Is It Just Me?

[joobie m]

or do other PTSD sufferers find themselves apologising for EVERYTHING they do?

I apologise for sneezing, not knowing what I am watching on tv, asking a question or even for feeling ill.

I have even been known for saying sorry for apologising.

I think I'm going mad

 

[kris]

It must be a thing of ptsd because I find myself doing this all the time. I apologize for EVERYTHING, I think sometimes people get annoyed at me for doing this and then I apologize for annoying them!

 

[James B.]

joobie m - it isn't just you, by a long shot. I went through a phase of it big time,
and every now and then, a little bit of comes back, but its gotten a lot better.

Gonna let others more savvy than I with trauma stuff explain why. A hunch in my case? Hyper-sensitive to rejection maybe or something along those lines.

Honest, a lot of my stuff was/is symptomatic of the incredible stress from living and trying to have a "normal life" with a whopping anxiety disorder *and*
un-healed trauma.

 

[AdamAnt]

My PTSDer is much the same. I tell her if she was half as sorry as I am about her being sorry, we'd both be so sorry for making the other sorry that we'd stop. Did that make any sense?....(I ain't sayin it!)

 

[joobie m]

thank you all :)

Its so nice knowing I am not the only one feeling like this. Yes AdamAnt it makes perfect sense.

 

[ScubaChick]

Oh yeah. I'm there. I apologize for everything even when I know that I'm justified in what happened. I'm afraid of rejection or someone being upset at me for something. One of my biggest apology quirks is getting off of the phone with my boyfriend late at night when I don't stay with him due to him having his kids, losing my cool over something (usually stupid) and calling him back about 20 minutes after we got off and apologizing and crying over my actions and how my mind is so messed up these days. I feel like if I don't apologize, no matter how late it is, he or whoever will hate me.

I hate it.