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I Feel So Guilty Because People Make Fun Of Me

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I feel so guilty that I feel behind in life. 23 years of my life I feel is gone from me. I spent 23 years of my life trapped, shy and hiding who I was to please my family members. Nothing but repeated cycle of trauma over and over again with me not realizing. not realizing the problem with my life, not realizing I have PTSD, not realizing anything wrong because I always blacked my life out to escape reality. I felt trapped in a cage because I am a different girl and I get judged. I developed studdering and just noticed it. I have trouble speaking in conversation straight without talking or speaking slow. I freak out a lot and I get made fun of because people perceive me as a slow girl and I am not. Im not aware of what I be saying, all I know is I say it because my anxiety overtakes my speaking. I get judged alot but my own mother did not save me, someone else did. I was never protected by nobody. I missed on alot in life because of greed, and schemes. I look through these pictures asking what happened to me. I am just now having an opportunity. Idk anything...I be so confused. College is a struggle of a never ending degree. Someone had to sit down and explain something to me for me to wake up. Every time I try to read I get a headache and I am not understanding. My therapist appointment is approaching and I do not want to go because its in the city where I was getting beat for 2 years. I avoid almost everything to keep from being afraid. I had to go through the same path over and over again where something happened to me out of fear not knowing I drove 70 through the road. I pray everytime I am on that certain area. This entire State is a trigger because the State failed to protect me. The same thing happened to me over and over again. a never ending cycle of trauma. Now I am about to be set free. I dont have to be depressed anymore. I don't have to be scared to drive. I stay out of my truck because of repeated events that happens. I drive praying and trying to keep my anxiety down. My own family did not protect me. I didn't have the opportunity other kids had in life. I was suffering and didn't know it. People make fun of me because of the way I talk. I get called stupid because I did not want anyone to have my number. I want to break away. I want to be free. Everything has been repeated. I remember my father pushing a woman on a bed when I was young. He was rushing up trying to hit me always and even threatened me. He always have been abusive in every way as possible. People describe it as repeating history of trauma or a cycle. I just want to be set free. I feel trapped and 23 years I feel behind. I drive to another State (few hours away) to go to the gas station or food shopping. I work further and further away and do daily activties further away
 
Lauren, I'm sorry all of that happened to you. It's hard when we grieve what we didn't have in life. I hope you fulfill all your dreams. It sounds like you have a lot of ambition to regain what you lost and then move on with life. For many of us who suffered some form of childhood trauma, we become stunted in some ways, but it doesn't have to be forever. We can learn to work through those things.
 
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Lauren, I'm sorry all of that happened to you. It's hard when we grieve what we didn't have in life. I...
and im learning that. Its difficult when you dont know the reason of anything until something happens to you that brings your life to light
 
Speaking as someone the system also failed (took my elder sibling out of the family and left me at six with them (and taking the blame), I can utterly understand.

Definitely go to your therapist. If you're afraid of being recognized, what about taking a taxi? Maybe a large hoodie and some big sunglasses? When I'm feeling more anxious about being around people, I always pop on my sunglasses because it's like I'm free to watch and see, almost like a barrier keeping them out.

As for your stuttering issue, have you talked to your therapist about it? They may know some speech therapists who are familiar with trauma cases who can help.

And for people being nasty-there will always be those. They're not worth your time. If they can't see your worth then they're being pretty shallow and stupid themselves. Honestly, stuttering is a pretty small part of who a person is.

Other than some paragraph breaks :P You articulate well and you're in college. You're not stupid by any means. If they can't see past that, they're pretty blind, no?

The people who matter will see past it. Think of it this way: you get a free "shallow filter"-you're now automatically filtering out the people you probably wouldn't want to be around automatically. It's like a sign you carry that says "if you're too shallow, you're not someone I want to be around anyways."

Instead you get to skip right to the kind of folks you might actually like to spend time around without having to wait to find out who's a jerk. People who might be two faced, and vicious. Dropping those kind of folks out of your life sounds like a bonus to me.

I've had my own filter (I don't much anymore, but I'm not as social as I used to be) and it worked pretty darned well. I have better things to do with my time than vet every single person who comes into my life, and we only live so long. Every extra minute I could spend doing the things I wanted without having to wonder if someone I knew was a vicious shallow jerk was a double bonus <3

There are no dark clouds without some silver linings. :)
 
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