Poll Do You Swear More After Your Ptsd?

[raven123]

To me, the f-bomb is a great word. It has so many meanings. roflmao It does. I'm totally f-ing serious! LOL

 

[Anna]

I got a good one.

"Do you swear more after your PTSD?"

"f*ck yea"

:P

 

[Artfulone]

F*cking right I did, I still do but in the last year or so it has been lessening along with my symptoms. I find going to foreign countries for long holidays helps as swearing is not so accepted in some other cultures, so eventually one learns to swear less.

This was a great irony with my father, who almost certainly had PTSD from complex traumatisation, he used to try and wash our mouths out with soap for swearing, when we were ten. A few years later he had become less rigid and less anally retentative, he started swearing loads himself, after his symptoms had peaked. The fact that he was able to swear regularly, seemed to indicate that he had chilled out and become more sub-clinical in symptoms. I felt safer in many ways, because he had learned to chill more and to be more natural and a little more expressive and honest with life.

 

[aka]

Yes and no, I did not know any swear words as a young kid and I have no memory of a time before PTSD. That being said my use and acceptance of swearing has increased in the last several years.

 

[Privateer]

Having been, in my time, both a trooper and a sailor my vocabulary is colourful and lively to say the least. I don't think I could swear more without all my speech becoming an unbroken string of expletives.

 

[Britt.f7]

I think I have started swearing more in the last few years then I have ever in my life. Wasn't much of a potty mouth before, but, lately, I notice I swear a bit more. Usually mild words. Still I do not like it.

 

[Changing4Best]

Since I started therapy around the same time as my PTSD was diagnosed, I'd have to say I swear less. I poured my heart and soul out to my therapist and found less of a reason to swear at that time to anyone. I realized also that I did not appreciate being sworn at or having folks swear around me, as to me swearing means anger and I don't like to feel angry or to receive anger from others or see others being angry at others. Anger is upsetting, so why participate in it? It solves nothing as far as I can see. Instead, trying to talk calmly together and solving whatever the issue(s) are as best as possible makes a lot more sense to me.

Sometimes anger can still get the best of me though. Especially if someone is being angry with me for no logical reason and then there seems like there is nothing that is able to be solved. That will frustrate me to no end!

 

[Invisible-Guy]

Yes! I'm a truck driver on steroids now.

 

[Petchen]

The F word is my fracking friend! Good f*cking thing this place has auto censor otherwise I'd be screwed.

 

[Invisible-Guy]

I love the F word, It's an adjective, a verb, an adverb, a noun..... It's the most universal word in the English language :D

 

[Invisible-Guy]

If you're having a bad day and need a good laugh (albeit inappropriate) go to Wikipedia and look up the F Word. Not only is it comrehensive, but also teaches you how to say it in a bunch of other languages! Gettin' my weird on LOL

 

[txtrace]

I grew up around guys and worked in a male dominated field so I picked up their habits early and cursed a lot. Since the crash and PTSD diagnosis I've been out of that environment more (and when they are around me now they curse less) so I've found I curse considerably less.