If you put a frog in a boiling pot of water, it will thrash about trying to escape. If you instead put same from in a pot of water at room temperature, and slowly raise the temperature to boiling, the frog will not notice the raising temperature, and allow it'self to be boiled to death.
How Can One Accurately Gauge The Severity Of His/her Ptsd?
With me I can't accurately gauge myself most times. I have to muddle through the day and see how I react to people/things. Some days I think I'm doing well only to implode over something minor. Some days I think I will do poorly to a stressful situation only to perform quite well for my average. It's difficult for me to tell if I'm just in a bad mood, or if the beast is present (yes, there is a difference) until I just get just angry or explode (anger vs PTSD rage). Another aspect that shows some times is uncontrolled anxiety leading to a panic attack. Am I just anxious or am I on the slow burn anxiety day or the fast train to a panic attack? I won't know until the panic attack starts in full bloom.
Everybody is familiar with anger. A PTSD rage for me is difficult to remember. I say and do things I have almost no control over. Same with an anxiety attack, I'm hyper-aware during the attack, but after, I can't remember very many details of it. When PTSD symptoms hit, I'm hyper-aware of what is my focus of attention, tunnel vision, but not much else. My mental recorder doesn't record much, I hope that makes sense.
