Comments on: PTSD Healing: Let Your Voice Be Heard http://howtohealptsd.today.com/2009/04/30/ptsd-healing-beginning-to-reach-out-2/ A Guide To Overcoming Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:29:24 +0000 http://www.today.com/version-2.3.1 By: Jane http://howtohealptsd.today.com/2009/04/30/ptsd-healing-beginning-to-reach-out-2/#comment-704 Jane Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:47:16 +0000 http://howtohealptsd.today.com/2009/04/30/ptsd-healing-beginning-to-reach-out-2/#comment-704 Will I ever get over this? Sometimes I feel better, hope sets in only to face a setback again. So afraid to tell someone about my PTSD. I told a friend of mine that I have PTSD, and I was totally shocked about how insensitive her responses have been. She doesn't understand, judges me and actually thinks that I could go off the deep end if I get angry. It is like I don't have the right to be angry anymore because if I get upset about anything, people that know about my PTSD think I will go and hurt someone. I couldn't hurt a fly and I am reinsured by people that don't understand and that abandon me once they learn I have PTSD. I am so hurt. I will not ever tell anyone again about my PTSD because every time I am brave enough to do it, these people will go out of their way to judge me and they actually believe that now I am a person to be afraid of. How dare they. Why do people believe that every time I get mad about something, I will crack? Don't they get mad? Of course they do. But automatically, when they learn that I have PTSD they treat me differently. Then they tell me that I will get over it. They don't understand, they judge, by implying that they fear my reactions to certain situations they make me more unsure and confused about myself. In short, these people hurt me more, these people throw me into PTSD more. No, I will not ever be stupid enough to share my PTSD with anyone again, only people that have PTSD can understand other people with PTSD. From now on I will only talk to people with the same disorder, because these are the people that will not judge, that will understand. I am sooo tired of so called friends that actually get mad at me and try to tell me how to live my life once I confide into them that I have this disorder. Do they know how much that hurts a person who is battling PTSD on an every day basis? Do they have any idea what it does to a person with PTSD if these people act fearful and unsure around a PTSD sufferer? Obviously not, they treat us like a person with a major mental illness and insult our intelligence. I don't want to be bothered anymore by these self serving people, who not only judge us and demean us but who at the same time have no problem to use us for whatever they need in their daily lifes. When we are upset they avoid us and wouldn't it be nice if they just talked to us? If they could just listen to our concerns without judging, without being afraid of us and our issues? But that would be in a perfect life. I am so glad for websites such as these were people with PTSD can share and help each other. I want to be a loner, because people just don't understand and they don't want to understand. I want to be by myself, left alone and I don't want people to look at me when I go shopping. I just don't want to anymore. Verloren Will I ever get over this? Sometimes I feel better, hope sets in only to face a setback again.

So afraid to tell someone about my PTSD. I told a friend of mine that I have PTSD, and I was totally shocked about how insensitive her responses have been. She doesn’t understand, judges me and actually thinks that I could go off the deep end if I get angry. It is like I don’t have the right to be angry anymore because if I get upset about anything, people that know about my PTSD think I will go and hurt someone. I couldn’t hurt a fly and I am reinsured by people that don’t understand and that abandon me once they learn I have PTSD. I am so hurt. I will not ever tell anyone again about my PTSD because every time I am brave enough to do it, these people will go out of their way to judge me and they actually believe that now I am a person to be afraid of. How dare they.

Why do people believe that every time I get mad about something, I will crack? Don’t they get mad? Of course they do. But automatically, when they learn that I have PTSD they treat me differently. Then they tell me that I will get over it. They don’t understand, they judge, by implying that they fear my reactions to certain situations they make me more unsure and confused about myself. In short, these people hurt me more, these people throw me into PTSD more. No, I will not ever be stupid enough to share my PTSD with anyone again, only people that have PTSD can understand other people with PTSD. From now on I will only talk to people with the same disorder, because these are the people that will not judge, that will understand.

I am sooo tired of so called friends that actually get mad at me and try to tell me how to live my life once I confide into them that I have this disorder. Do they know how much that hurts a person who is battling PTSD on an every day basis? Do they have any idea what it does to a person with PTSD if these people act fearful and unsure around a PTSD sufferer? Obviously not, they treat us like a person with a major mental illness and insult our intelligence.

I don’t want to be bothered anymore by these self serving people, who not only judge us and demean us but who at the same time have no problem to use us for whatever they need in their daily lifes. When we are upset they avoid us and wouldn’t it be nice if they just talked to us? If they could just listen to our concerns without judging, without being afraid of us and our issues? But that would be in a perfect life.

I am so glad for websites such as these were people with PTSD can share and help each other. I want to be a loner, because people just don’t understand and they don’t want to understand. I want to be by myself, left alone and I don’t want people to look at me when I go shopping. I just don’t want to anymore.

Verloren

]]> By: Lisa http://howtohealptsd.today.com/2009/04/30/ptsd-healing-beginning-to-reach-out-2/#comment-206 Lisa Sun, 24 May 2009 18:02:59 +0000 http://howtohealptsd.today.com/2009/04/30/ptsd-healing-beginning-to-reach-out-2/#comment-206 What is happening to me? How did I get to this place in my life where I don't want to be me anymore? I don't want to be looked at, talked about, thought of, etc..... I just don't want to be. I am sick and tired of being seen as the "funniest person" you've ever met. I know humor heals, it is just not healing me today. I am 41 years old and my sister told me recently on my birthday, that I should be happy I am not 45, because 45, well, 45 just isn't funny, not at all, not even a little bit, so I should just be happy I am not 45. WHAT??????? I thought I was the crazy one. The one on meds, that help me to get out of bed, but really don't make an impact on the "PTSD".... dx I have been given. Ok, that is just a reply, which makes not a lick of sense eh? Sorry to bother you with my nonsense. Sincerely and Hopelessly, Lisa What is happening to me? How did I get to this place in my life where I don’t want to be me anymore? I don’t want to be looked at, talked about, thought of, etc….. I just don’t want to be. I am sick and tired of being seen as the “funniest person” you’ve ever met. I know humor heals, it is just not healing me today. I am 41 years old and my sister told me recently on my birthday, that I should be happy I am not 45, because 45, well, 45 just isn’t funny, not at all, not even a little bit, so I should just be happy I am not 45. WHAT??????? I thought I was the crazy one. The one on meds, that help me to get out of bed, but really don’t make an impact on the “PTSD”…. dx I have been given. Ok, that is just a reply, which makes not a lick of sense eh? Sorry to bother you with my nonsense.

Sincerely and Hopelessly,

Lisa

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