Do you or someone you are close to have PTSD?
I have PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder). It is a result of an abusive childhood. I have had symptoms for nearly 30 years.
It is an official diagnosis and I have been treated with meds and therapy for about 25 years.
I think what helped me most has been therapy and some of my meds. But even now I still have some severe symptoms
I’d love to hear stories from people who also have it or are close to someone who has it. Answer as little or as much as you’d like.
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I have had some experiences similar to ptsd. It happened very long ago, so it mostly passed by now.
Yes, someone in my close family has it, struggles daily with it.
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I have PTSD. I tried to save a co-workers life. That was in 2000. I’ve been on medication ever since. Tried getting off but end up in massive depression and tears.
I suspect I will be on medication for life, but I also have some other mental health issues, which complicates everything.
I sometimes wonder if, on a scale of 1 – 100, every one of us possibly lives with some level of PTSD.
Terrible childhoods with all kinds of abuse, plus two tours of military combat might create a lot of people in the high-70s. Wally and Beaver Cleaver are perhaps only a 2 or 3, based solely on regular adolescent torment from Eddie Haskell….....
(OK, Beaver might be 7, due to falling into that giant billboard-sign teacup)
Everyone’s penchant for developing PTSD is due to a whole lot of factors. Even if it is the exact same incident/s one person could end up with strong temporary anxiety, while another could get PTSD and be affected the rest of their lives.
My Aunt is from Vietnam. She grew up during the American Vietnam war. She was rescued and brought to the US.
She refuses to leave the US. She recently went on a cruise with my uncle, and refused to get off of the boat when the boat was in another country. She refuses to ride on planes now too, it must of been how she was rescued.
Different people suffer in different ways. I couldn’t go back to work where my co-worker died as I remember others standing around while I was giving CPR and some were laughing at I don’t know what. I tried for almost 90 minutes without success.
My late husband had PTSD. He was in the mix with some dangerous people that were once very good friends. An altercation arose when his friends brought and others not well known to rob him. They held him at gun point, proceeded to strangle him until he was assumed dead. The guys threw him into the trunk of a car and drive him hours away to a wooded area and leave him for dead under dirt and rocks and leaves. Knowing everyone has gone, my husband carefully got up and started the long trek home. I met him 5 years later and we were married for 4 years. He passed away at 37 leaving a 5 year old daughter behind. I feel like I wasn’t strong or pushy enough to help him. I tired to get him to unload his burden so I can share the weight. He cared so much he wouldn’t dare burden me with his pain. I would’ve done anything to give him comfort…to listen, help, talk, love, not talk, listen, care, empathise…or at the least sympathize.
I was diagnosed with PTSD. I fell apart badly at one point. There is only so much abuse you can take in your life and ignore before your mind will go, “tap, tap, TAP”. I got a lot of help for a lot of years and I am living a mostly symptom free life now. That wouldn’t have happened without my loving husband and kids and a lot of therapy.
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