Something I Have Noticed

[cherryblossom]

I think we all just have a similar understanding to what we are all going through. Whether we are carers or sufferers, we all have an insight into PTSD, which is why this community works. I don't really believe that we are particulary 'gifted', just understand where we are all coming from. With any sort of 'mental illness' (or physical illness actually), it's hard to understand unless you've been there (done that, got the T-shirt!)

 

[louisa]

yes - know what u mean - have also noticed how articulate and intelligent everyone is x

 

[reallydown]

I'm a little late to this thread but thanks for posting it, Jen! I have often wondered the same thing...that is, if those who are "gifted" are somehow more likely to get ptsd after a trauma precisely because often they are more sensitive...That's not to say those people are the only ones to develop ptsd...only, that perhaps (and obviously this remains to be seen/studied) a higer percentage of us with ptsd are indeed thsoe who are considered "gifted"... I've been asked by a prof who knwos I have it about this (not that I consider myself gifted)...I have a friend who..well, I'm convinced she's gifted and she is very sensitive and she has ptsd...I know another person who's extremely intelligent and also has ptsd...etc. and yes, a lot of people here on the forum seem to be in the same boat...Anyway, this is something I've been wondering about...I don't know if my post makes any sense... *bows out*

 

[shadowchaser]

Most of the people I know who have PTSD are gifted on one way or another. Most of them also had their trauma happen as children. Maybe an answer to this is because of the ptsd they learned to focus on other things in their life rather than focus on their life it self. I know I focused on my art. I was always drawing and creating. It was my way of dealing with it.

 

[reallydown]

Most of the people I know who have PTSD are gifted on one way or another. Most of them also had their trauma happen as children. Maybe an answer to this is because of the ptsd they learned to focus on other things in their life rather than focus on their life it self. I know I focused on my art. I was always drawing and creating. It was my way of dealing with it.

Could be...sometimes gifted people underachieve...I wodner if at times the ptsd comes in handy to thos eppl in a sense...not necessarily to be used as an excuse...but just a way to "justify" imperfection...I don't know if that made any sense...Then again...that might only serve to exacerbate feelings of worthlessness....

 

[just me here]

Just like any other affliction, there are those that deny it and suffer into oblivion, and those that seek help and to get better. Maybe that is the line we have all crossed, we are actively trying to get help and seek out those that might be able to help us, in turn trying to help others on here.

Maybe not smarter, or more gifted, but definitely willing to admit a problem and accept another persons value in spite of their problems. That puts us in a higher category in itself, I think.

 

[heidi]

I've noticed a few human beings I'm a little taken aback by. I'm very awestruck that they carry on the way they do.

 

[Sterre]

I think there is a clear correlation between developping PTSD and some kind of sensitivity.
When I look at my family, only two of my four siblings developped a mental illness. One ( myself) deveopped CPTSD and my other sister suffers an other mental illness.
My two other sisters, altough they have there emotional problems, did not developpe a mental illness. We where all raised in the same family , with the same disturbing things that where going on.

My biological sister and I have a father who suffers from schizophrenia, my two other sisters come from another father who, althoug he was very violent and abusive, doesnt suffer from an diagnosed mental illness

I think I can safely assume that my biological sister and me both are genetic predesponed to be more sensitive towards developping an mental illness.

My biological father was/is a very well know and respected published poet in the country I live in. When I read his poetry ( before he became ill) I always notice how emotionally sensitive he was for his surroundings , because of that ,he could write poetry about common things other people didnt even notice. In his poems I read a very sensitive man who picks up on emotions and patterns other people did not see.
He was "gifted"or "cursed"with a sensitivety that made him the poet he was/is.

When I look at the differences between myself and my biological sister, and my two other ( half) sisters, I notive that me and my biosister have the same general sensitivety , and my two halfsisters dont.

I'm not sure thoug if I would label it as beeing "gifted"or special, its just different, and rather disabeling.

Besides that, I agree with Mina. It is also the strict rules of this forum and the consequent moderation that makes this forum the ( intelligent) place it is.
There is a Dutch forum about Complex trauma, wich I do not participate in because of the way people think and write about their PTSD. The way they write and appraoch there problems is not my style. I dont think everyone who suffers from PTSD is highly intelligent or gifted or especially sensitive in a good way.

I dont think I am specially gifted or highly intelligent or special for that matter, this forum just appeals to me, because I can relate to the way people on this forum write about there problems.