Poll Do You Swear More After Your Ptsd?

[StarChild]

Yes, I swear really a lot more, than before the PTSD. Sometimes I think, I'm a kind of volcano. The eruptions are unpredictable. Even small unimportant incidents can cause an tremendous flood of swearing.

 

[4gtfl1]

I was very reactionary to my emotions, but I'm trying to regulate. still swear, but not as much. It's a work in progress. Darn words are just so handy sometimes.

 

[zaniara]

I never thought about this.. But since I have had PTSD all my life, I don't know what I would have been like without it. But I know that when I have a bad period, and the PTSD is worse(it was a little bit better at times, before the last big trauma), I swear more. Am ashamed when I do, but never understood that it was connected to my PTSD. But yes. When I'm stressed out and not feeling ok at all, it gets worse. Working on it...

 

[Still Alive Inside]

I had to smile and shake my head at myself for this poll...

Sometimes I am shocked when I hear people who cuss a lot. It sounds so crude and, well, mean. It makes me think, "Omg, do I sound like that?"

I cuss ALL the time, it's a part of my regular expression. It's only when I hear others cussing that makes me realize how I must sound.

 

[pumpkinpie]

I was not permitted to even use the word "pee", or even "butt" growing up! Huge no-no to swear, although my father did all the tme. When I was 15, I started to swear in my sleep, then whenever having sudden pain such as stubbing my toe. An automatic F-bomb with rage.

I was having my broken tibia manually reset in an ER a couple of years ago, and I knew this was going to hurt a lot. I also knew that since they were giving me Versed to sedate me, I would not remember it so I warned them.

Afterwards, I asked them if I had sworn. They were laughing, and said that I had said " a few choice words"...:eek:

Pumpkinpie

 

[WillThereBeCake]

I won't admit that I have a potty mouth, but let's just say that I have been asked if I suffer from Tourettes ;) I am careful around children, and police officers, and people with heart conditions, but everyone else is fair game. Ten minutes around me and you'll remember all the fun words you learned at daycare.

 

[Upside Down Eagle]

I definitely curse more... somehow it helps me cope. It just feels good to scream swearwords when there's not much else I can do! I almost never do that in public, however. I have done it a couple of ocassions in which strangers were being completely rude to me (like this one dude on his motorbike that screamed some dumb stuff at me as he drove by just milimeters from where I was standing... I screamed some bad stuff back at him... it felt good)

When I lived in my other house, where there was traffic coming by twenty-four seven, I swore at every car that came by... good thing there was nobody there to witness me, because I would have come across as a complete lunatic. When I have to go in public transport I also tend to curse at everybody, whispering it or sometimes just in my mind. It's like a silly defense mechanism... calling them stupid among other things and tell them to 'get lost' (or worse) just so I can have a little bit the idea that I defended myself against them (even though in reality, they would probably not want to harm me).

Otherwise I just curse at every object in my house when it doesn't do what I want it to do (like when things fall down, or the shower gets too hot/cold, when my computer is being annoying...)

 

[Deleted member 1860]

Well I wasn't swearing as a toddler, so yes, my cussing has increased! But seriously, I don't cuss all that often.

 

[Lina007]

It all depends on the company. Close friends or by myself? Like a sailor, if it's appropriate. If I see someone is sensitive to foul language, I'm in public, or in a circumstance wherein it would be inappropriate, I don't curse at all.

 

[ResaLock]

Wow! Yes!
I do not swear often, and only sometimes; more less than more. I only do it when I am really angry, but not every time I am angry. Swearing actually bothers me and I still don't like it when I hear it. I think it mostly bothers me, because mostly (not all) swearing has an aggressive or angered assertion mixed with mostly genitalia expressions. That is how I view swearing. So I do not swear, unless I get highly angry. It does even bother me. I mostly get angry when I feel like I am being mind r*p*d, or to say mentally violated continually. I used to never swear before my P.T.S.D. No I think I did twice- I was really stressed and being abused. I was shocked the first time I did. I was about a rough estimate of 26yrs old.

 

[jocko]

I am now. I used to have a real temper but it got beaten down by all the retard adults with their mind games and power trips and just like flipped into a constant state of anxiety that just got worse. Now I'm older and can see the past maybe more clearly now and the impossible hole it feels like I'm stuck in, feeling cut off from everyone else without a clue how to fix it all, just drifting along like an ugly ghost. I feel like smashing the sh*t out of stuff alot and ranting & cursing to make up for all the years of being compressed into a tight obedient castrated ball of crazy insane.

 

[Ti Vu]

Reviving. I used to swear excessively, I feel, before all of this. Every sentence I spoke or thought I had contained at least one F and one S. Sometimes more. Most of the time more. Never gave it too much thought or used it out of frustration, surprise or anger, it was just "a part of me", I guess:p But now, I don't say them out loud as much. They're still pretty frequent in my head though.