I hope yall can read my chicken scratch from 2019. This is the first page of my #diary at that time. If anyone would like to read more, let me know in the comments below
#Depression #Anxiety #BipolarDisorder #BorderlinePersonalityDisorder #PTSD #Journal #PersonalGrowth #whatdoyouthink
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Hi there! I'd like to start a friendly discussion because I'm curious if others feel the same way as me. I'm a teen who has been clinically diagnosed with PTSD a few years back. For a long time I was unaware of the physiological reason for my struggles, but was still in a lot of valid pain. When I found out it was because I had developed PTSD, I began to feel annoyed when people would use the term "PTSD" so casually in jokes or to comment on someone's response to something. They use the term so carelessly for something that causes so much pain!
Here's an example scenario: Rodney suggests that he and his friends go to the pool. They go, and Rodney starts a water war and absolutely annihilates them all. The whole time he's dumping buckets of water on them and throwing water balloons; his friends can't go two steps without being blasted with a super-soaker or otherwise terrorized by Rodney. It's all in good fun and they're all having a good time, but it's clear Rodney wins the water war. The next week, Rodney suggests again: "Hey let's go to the pool!" All his friends collectively scream "NO!!" and they all start laughing. "What, y'all got PTSD from Rodney?" laughs another friend. And they'd continue laughing. But for me there's a beat of silence in my mind when someone says this.
Why is a medical term that someone in the room may be diagnosed with, being used in an ... inappropriate? way? by so many people who are not diagnosed nor educated on the topic, and do not understand the weight and hardship that comes with this disorder?
How do you feel? What do you think? I don't know how I feel, so I am open to both sides of the conversation. No hate here! I'd just like to hear from fellow PTSD mighties, or people who are close with someone diagnosed with PTSD who may feel some type of way about this. The floor is yours... #PTSD #PostTraumaticStressDisorder #misusedterm #whatdoyouthink #HowDoYouFeel #ComplexPTSD #comorbidptsd
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So I work as a security guard for a big corporation that sends people coupons. It’s nice and quiet. Since I work the weekends I don’t have to deal with a lot of people needing assistance. With my military PTSD, anxiety, depression and newly diagnosed: bipolar disorder, not dealing with a lot of people is nice. However, the major unfortunate problem is that because of all of my.... issues, I only have my wife, and my best friend and his wife that I consider friends it they have their own lives and I can’t constantly depend on them to talk to me every time I’m alone. Everyone else, like my wife’s friends and all that, I talk to them because it’s socially required. I put in a smile and talk about things that they are interested in. However, none of them know the real me. So as I sit here at work. I’ve come to question, is it my issues that make me not have friends or is it my just using my issues to keep me from going out and trying to make friends? #PTSD #Anxiety #Depression #BipolarDisorder #Friends
I think the thing he didn't want to share was that he was dying from cancer. Since he wanted to die anyway, he figured the cancer would do it for him, so he wouldn't have to commit suicide. All his problems wrapped up in a nice little package. What he was afraid of was, if he told his family, they would try to help save him, help him live longer. Which he didn't want.
What he was looking from Dear Abby was more like permission to die. At least, that what it seemed like to me. #whatdoyouthink
I'm torn on this one.
Based on my experiences as well as that of the many survivors I know, PTSD seems to be chronic, with healing being a daily choice coupled with skills for management of the many symptoms. My understanding is that "flare-ups" can happen throughout life if the trauma is complex enough or if the survivor was young during the events.
I realize the medical field claims it can be healed, but I feel like some of my wounds will never heal.
Curious to others thoughts on this healing from this mental illness.
#Recovery y #treatment #Healing #CPTSD #MentalHealthAwareness#questions
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