Poll Do You Like To Ride Roller Coasters?

[Justmehere]

Putting aside any fear or anxiety related to crowds, I'm doing this poll to see if people with PTSD tend to like to ride roller coasters, like the kind at amusement parks.

I generally do not enjoy ride roller coasters. They are all fear, not exciting to me. But a friend of mine with PTSD really likes them. She hates crowds, but she loves the roller coasters.

 

[Ed Norton]

I don't see the poll?
I like roller coasters. Even though I'm afraid of heights, I simply watch the horizon twist. Roller coasters pull sissy G, so they don't make me scream, even in the front car.

 

[Friday]

Also don't see a poll... ETA : I clicked yes since it doesn't allow more than one option, or have a "sometimes".

Most of the time I absolutely love them :D!!!

Last summer, however, I learned that if I'm already in an anxiety attack? Roller coasters & I do not get on. I had hoped the kick of adrenaline would smooth things out, the way it usually does. Nope. It just pissed me off. Royally pissed me off. I could have chewed nails.

The hilarious thing, was that a body guard on the property mistook me as working the same job. On a smoke break he complimented how I was scanning the crowds even while upside down! :facepalm: ( Ooooooh crushing embarrassment. Yep. I was so doing that. Also counting each and every single rusting rattling bolt and swearing a blue streak through my head about how this is the about stupidest way to die that I could think of.) As well as a few other tells: About how I was doing such a good job making sure my charge had fun / wasn't aware of all of the maneuvers I was pulling to keep him out of certain choke points, or crowds, etc. Yep. Dude pretty much just kept blathering on about how I was symptomatic as all get out, but covering it well. LeSigh. Apparently not all that well!

 

[Justmehere]

Posted from my phone, attempting to fix the lack of a poll now... sorry about that!

 

[Justmehere]

poll added :D

 

[falling_wave]

I don't see a poll. Roller coasters are a huge coping skill for me. They calm me and reenter me completely. It's like the adrenaline rush counteracts all the negative feeling I have and makes them positive. Last summer I went to an amusement park and got majorly triggered by something unrelated. I was trying so hard to get out of a funk and the people I was with made me wait in a long line for a roller coaster. I was seriously not doing well and could not keep from crying no matter how hard I tried. It was just so built up. Then I got on and by the minute or so it was done I was completely okay again and completely grounded plus the tears were dried. Lol

 

[Deleted member 1860]

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[Friday]

@kismet... I tell my son... It's not brave to eat happy cake! <grin> Birthday cake is a fun thing. In order to be brave? You have to be scared.

People who enjoy "scary" things? They're not scary. Not really. They're thrilling. They're fun. Not something they're actually afraid of. They're not being brave, because they're not afraid. There is no fear. There might be adrenaline in spades, but it's heart pounding excitement, not heart pounding terror.

Being brave isn't fun. It sucks. Being afraid isn't fun, it sucks even harder, IMO (because there's nothing to be done, and action kills fear. Sometimes slowly, sometimes fast, but it still kills the sucker).

I'm an adrenaline junkie. I looooove things that scare a lot of people.

Just because they scare others, though? That doesn't apply to me. Or other people who love love love _________. What we're actually afraid of? Doesn't matter if it's fluffy toothless declawed kittens. Fear isn't fun. Ever. The only real question is how hard it's going to suck.

Think of anything exciting that you love. Whether it's a good book, or new love, or a sparkle eyed debate, or anything. Absolutely anything exciting. That's the feeling those of us who like "scary" things get instead of fear. Quirky, huh?

 

[Deleted member 19804]

I hate rollercoasters but that's mostly because they make me feel sick, lol.

I once got motion sickness from zooming in too quickly on the street view option in the google maps phone app :')

 

[InvisibleSun]

I love roller coasters..love the adrenaline rush of the whole experience :)

 

[Flossy]

I hate them. Hate even looking at them.

 

[Meadowsweet]

No, I don't like thrill rides. I don't like the violent noise of them and I don't like the jerking and speed that things happen, and on the slower (kids) rides that I've challenged myself to go on, I don't like the restraints that hold you down, and that feeling that I can't stop it. Yikes, absolutely too many things that remind me of trauma.