What Areas Do You Feel Capable/competent/functional In?

[Ronin]

Point well taken, @The Albatross, though please note the 'capable of', I'm talking possibilities, not certainty or reality / that PTSD does it.

 

[Suzetig]

What a fab idea for a thread. While I posted in the "faking functional" thread, for the most part I function very well. As a trainee therapist, my experiences and resultant PTSD give me an insight and empathy that I wouldn't have had otherwise and that serves me well in my work with clients. Good supervision helps me keep on top of the symptoms that might impact on my work. I'm very good at my paid work too, have really nice relationships with others and manage my house well. I have blips from time to time and really struggle with expressing what I need from people but on the most part I'm doing pretty well. It's good to remember that while I'm working through the sore bits.

 

[Friday]

I got thinking though since PTSD is perfectly capable of hijacking all these things?

@ Cashew... is PTSD really perfectly capable of hijacking all these things? ALL? Uh nope. Disagree. Black and white thinking and smacks to me of a cognitive distortion. Not all. Surely not all.

I'd have to say, yes. Capable of hijacking all. I've gone feral before, Alba. Not just a little wild, which is pretty par for course for me, and leaves a lot of room for life & living, but completely gone. Lost my ever lovin mind. And not just for a brief explosive period, but for some serious time. Sigh. Also, parallel / flip side, I'm pretty lucky that the most I generally lose a day is 10-15 hours to panic attacks and flashbacks and nonsense. Again, that leaves a lot of room for living. But I've also lost months and months to being completely nonfunctional, and years to being barely functional.

These two things? ^^^ Are what I fight going back to. I can feel it, sometimes... Fingers in every damn pie... And I have to fight like blazes not to let it. To take control back. To be able to listen to my instincts without being a slave to them.

Just because it's capable, IME, doesn't mean it usually does it. Most of the time there's pretty clearly defined PTSD-stuff vs Life-stuff, even though they may interact or one may owe a nod and a wink to the other.

But, yes. While most of the time my life has PTSD in it, there have been times where what I have come to know as PTSD has became my life.

 

[Ronin]

I'd have to say, yes. Capable of hijacking all. I've gone feral before, Alba.

This. Something I'm not ready to go into as I'm very busy balancing with my sanity and staying on that edge instead of crossing over, but yes. Thank you.

 

[Friday]

<grin> I'm really glad I got to write the above, first! Because my initial, what am I competant at? Nothing. Not right now. Maybe shooting. I can generally hit what I'm aiming at. Knives to lesser degree. But that's not true. :D Well, the weapons handling is true. But I can also feed myself, clean myself, dress myself, talk sometimes, drive, barter for wanted things, walk, read, write, a whole lotta stuff! Granted, not all the time & not to the degree I'd like to be able to, but hey. Little piece here, little piece there, right? Keep adding up all the little things, elbow out some more space, and pretty soon we're talking real living, again.

 

[Ronin]

Well, the weapons handling is true.

Sistah I had it pointed out to me I understand my weapons' spirit even in times my body does whatever the f*ck it's even doing (driving me nuts is what) at the moment, and so many very skilled & able at the moment & still able people won't attain that clarity within a life time, nothing they do with handling can compare.

Sounds like a ball that really needs to roll into your courtyard, too, and stay at eyes' height. ;)

 

[Heather]

I'm capable of: being a great mom to my daughter
Keeping the house clean.
Finding a plan D. When a,b and c don't work.
Getting back-up when I've been knocked down.
Reaching out for help....and boy do these days: I NEED HELP.

 

[Ronin]

I'm capable at forming objections :D

(At any kind of emotional/cognitive/let's-go-or-not-bonkers crossroad, it's something I'm very proud of, in the place of mind abuse can't touch.)

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am very good at dealing with beauracratic hassles and solving them eventually.
I have a wonderful mind that is capable of so much.
I never give up unless the thing I am doing is beyond what I am capable of handling.
I am very good at silencing my inner critic and coming back with good common sense responses.
I love to learn and to grow and change into a more positive person.
I have a sense of humor slowly coming back to life.

 

[ladee]

I have a sense of humor. Am very capable of laughing at myself. My humor can be very dark sometimes, so I hesitate to use it here... it works for me, but good possibility, not for others....
I have established a discerning spirit. when I should say something, when I should remain quite.
I still don't know if I am a good mom or not.. still working on this one.

 

[Ronin]

so I hesitate to use it here.

Please don't hesitate, I for one loove 'dark' humor & humor as a whole? Rare & treasured, so don't hold back. :sneaky::tup:

 

[ladee]

@Cashew, ok, I will step out tentatively. and if I don't get banned, then off we go !!! If I get in trouble, I will puff out my chest, raise my head and say.... like a 5 yr old... 'Cashew said I could !!!':happy: