Ptsd different for m/w? thoughts?

[user44376]

This seems like an obvious question. Maybe someone can link me the archive of it. It's hard for me to believe it hasn't been asked.

My question is, do you feel PTSD has struck you differently according your gender (whatever that means to you; not the place for THAT argument)

EXAMPLE: If you're a guy how do you believe PTSD has hit you in ways a woman may not understand. Ladies, vice-versa. And how do you bridge that miscommunication if it's true?

 

[Friday]

Not really.

Just for myself / my own experience & observation, it seems to be far more trauma type + personality, than sex/gender related.

I believe very strongly in the differences between men & women vive la difference! but PTSD doesn't really seem to be amongst them.

Again, just my view. I could be wrong, often am.

 

[Fadeaway]

I read the other day about women's symptoms intensifying during pms and I would have to agree. Otherwise I think the only difference is the percentages in the type of trauma.

 

[Rani G2]

Every trauma creates a fragmentation of the self. One falls out of continuity, there is no coherency, trauma also leaves one a repetitive cycle which is an effort to overcome mostly in vain as we seem to stay in time and place.

Survival modes are universal.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I think there is not a difference between genders but a difference in the amount of traumas and what kinds of trauma that creates the disorder of PTSD. Just my opinion.

 

[Ronin]

I believe it has more to do with personality, trauma type, available supports & age (both the trauma happening, and the one current) in how things get parsed & processed than gender really.

Expressions varying by gender and body type and plenty other factors, but that's a different argument from the nature of the trauma and some 'universal', gender related changes following it.

 

[Deleted member 541]

Honestly, I don't think that either gender suffers differently from PTSD. What I do think is how each gender MAY deal with it differently, or talk about it differently. But we all pretty much suffer the same!!!! JMO!!!

 

[user44376]

Let me word this differently. I completely agree there are universal s/s of ptsd. How we became injured is in a sense a technicality. My initial question was dealing more in coping techniques, and how one sees that the world is now very different for onebself.

For example: how do women see the pain of ptsd in relation to being menopausal, if they are at the age. A man will never know this. As a woman can you share what something like that feels like? Or a hundred other topics.

For guys, how do yo explain to your wife what PTSD had done to your sense of masculinity? Your role? Again, a hundred other topics.

The way we deal with this shit is going to determine our personal lives until we die.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I had a full and complete hysterectomy many years ago and skipped menopause.

 

[Deleted member 541]

When I entered (peri) to menopause, I became a complete and total bitch, crazier than before, and PTSD on steroids. Every symptom of (peri) to menopause and PTSD magnified and I was a complete mess for yrs......

 

[Sideways]

Since you've asked!? Periods are a bitch of a trigger. And that's all I'm gonna say!!

 

[Ronin]

Someone here forgets things like gender variant people exist & stuff like periods and moustache really isn't limited to women / men respectively. ;) /obligatory disclaimers down