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02-03-2007, 03:18 PM
| | Moderated Member | | Join Date: Mar 2007
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| |  Hyper - Alertness and Anger Consume Me
Hi.
I am 35 years old and have experienced PTSD symptoms since around age 12. The symptom that causes me the most grief is my anger/rage caused by my constant, unconscious vigilant awareness of my surroundings.
The natural ability that normal people have to discern if a thing is threatening vs non-threatening seems to be under developed in myself.
Anyhow, thanks for the board. |
02-03-2007, 08:38 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Maryland, US
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Well, I can definately relate to that. This is a great place to start learning about why you feel the way you do and to do some hard but satisfying and important work. You can heal.
Welcome to the journey! I look forward to learning more about you! |
03-03-2007, 04:00 AM
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LOL yup, can relate
snugs togh
welcome hon
cass |
03-03-2007, 04:27 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Oranjestad, Aruba
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OMG yes I can relate to being hyper alert and angry!! Those are my main problems as well. You are in good company here, welcome to the forum. |
05-03-2007, 02:50 PM
|  | Administrative Editor PTSD | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Hi Mega, welcome to the forum. Anger is one part of the issue, absolutely; and usually the most prevalent within PTSD as it is readily accessible and we are familiar with using anger to push others away from us. |
05-03-2007, 02:52 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: charles town, wv (usa)
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hey, mega, welcome to the forum. |
09-03-2007, 01:33 AM
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thanks everyone for the welcome. i look forward to reading the user posts. |
18-03-2007, 09:00 PM
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| | can relate to that
hay mega
same problem here uncontrollable anger
for some reason since a few days I have a little more control probably due to various reasons. One of the things I did here is read the anger management articles. Pictures and video and explanations made me count to 5 :-)
1,2,3,4,5,1,2,3,4,5 like a madman all the time
it works a little bit in that I can stop an anger attack and change it in a babbling idiot counting to 5 :-)
hang in there |
22-03-2007, 01:16 PM
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