Taking A Person With Ptsd Seriously

[p-no]

How do you name something you wish didn't exist yet don''t want to denounce? It's tricky,

You know what? I think that every single time you would have to write/say this whole sentence. Yeah, a lot of words and repeating them over and over, what for? To get the image right! :)

As far as I know, the Inuit have 36 (!) terms for "snow" depending on the quality of the snow (watery, icy, etc.). If you didn't know the right one, you'd have to describe it every time so they can be sure what you're really referring to. A bit hindering as is time- and effort-consuming, but you'd have excellent, professional conversations with another culture about something that is majorly important for them. :D

'our little helpers' (I just came up with that :smug: ;) , 'our little helpers' I think it's better than carer and I get to imagine my friends dressed like the seven dwarfs! :x3: :D )

ROFL :D "Our little helpers" in German can be kitchen machines, so now I have images of mixers, kneaders and stuff in my head for my friends and therapist. :D

 

[p-no]

Thanks for all the replies in this thread. I appreciate them! :)

 

[p-no]

But maybe 'our' responses as people with ptsd make other people upset/ sad?

Other people's (PTSD or not) responses make us (PTSD or not) upset/sad/other as well. That's part of life and being human. :hug:

 

[Springer80]

ROFL :D "Our little helpers" in German can be kitchen machines, so now I have images of mixers, kneaders and stuff in my head for my friends and therapist. :D

All the kitchen appliances I can think of, cook you, slice you, beat you, pummel or knead you. If any of you little helpers remind you of these I'd go to them for harsh fitness advice but not the mushy stuff!!!:D

 

[p-no]

Noted Springer80. LOL :D

 

[Springer80]

I certainly don't blame 'carers' for feeling frustrated or angry, but I have to wonder if that's how everyone feels around a person with ptsd? :(

Junebug, When anyone with PTSD behaves 'strangely' its their illness not them as a person. So if people criticise you it's your behaviour not your personality they refer to. I'm not saying it gives them any right to judge you but the nature of ptsd means that personality and behaviour are taken as the same. I used to believe this about myself and reproached myself terribly for it, afterall if you have had it since being a child how would you not think that?

I liken it to having had a poltergeist in my body that threw me around internally and people couldn't see and I didn't know how to control it.

 

[Springer80]

I think I might start a thread for the amusing yet ultimately prosperous and productive purpose of solving the riddle...

How do you name something you wish didn't exist yet don''t want to denounce? It's tricky, Alternate names for 'victim or sufferer'.

So previewing here for one post only....

Adrenaline stabilised stress shunner (or ASSS)

It would have the added benefit of enabling the possible sentences....

Hey where's my lovely ASSS?
or
Now your just being annoying you ASSS....

 

[p-no]

What about Early Childhood Shit Now Over aka ECSNO. Could be confused with an international organisation, which could come in handy at times.

 

[p-no]

Sorry, Springer, I misunderstood that. I thought you were referring to what happened rather than the person. What does shunner mean? Sorry, nothing in the online dictionary...

 

[Springer80]

What does shunner mean?

To shun means to push away, reject....etc. 'Shunner' is probably a bit slang.

 

[Tinyflame]

Dear p-no, thank you for your kind words, in coming back I had missed a whole page! (((((Big Hugs)))) to you! :inlove:

I came back because of what I had read- you said (paraphrasing) that "personality and behaviour are not the same and that you reproached yourself terribly for it". And how else (or why else) would we think differently about it, if that perspective or thought (or that was our understanding and belief) started as a child. And that others may view the behaviour as = personality.

Well all I can say is 'wow' and thank you. I can't quite put the thoughts entirely together, but that is so correct! I never even thought of that, because as you said, why would we think differently? And it does involve self-reproach, I feel awful about it. That helped me so much today, because I think (even though I may not deserve it), I was able to not beat myself up about it, as much. I mean, at some level there is the same shame etc, but also admittance (to myself) that it IS also the ptsd. I guess I am between the 2 extremes of 1) I can stop all ptsd symptoms and 2) the reality that I cannot (and therefore am an awful burden).

Let alone all you said about having ptsd-wow.

I think you are right about 'grey'- I had heard something at Christmas once about that, but cannot remember what the words were. :(

You are so sweet and kind, thank you, (((((p-no))))).

PS- "ASSS"- that's too funny Springer. And can't scroll back, but all I can think of is "UNESCO" or "UNICEF" p-no, :roflmao:. Though I have to say, thanks to kitchen gadgets one can make cake, :laugh:. Let alone Bar-b-q's.. :)

((((Hugs)))) to all, :) .

 

[Tinyflame]

Hey- it did come to me strangely enough today- Helen Keller actually became a great communicator, or at least someone found a way to bridge that gap that no one had thought of before. And she had a period (first few years, like pre-ptsd), where she could see and hear.