Research Participants Needed: The Importance Of Social Context In Ptsd

[mayab]

Hi everyone,

I am a Psychology undergraduate at the University of Sussex, UK. My colleagues and I are currently conducting research investigating the importance of social context in PTSD. I am posting to see if anyone is able to assist us with this research by completing an online survey.

The survey looks at how we respond to very stressful or traumatic events and the importance of those around us during these times.

To participate in this research you must have experienced or witnessed a very stressful or traumatic event in the last 2 years, be over the age of 18 and be fluent in English.

The survey should only take you around 30 minutes to complete. Any information you provide will be kept both anonymous and confidential and you have the right to withdraw your data at any point if you wish to do so.

You will have the option of being entered into a prize draw for 4 chances to win £25 if you complete the survey. You will need to provide your email address if you would like to be entered into the prize draw.

If you are able to help us and qualify to participate then please follow the link below. Thankyou!

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[Noa]

I'm willing to answer the survey, but the traumatic experience I went though was about 10 years ago.

 

[Loner]

Yea i would answer too but it was a whole childhood of shit over a decade ago.

 

[cat]

I'd be happy to complete but trauma 5yrs ago.

 

[Girl3]

I just started getting better 2 years ago - Mayab. If you guys change it to anything between 5 and 40 years ago I'll fill out a survery.

Many who are only 2 years into their PTSD may not even know their diagnosis, let alone be willing to talk about it.

 

[PTSD sufferer]

I was diagnosed 3.5 years ago and my trauma is older than that. Trauma can exist for a long time and only when the 'straw breaks the camels back' do you do through the gambit of diagnosis before finding the right one. The NHS can take a full year to see a Psych let alone get a diagnosis. Limiting to a traumatic incident in the past 2 years, you will mainly be dealing with PTS or combat PTSD? That is, car accidents, injury and combat PTSD. Other types of trauma can carry emotional symptoms and co-morbidities that make it hard to seek a diagnosis, let alone get the right one. And, a correct diagnosis can take years.

I have it on good authority that the DSM has received evidence and case files of PTDD (prolonged traumatic distress disorder) that aims to modify the DSM criteria for PTSD to include life long trauma and stress that results in PTSD. The larger majority of members on this forum have life long trauma, or multiple traumas during their lifetime.

Part of the symptoms are isolation, hyper vigilance, anxiety and depression thus our symptoms mean we tend to avoid socialising. It stands to reason, based on symptomatology, that we are not social creatures. However, I think most would agree with me when I say, that knowing you are not alone in a safe environment where you can easily walk away (like this forum) is why most of us become members. The real world is another story, as people are not so kind out there.

Good luck.

 

[Girl3]

Or when you dissociate - Girl2 is social as all hell and does things that I couldn't imagine doing, and many times do not recall. Girl1 doesn't leave home. Girl3 works and can do any justafiable errand or job - but not socialize.

 

[DharmaGirl]

Yep, childhood trauma here.