What I Hate The Most About Ptsd

[DHC]

Hate being treated like I'm stupid when I'm in a crowded room and overwhelmed. "normal" people suck sometimes.

 

[thinlizzy4010]

UGH!!! Grinding my teeth, never feeling like i have enought sleep even if I sleep like a rock and my psoriasis!

My Bruxism sux too. Even if I feel ok, my aching jaw muscles remind me I havent slept soundly. I clench, hard, rather than grind, and lately I have swapped clenching for sucking and I wake with big ridges inside my mouth from the vaccuum. I had a mouth guard for a year, this did help when I was grinding, but I needed sleeping tabs otherwise something foreign in my mouth stopped me from getting to sleep(before my current meds) I have heard botox may help. But if I could afford botox I wouldn't be putting it in my jaw! lol.

 

[CherylLyn]

Ha I didnt even know it had a name. Bruxism..... So I guess what I hate most is all the other health problems that come with it! Just picked up a mouth gard... and you said sleeping tabs, I cant take meds so thats and no go. And if I could afford botox it would go strait to my forhead from the stress lines at the age of 23!!! lol

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[thinlizzy4010]

It took me a few visits to different doctors 6 years ago to find the name for it. I think I have actually given myself nerve damage down oneside of my face from clenching. I get hubby to rub my face lots, I would like to try indian head massage but again this is another cost I can't afford right now.

The docotrs said I could try exercising the jaw. You put a pencil between your teeth and roll it back and forth in sets of ten. When the muscles are really sore already sometimes this is easier said than done. I regularly click my jaw now too, like people click their knuckles, I hope I am not causing more damage.

You have made my day today, thank you. I have actually helped somebody on here, and that feels great.

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[CraftyCath]

You know, You are all 'in my head' right now. I hate it all, everything you have all said. The isolation, the agoraphobia, the burxism, doctors who make you relive your traumas 'cos they don't believe you, going through the motions, not knowing reality from the PTSD...all of it!

At the moment the thing that I really hate is people just 'not getting it' I understand that they might never 'get it,' but it frustrates the hell out of me and makes me even more isolated. Broken_one said if there was a rehab for PTSD she would go; so would I. I hate the constant fear and not knowing what I am afraid of, the anger and a world that doesn't care. :cry:

(Triggered? You bet ya!)

 

[bluemoon]

- Nightmares
- Lack of sleep
- Having to deal with the real world
- Self hatred
- Constant fear/vigilance
- Medication
- etc.

 

[bluemoon]

Bruxism sucks too!:D

 

[jo may]

I hate most the meltdowns, how it is burdensome on others and comlicates my life. I hate the intrusive thoughts, SI, and inability to not be reminded of it, at some level almost-always. I hate the mistrust, second guessing, over-feeling, over-experiencing, past re-living, unexpectedness of triggers and being knocked flat, feeling like I'm in a prison, the lack of safety, the exhaustion and the painfulness. I hate every aspect of it, actually. So I guess I hate (most) how I feel, or how it affects how I feel. And how it affects my life and also therefore others around me.

You could be specking for me, I swaer I trust no one and I over think everything.

 

[jo may]

I hate the way I never trust people even people who are meant to be my nearest and dearest.

I hate sleeping as I know it'll lead to me having a dream about him and I hate that.

I hate the fact I feel it's hindering my life with my kids, I can't do normal Mum things like just hang out etc it might be to crowded, to loud etc.

I relax most when I'm by the seaside it's the water it calms me but I haven't been for ages yet my body aches for it.
Sometimes I get to the beach and I will just walk into the sea with my clothes on and I know I get some funny looks but at that moment I really don't care. It's the only time I feel free and I tend to completely zone out I almost feel content.

 

[bluemoon]

- Having a 'mental illness'.
- Feeling like you're going crazy.

 

[jo may]

:cry:Having people judge you when they find out you have a mental health illness.

I also feel like I can't sleep but I want to so much as I'm knackered.

I also hate the sickness and headache I get with my PTSD and it always gets worse the more tired I am.:cry:

 

[CraftyCath]

relax most when I'm by the seaside it's the water it calms me but I haven't been for ages yet my body aches for it.
Sometimes I get to the beach and I will just walk into the sea with my clothes on and I know I get some funny looks but at that moment I really don't care. It's the only time I feel free and I tend to completely zone out I almost feel content.

Wow Jo May, this is so me!! I love the seaside so much, the sound of the waves on the sure and the gulls crying. Me and Hubby want to move to the sea in the next 10 years or so, when the kids have fully fledged!