Name Something Positive That Has Come As A Result Of Your Ptsd?

[Tinyflame]

In reality, my minds clear because I block out my entire history so I can function.

I so wish I could still do that.

 

[Freedomfighter]

Since starting treatment just over 4yrs ago, the one thing that I've gotten from my work has been ne...

Despite the daily pain of PTSD it has helped me to discover myself, learned about myself a lot too. Not sure if that is enough to really make a difference though. Because when small or big negative things happen I go into anxiety overdrive and it is the anxiety that is sooooo stressful. What good could I possibly report about that?

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Made a lot of really great friends on here because of it :)

 

[EveHarrington]

Made a lot of really great friends on here

How do you make friends here? I still haven't figured it out. Thanks.

 

[Deleted member 33052]

I found my tribe because of it.

 

[heyheyhey]

Well, sometimes I feel like I am on a variety of cool drug trips haha. A lot of the time, the intense mood swings, dissociation and whatever else are all pretty scary; but sometimes, I can weirdly just relax into them and appreciate their positive qualities and they can be quite fun. Sometimes I have a lot more energy (I can get positive mood swings when I find some relief from my symptoms or my adrenaline can charge into positive, hyped up feelings when socializing - which is cool, as I've been a chilled out introvert for most of my life and it's fun to feel fueled up and much less inhibited).

I think that this experience makes me a deeper person; it really helps me to be much more compassionate. I am already a highly compassionate person but my experience of PTSD really blows it out of the water, when I feel sad for myself, I start crying my eyes out about everyone else who suffers; everyone who has had to suffer this horrible thing for years, I cry my eyes out and beg that no one else should ever have to feel this way. I think about people with all kinds of worries and pains and I sincerely wish to help them. I think about people with other kinds of mental disorders, who always seemed so separate from me and maybe sometimes intimidating or hard to understand; now I can see our shared humanity to a far greater extent - they are just like me and everyone else, and we all just exist on a spectrum. I feel like my depth of perception, understanding, and compassion could not be fostered in normal circumstances - no way!

I also think that it helps me to be more true to myself; I think about what I really care about and my small worries, which I had before PTSD, don't matter anymore; who am I? What do I want from life? And I think about how I WILL get it when I get better. I WILL get better. I am sure of it. And I think that I am going to find skills and techniques to help me feel better and I will be able to apply them to my life, for everything that ever bothered me, and I will be able to make a difference - I think that if I never had PTSD, then I wouldn't be able to be 'better' than I ever was before or could have hoped to be, if I had just been normal.

When I have rough times, I think about how this experience makes me a better human being - but I don't think I could do that, if I didn't have hope that I'd get better and find my way out. I feel determined to do that for myself and for other people; so I can go out and help people who have suffered like I have. That to me is the point of life, it's the point of everything and PTSD makes it possible. If I don't suffer - how can I know about the suffering of other people and our shared human experience of suffering? If I don't suffer real pain, then how can I find my way out and how can I help others find a way out? To be kind, to help relieve others suffering - that is everything to me and if PTSD helps me to be a better person and to help others, then as unbearably terrible as it is sometimes - I am thankful for it too.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

How do you make friends here

it took time, just like offline does. There are a lot of good people here, although with some I clicked pretty instantly.

 

[EveHarrington]

it took time, just like offline does. There are a lot of good people here, although with some I clicked pre...

I'm rusty! Lol. Too much isolating. :-/

 

[Deleted member 29920]

I isolate terribly in real life, that's why this forum is such a blessing, I think you'll find plenty of friends here, I see no reason why not :hug: