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Poll Sufferer or Survivor?

What Do You Call Yourself?

  • I call myself a sufferer.

    Votes: 19 19.8%
  • I call myself a survivor.

    Votes: 32 33.3%
  • I use both terms interchangeably.

    Votes: 16 16.7%
  • I use other terms or no terms at all.

    Votes: 29 30.2%

  • Total voters
    96
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I Use both not interchangeably but I am both I am a survivor of the trauma that cased the PTSD that I suffer from.
 
When Survivor was new I loved the word and many times use it now.
But I have now with age and my path, like the word in 'healing'
I am alot more patient with myself now. Now it is a moment in time, and it
should pass.
Time, healing and these things should get better.

I find the battle is not so hard when I allow the healing to happen.
if it means stop the outside merry-go-round for alittle while or as little as possible
Refocus it gets better.
 
Hmmm, up until now I didn't think there was much of a difference between sufferer/survivour. I consider myself healing therefore there is a part of me that is suffering but growing and healing, I consider myself a 'survivour' but I don't like to think of myself in terms of the abuses that happened to me. Unfortunately I am more concerned about everyone elses pain and why wasn't I there to do something than I am about my own, I carry too much of the world on my shoulders. (Still working on that, think I'm doing pretty good) but yeah. I don't know I guess I'm neither, I'm a...healing human being whose got a lot to learn, a ways to grow and.... (lost my grain* of thought :)~).
 
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