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View Poll Results: How Many Traumas Have You Experienced? | |
A single incident
|     | 7 | 5.19% | |
A few incidents over a short period of time (as in war, natural disaster, etc)
|    | 13 | 9.63% | |
Many incidents throughout my lifetime
|    | 115 | 85.19% | 
26-05-2008, 04:32 PM
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I know the numbers are in the hundreds. |
27-05-2008, 06:34 AM
|  | | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Ohio, USA
Posts: 110
| |  didn't know the term, thank you Anthony
Quote:
Originally Posted by anthony  complex PTSD is a label given to those only who have endured generally a type of trauma; say someone who was in an abusive relationship for 5 years, and suffered beatings, etc for that entire time. | I always wondered what "complex PTSD" meant, thank you for the info.
I voted many incidents. While married to my ex, the abuse was gradual over the four years. He got increasing violent as time passed until he inflicted the most severe beating on my official "trauma date". |
28-05-2008, 11:17 PM
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I voted many incidents. I don't know what to count as an incident. If I just count separate body memories, then probably around 40 or 50 of physical and sexual assaults from when I was a baby to maybe around age 10? Plus a sexual assault at knifepoint when I was 19. But then there's also prolonged starvation at around age 12, and emotional abuse the whole time I was living at home till I was 20.
It's weird seeing that written down in black and white. Part of me still wants to believe that I had a normal childhood and that nothing is wrong with me now. Denial can be amazingly strong. |
24-06-2008, 05:16 AM
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respectfully having only one traumatic incident does not make you a freak nor does having dozens. these event were not our idea. may your suffering decrease! |
25-06-2008, 04:50 PM
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Posts: 39
| | Can't figure how to vote because...
My experiences were too numerous to count- the mere thought is laughable. I regularly had sleep deprivation, little food, physical activities to the point of physical collapse, rape, torture practices, being poisoned, other sexual acts, forced to participate in the slaughter of small animals- especially pets, required to memorize vast expanses of literature-dictionaries-poetry (and woe betide if I got anything wrong), cleaning tasks too revolting to describe, verbal assault, mental manipulations of all kinds, plus the ever-present threat of my immanent death. I once had a bruise the shape of a gun barrel in my forehead for a week... but I digress. I can't vote because all of this took place constantly, without respite, for 7 years. And then he died. And since then, the only thing that is trauma to me is my history. I am one of very few incest survivors who has never been re-victimized. For which I am profoundly grateful. red |
26-06-2008, 09:24 PM
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I voted "many incidents".. And I feel like a freak too, if that's of any comfort to anyone. I keep on thinking that the things I have survived, well- anyone could. And I feel like such a sissy for letting it bring me down! I sometimes wish that it was just one single incident, 'cause in my mind, that would be easier to cope with. Just one event to haunt me, instead of several, just floating in my mind, making a mess... |
20-07-2008, 08:03 AM
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The trigger that haunts me the most in my life isnt even the scariest thing in Iraq that I dealt with. It just convinces me that our minds are unpredictable about what can finnally cause the break. Thats why i get so ashamned and angry about my ptsd cause it was nothing compared to other events or what other soldiers went through | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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