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View Poll Results: What Is Your Worst Symptom? | |
anger, depression
|    | 14 | 17.28% | |
dissociation, depersonalization, avoidance
|    | 13 | 16.05% | |
flashbacks, intrusive memories
|    | 9 | 11.11% | |
hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response
|    | 7 | 8.64% | |
nightmares, insomnia, sleep disturbances
|    | 10 | 12.35% | |
negative or distorted thinking, low self-esteem
|    | 7 | 8.64% | |
anxiety, panic, agoraphobia
| | 17 | 20.99% | |
another symptom not mentioned
| | 4 | 4.94% | 
16-06-2007, 08:36 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Chicago.
Posts: 43
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My worse symptom is awful self esteem. I was forever told I was rotten and worthless, and I've internalized it. My deepest depressions come from this. Along with the distorted belief that I'm useless and unlovable. Yep, this one's a bugger for me. |
17-06-2007, 06:20 PM
| | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: CA
Posts: 77
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I chose anxiety because it is always here for me. I think it effects every part of me, how I feel, how I relate to people and the world, decisions and choices...I can't think of one thing it doesn't effect, everything else is specific to what's going on that particular moment. Do anxiety attacks lead to panic attacks, or can they happen independantly, at the same time? |
20-06-2007, 12:55 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Newfoundland & Labrador
Posts: 2,303
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Quote:
Originally Posted by anthony  I just added anxiety for you Evie.... issue fixed. Super moderators and above can change polls if required. | Thanks so much Anthony. I don't know why I didn't just request an edit, I guess I didn't realize it was possible. |
20-06-2007, 01:46 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: U.S.A. Kansas
Posts: 3,540
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That is OK I should have known I was able to fix it too but my head has been lodged firmly is my ass of late. |
21-06-2007, 12:04 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: T. Bay, Ontario Canada
Posts: 3,181
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I picked hypervigilance as my worst. I've been mulling over how to explain why for a day or two now. The best I can describe it as is that it never quits. It's 24/7 for over 20 years (at least) and many of my other symptoms are increased from it. Others, like nightmares, I'm just used to and consider it normal. The hypervigilance makes me feel crazy because I KNOW that many times the environment or situation does not warrant my reaction.
Nic will probably explain this better if I made it all jumbled.
bec |
25-07-2007, 08:15 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 797
| |  worst symptom
I have to pick just one? I was rated like Batgirl, highest on everything, so I think my worst sitmptom would have to be angrysleepdeprivation. |
23-09-2007, 03:24 AM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 820
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Really difficult one to answer, it made me think! I put anxiety as the worst, as that has a direct knock on effect on everything else, and I think generally anxiety is what is around the most for me. Though I was tempted to put nightmares as that is also forever present too. But I can get over nightmares through the day better than I can anxiety which I am having a hard time escaping at the moment. Other than that I was next thinking hypervigilance, that's around most nights for me, and then avoidance, probably my biggest hindrence to recovery....
good poll. Breaks down PTSD into several things I know I need to deal with. |
10-10-2007, 07:30 AM
| | | | Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 10
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I picked dissociation. Over the past couple of years, the other symptoms have subsided over the past few years, but I'm still pretty cut off the outside world. |
09-11-2007, 11:13 AM
| | Moderated Member | | Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 82
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I don't have the words for my worst experience the last maybe 6 months have been able to think better and less pain mixing more again too .I find it hard to break down the experience into processes and to find the words.
Confusion is on the way to understanding (i hope) |
06-02-2008, 11:52 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Florida, USA
Posts: 1,103
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I just found this poll, good one Evie. I chose the agoraphobia since that is the one I feel is almost impossible to overcome. It certainly is the one that affects my life the most. After all, it is the 1 that put me in the hospital and cost me my really good job | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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