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| | Notices | Welcome to PTSD Forum. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a life threatening, debilitating disorder that can break down a sufferer’s body through anxiety and stress. Further it poses a significant suicide risk resulting from the brains neurological imbalance and chemical depression. Sufferers often live in denial, thus this community is aimed at helping PTSD sufferers help themselves through others experiences, guidance and education. We are here for the sufferer, spouse and families surrounding PTSD. Spouses and family are too often forgotten in this equation, and often they receive all the worst that PTSD has to offer. If you're involved in any way with PTSD, get registered and help yourself now. Non-active members will eventually be deleted. If you are not a sufferer, carer or someone within the mental health industry, and active, then there is little reason for you to be a member of this forum. Non-active members with zero posts are deleted periodically during the year. | |
View Poll Results: What Is Your Worst Symptom? | |
anger, depression
|     | 20 | 17.24% | |
dissociation, depersonalization, avoidance
|    | 16 | 13.79% | |
flashbacks, intrusive memories
|    | 15 | 12.93% | |
hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response
|    | 9 | 7.76% | |
nightmares, insomnia, sleep disturbances
|    | 15 | 12.93% | |
negative or distorted thinking, low self-esteem
|    | 10 | 8.62% | |
anxiety, panic, agoraphobia
| | 27 | 23.28% | |
another symptom not mentioned
| | 4 | 3.45% | 
10-10-2008, 10:28 AM
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Posts: 113
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Flooding. For sure. It's unbearable and can't really be changed, just managed. |
14-10-2008, 01:42 PM
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Posts: 46
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Anxiety/Panic/Phobia.
The simple fact that I have to struggle with myself to leave the house is enough to impact my life in a major way. This is also the one thing I continually bring up to my therapist, since I have a hard time seeing any kind of future for myself if I don't get past this. |
28-10-2008, 12:39 AM
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Posts: 35
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Anger and rage, wanting revenge on those who bullied me. Then guilt for the vengeful thoughts I have towards them. It is a vicious cycle. |
30-10-2008, 08:19 PM
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Posts: 212
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I chose low self-esteem as the first I'd love to see go. I suffer chiefly from anxiety, but my negative self image robs my life of light, and I think I could put up with being anxious if I also didn't feel like such a piece of shite.
Last edited by cragger65; 30-10-2008 at 08:21 PM.
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30-10-2008, 09:27 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: South Africa
Posts: 106
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Distorted thinking needs to go! I know the fear in my head is not real, I know it is related to something which happened a long time ago and still - I can't stop linking it to the present and linking it to the people I love. It hurts me and it hurts them. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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