What I Hate The Most About Ptsd

[jo may]

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!

Yeah I have told my Hubby that when the kids have left school we are moving to be by the sea. :tup:

 

[Deleted member 10686]

What I hate the most about ptsd at the moment would be....
Struggling to get through each day, night time symbolizing I have survived another day but then having to make it through the nightmares, and then waking up and doing it all over again.

 

[Gamereign555]

The anticipation of anything, engagements, appointments, get-togethers, trips, it all ramps up my anxiety to panic proportions and is what I hate the most about ptsd.

 

[Lucycat]

Uncertainty.

 

[NutritionNerd]

Out of the clear blue sky panic attacks.
Not being able to cope with life - I can see what needs to be done but often can't bring myself to do it - feeling like I'm gonna get clobbered by life while I sit and watch.

 

[jo may]

What I hate the most about ptsd at the moment would be....
Struggling to get through each day, night time symbolizing I have survived another day but then having to make it through the nightmares, and then waking up and doing it all over again.

Yeah that's me I have really bad nightmares it's like it's real and it's happening again.
I hate night times but than I hate days to sometime especially when I'm having a day like today.

 

[jo may]

Today I hate being a suffer of PTSD full stop!!
Today I have felt like crying all day but haven't.
I've zoned out of this world and gone into my own and that's not a happy place eitheer today.
I am so cross with myself as I feel I am losing my kids and I know I shut my husband out but I just didn't want to get up. They say they love me and they know I love them but I feel like I'm making it harder and harder for them to love me. I have just had enough of it all today, hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

 

[NutritionNerd]

Sometimes it can be a good thing to go ahead and cry. My psychologist recommends this - he says do it in a mindful way which is let the tears flow without a lot of mental activity. Just be sad and let the sadness flow out of you. Let your family know that this is what you are doing and that it is part of getting better so that they know it has nothing to do with them. Find a quiet alone place so you can cry without additional stress being added. Be kind to yourself.

If anyone questions this wisdom consider the fact that emotional crying is a way for the body to release excess cortisol and that you will if nothing else feel better for having less of that circulating.

 

[Deleted member 10686]

Another thing I hate most about PTSD...
when you get into arguments or fights with friends and they then use some of our PTSD issues, such as defensiveness, avoidance, etc in order to make it appear that the whole issue was your fault. It seems like no matter how calm and courteous I am with some people, they would rather point their finger at ptsd and my problems than to ever admit they are capable of being wrong.

 

[intothelight]

Feeling really good and functioning well and then stumbling over something that sets off a PTSD avalanche! :mad:

 

[Gamereign555]

Wow forward, that would drive me nuts as well. Fortunately nobody I know even knows about ptsd and are pretty uneducated. I tend not to get into arguements with people but my life isn't considered complicated right now.
Keeping your cool as much as you can will soon make it obvious that its their problem. Try not to give into their 'digs'. I know that the ptsd gives us a disadvantage, but they don't have to know it.

They want to focus on your ptsd, turn it around and ask them about their health problems.

They say your avoiding, tell them they are focusing on your problems and avoiding their own.

Tell them they are wrong, tell them your therapist says you are doing well.

Tell them they really take the cake, being even more messed up than you are.

Tell them you are actually facing your issues, but they just do more and more of the same.

After you feel that you have made your point and done it with confidence, tell them that you are not interested in talking anymore.

 

[cat]

Hypervigilance, its so exhausting, as hard as I try it just won't go away!
Sleep disturbance & Medication tiredness, reducing dose soon & hoping it will make a difference