Poll Do You Have a Sense of Impending Doom?

[Lisa]

Do you have a sense of impending doom?

I have such a sense of impending doom that I am always waiting for the next bad thing to happen, all the time.

 

[batgirl]

Yes I do too Lisa, although I voted "often" rather than "all the time". It used to be all the time for me but it seems to have improved a bit. I think living with my family helps me personally, because I have someone to fall back on if something bad happens. I do worry about them dying though...

 

[Marlene]

I voted 'occassionally'. It used to be all the time, but as my symptoms have gotten better, this feeling has gotten better, too.

I still worry about my family when they're away from home. I've found that I'm now able to verbalize to my family my fears and that's helped to take a lot of the sting out of that fear.

Lisa

 

[Deleted member 93]

I went with occasionally. I used to be every moment quite a time ago. When I feel this way it is part of a major panic attack, one of the first symptoms, or did it trigger it? Either way I don't do this as often where used to it was almost all day daily. Lots of improvement for me since I came here.

 

[reallydown]

I went with "all the time"...both on a personal level and the world in general.

 

[reallydown]

Btw, great poll Lisa :)

 

[grace5555]

Yes, Lisa - all the time and it sucks.

 

[SwordsPandaGirl]

Yes all the time :(

 

[franciemarnie]

Before I was diagnosed with PTSD, I had that sense more often. But then after diagnosis and after recovering from a nervous breakdown, I haven't had it much at all. I don't know if it is because for me - my brain was in a PTSD state of emergency all the time and not understanding that, I just responded to that inner state of high alert as an (unfounded) premonition that something bad was going to happen but it never did. It was just stress hormones gone nuts.

Now if I have that rare sense it usually turns out to be an intuition of someone I know dying and it turns out true.

 

[ms spock]

All of the time.

 

[Dee Morris]

All the time here. I feel like I'm constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop.

 

[Philippa]

It used to be much more often for me, and it was world wide. I was a self-confessed "doomer" and I hung out with other 'prophets of doom' (one boyfriend actually called himself that in a poem he wrote.)

Now it is occasionally. That's progress I guess.