I feel guilty for things. Especially when I snap at my husband or blurt out something mean I was trying to hold back because I knew it was irrational and PTSD related.

I said "yes, often"...mostly when I snap at family members...Good poll Jim.

I answered yes, sometimes. Yes I do feel guiltly but at the same time, everyone knows my response to triggers, my reactions, and lack of interest is due to my PTSD. Yes, there are times when I cannot function , yes there are days and plans that get ruined, yes, at times I am an emotional mess. I decided that a lack of understanding and patience is detrimental to my success especially when I am not exhibiting destructive behaviors.

Yes, I slept all week and felt quite guilty about it, though nothing really suffered for it.

I have some guilt on and off now - I know that sometimes I let things fall through the cracks at work because I'm dissociated.

In terms of past behaviour, I can see why I acted the way I did and I've mostly forgiven myself for that because I'm making amends for it now. I think part of the moving on from guilt for me is being accountable for past actions. I find it easier to forgive behaviour from the past when it was before I knew what was going on. However, recent behaviour is a bit trickier because now I know what I'm dealing with so there's this feeling that I should be able to control my reactions more.

I definitely feel guilty because I am supposed to be super mom and lately such a mess.
The house is a wreck and I feel so anxious about it but then don't do much about it.

i voted seldom or never i didn't know i had ptsd drink alot and did stupid things but i thought it was everones eles fault not mind if they only would leave me alone. when i quit over seventeen years ago than the problems begin in va mental hospital in knoxville iowa. i got many false diagnoses that a black nurse told the doctor he has symptons of ptsd than i started getting prober treatment. i don't feel quilty has alcholism and ptsd is and illness. even thou it is and illness i take resposenbilty for the wrong that i have done.

I have an episode where I go numb and emotionless and I just don't feel anything toward people that I love. I went numb a couple of weeks ago and wanted to be alone because something really sparked my PTSD. My boyfriend was there and I just wanted to end it with him. I just didn't want him to see me like that but at the moment, most of all, I just did not want to depend on anyone else. I did not trust that he would be there for me or still love me. I came out of the episode and felt such intense guilt within a bit and cried to him. I felt like such a burden to him. I felt so guilty for hurting him for just being numb. It is like I can see myself doing the numb thing when I am in that moment and I see the effect it has on people but I can't stop it. I am getting better at controlling it but when I am in that place, I feel as though I could be alone forever and be fine with it. I am rambling but yes the guilt is with me every day. I am more to deal with than someone who does not have PTSD and I feel a burden and guilt over how I can behave.

In no way do I feel guilty. I also understand my siblings behavior and two of them have done some pretty rotten things. They just did as they learned to do from our father

In the past, particularly before a correct dx, I felt very guilty for my behavior. I thought it was simply because I was a slime-filled, undisciplined, anti-social, self-indulgent horror.

Luckily, I went through a 12-step process and made amends for the behaviors, and now that I know what's really wrong, I feel less guilt and don't ruminate over all the damage to others (although I still am working on the regret/loss of all the years/time/opportunities, etc).

I have to take responsibility for my behaviors, sure, and I feel sad that I respond the way I do at times, but...not guilty so much anymore.

I very much related to Inicho7's post....way back when, before I received this dx (so didn't know what was wrong and hadn't done any work on it directly), I used to get triggered and "disappear" for days and days, sometimes up to a week or more. My partner would say she could look in my eyes and just nobody was there. I was completely shut down, remote, removed. Nothing could reach or touch me, and I so strongly resonated with, "when I am in that place, I feel as though I could be alone forever and be fine with it". Strange as it may seem, that shut down, removed state certainly was a break for me, albeit an involuntary one, from the day-to-day struggle that I lived back then.

-Dylan