Would Living In Community Of People With Ptsd Help?

[Deleted member 37085]

@ruffdeal, You asked what our thoughts were...if after I posted had you come back and l...

Yes, a place where I would not feel like such a freak of nature; a community of no bullies, and whacko stuff occurring. I am being serious @ruffdeal; I live there in this place - up inside of my head a lot; I call it my safe place (when I'm at home on the couch) and I at times dissociate there using a really good movie (DVD) and/or cable; good music; I go to my safe place a lot (sometimes works, sometimes not @ruffdeal. Thanks for posting about this wonderful place with no bullies and understanding about ptsd, etc.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

and I at times dissociate there using a really good movie (DVD) and/or cable;

Maladaptive daydreaming I recently learned thats called. I do it all the time and I have my own world as well where i went back then and so go today but for DBT ive had to try to create a new safe place as this one is for escape and hidding and not to just feel safe.

Fantasies don't involve total reality though. I'm thinking more like - My next door neighbor wouldn't tell everyone I'm dangerous because I have PTSD and talk to me like I'm 5, lol.

Nope, they would just be totally paranoid about nothing, keep thinking they know what you think of them, explode on you over nothing (I'm just thinking about my symptoms), and trigger you like mad. And yeah, you both have PTSD so would understand but in reality PTSDers trigger the hell out of each other and I dont know, just knowing how intense the site gets, I'm thinking that would be my crazy neighbor. Most espcially if either or both have another disorder as there are more symptims that you dont have. Like I also have BPD that make others stay away from me so yeah. Im not thinking it would be good.

 

[Deleted member 37085]

Not sure if this was moved but its in Social, where we laugh and have fun. Just thought I'd...

Only in my wildest dreams, only there - is a Utopia where everyone can co-exist without slapping, beating, name-calling, sexual abusive predators, rapists, murderers, which I have experienced them all and more! I love to dream, I do live in the real world - and I do not refer to the real world as normal anymore. For I have yet and have been on a quest to find - a truly normal human being. All have character issue(s), defect(s), personal disorder(s) of one form or another. I stopped putting anyone on a pedestal a few months ago. No more. When I look at someone and do admire them, I also know that if I am around them long enough (as true for myself too) they will show me their abbynormal selves - for in my humblest of thoughts and feelings, I believe each and every person on this planet is not perfect, nor normal. All I believe are learning and growing in perfection and changing each day or life would be oh so boring, and everyone would be the same and progress and transformation would be obsolete.

 

[physicist13]

short term, hell yes
long term, hell no

although I don't think there should be any stigma around PTSD and mental illness in general, having it be so normalized to the point where everyone in your community/ circle has it would not be good. there would be less of a motivation to get better, because it wouldn't be so hard. everyone would not only have PTSD, but also be a supporter of many other people, so we would likely not be spending enough time on ourselves. also sometimes tough love, although unsympathetic, can be good when it comes to being "normal" and being forced to preform basic human functioning. also there might be days in the community where everyone was too depressed or anxious to really be productive, so there would be a slight societal collapse.

 

[asadafagahajakal]

Great idea, but cliques would be a must in that enviroment. For example i got no business conversing with combat vets since im a civilian, unless of course they welcomed me into the doscussion, and obviously i wouldnt fit in with people that survived natural disasters. A clique structure would have to be in place, not to segregate, but to get the most out of like minded people. So not necessarily "cliques", more like specialty circles, kinda like the different subjects in the forums.

Does anyone have experience running a social gathering where different tables had different topics, almost like a career fair?

In reality though a riot may just happen given a decent attendance.

 

[Freedomfighter]

a place where I could feel normal or helpful. a place where I can be helped by neighbors or at least un...

Nope, I don't believe so, because there are many PTSD sufferers that have crossed lines I will never cross. Many are violent, and once you get to know how many of them are abusive and it really has nothing to do at all with their PTSD diagnosis, they are simply dangerous loosers, then you have to steer away from them as much as you can.

Character is what you have to measure people on first. Just because someone has had a major disease like heart disease or cancer one would still need to make sure that the people in front of them are good people before really wanting to share their lives with them.