Wanting to hide

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Does anyone else go through severe depression where it's so bad thst you want to hide away from the world?

A feeling of being completely disconnected from everyone and everything?

Is it common for people who have PTSD to self harm? I will scratch up my arm with a pair of tweezers when my thoughts become too distorted. It takes the internal pain away.
 
Does anyone else go through severe depression where it's so bad thst you want to hide away from the world?
Unfortunately, yes. Depression is very often best friends with PTSD, and sliding into a major depressive episode is very common.
Is it common for people who have PTSD to self harm?
Yes - self harm is common in people carrying high levels of distress, which includes people with ptsd.
It takes the internal pain away.
Does it? Or does it just distract you from it for a while?

Are there other methods you can try to cope with the distress? It’s very often not the case that we can get rid of the distress. The trick can be in learning how to manage it in ways that it no longer overwhelms us, until we have dealt with the distress fully.
 
Yes & No.

When I ACTUALLY drop off the face of the planet? Depression has zip zero nada zilch to do with it.

But when I AM depressed? I can stare at the same centimeter of wall for months without giving a f*ck.

IE Hiding takes effort I simply do not have when depressed, but very much have when my PTSD is running hot.
 
i fall into @Friday 's league of not having enough energy (nor care) to run and hide when i am depressed. my psychotic flights are energy/hypervigilance personified. that hysterical energy is intense enough to carry me to other continents.

however, once i find my hidey hole, the depression can get bleak. commence stare downs with unseen spaces. depression is where i am also most likely to self-harm. picking and scratching are my most common forms of self-harm. it does, indeed, help ease the psychic pain, but as @Sideways pointed out, the relief never endures. the physical pain of my self-harm is heals far, far faster than the psychic pain.
 

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