyone I love is telling me they want me to be there for them, Yes.

If it's guilt that has rattled me for hours on end, suicidal thoughts about it being better for everyone if ... Start occurring.

But we're trying to learn how to stop talking before it gets that far.

 

[Ronin]

I never know how to answer guilt questions. It's an ocean. Sometimes a comfortable swim and sometimes all hell breaks loose. It's the time I don't feel guilt at all, at anything of it, I usually seek/or-/need and wouldn't seek, ever, help. Because it's a way bad sign I need to get out of.

 

[holdenmonty]

When I feel guilty, its because I feel guilty for my family putting up with my stuff but I'm working on things and being better about apologizing when I notice that I have said something I shouldn't have even to drivers when my kids are in the car like when I call a driver stupid and my three year old says yeah stupid driver