What do you avoid at all costs?

[EveHarrington]

Fireworks.

Loud public events.

Bad fitting clothes.

Bad feeling clothes.

 

[Changing4Best]

I would have to say of all the things I avoid at all costs, are situations I can't control o...

WOW! I am so sorry that happened to you at the shelter and in the elevator and having to go to the ER. I hope you were able to work it out in therapy?

 

[recoveringfromptsd]

@SpiritSong Unfortately, my mental health treatment until 2016 was nothing but a waste, so much so that there was one time where I was in the hospital and they tried to D/C to a shelter. Needless to say that did not go over well, and resulted in them sending me to a long term care facility where it was possible I could have ended up spending the remainder of my life. It was july 2016 that real mental health treatment began. So no these things were not addressed back then or even later. It is only now that they are, but I am just at the beginning of such care. And it may be too late given my age for it to make any real difference.

 

[frogthroat]

I avoid relationships of any kind and conflict. I'm to the point where I don't have much to do with the outside world besides when I'm forced to talk to people at work.
I avoid trying new things or large groups of people as well. I avoid my entire family. Basically, I avoid anything that has to do with people.

 

[Changing4Best]

@SpiritSong Unfortately, my mental health treatment until 2016 was nothin...

I'm in my mid-60s and just started Trauma Based CBT. It is helping. You are never too old!

 

[semc1986]

• Hospitals/doctors
• Disinfectants (esp. Simple Green)
• Any sort of mess that may attract pests (a bit counterintuitive with the above)
• Diesel engines (sound, smell)
• Young children

I didn't think of it because (thankfully) it doesn't come up often, but that lovely "did a cat pee on an electrical fire?" meth smell.

Once last year I had to get off a train and wait for the next one over that.

 

[CdnCopper]

People in general, public settings, fireworks at all costs, any cop stuff on TV.

 

[Angrylittlebird]

That dreaded question: Are you doing okay?
What are you supposed to say? No. I barely made it here and I’m giving it all I got to try and look/act normal, like nothing is wrong. So you had to ask and make me want to drive my anxiety ridden butt back home somehow and descend into a raw, angry, staring contest with the air. Thanks for asking.

 

[Dergrosse]

Fireworks and Cops

 

[MrMoonlight]

the news, thinking about my trauma and other events in my life. Seems like I avoid self compassion too.

 

[LuckiLee]

J avoids funerals and watching the news.

 

[mumstheword]

My ex, my mother, most humans, mainstream news, tv, my neighbors, virtue-signalling narcassists and political types (which my town is full of)