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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: Do You Have Anger Issues Regarding This Forum? | |
Yes, I get angry and struggle with it sometimes.
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I used to get angry but I have it under control now.
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No, I never get angry on the forum.
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13-08-2008, 08:34 PM
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people here are cool but I've typed some angry stuff to some of the jerks on the Jeep board. there are a lot of jerks on those. |
28-10-2008, 04:01 PM
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I'm new here. I'm not angry but something does, actually, bother me. I have PTSD. I have trouble navigating this site at times and am easily frustrated by my own feelings of inadequacy. Nevertheless, when I received a 'demerit' for not putting a proper title on something I wrote, still under moderation, my first reaction was OMG!!! I freaking made a mistake!! They won't let me in!! OMG!!! My face felt hot and flushed and I felt panicky and stressed out... YO!! chicken little!! The sky ain't fallin' today... ; )
I guess I didn't mean to post a new thread or mess up the title punctuation... and the mode my mind and emotions have been in lately didn't lead me to feeling very confident in the first place....so it really caught me off guard. Oh.. yeah.. my guard stays up most times. And after that, it will stay that way for a while.... |
29-10-2008, 03:13 AM
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No, I haven't really gotten angry about anything on here. I think it is run quite responsibly and I so appreciate that.
I do get annoyed when people don't captilize things or they are all in one paragraph and rambling because I find it hard to read. But I do realize that they are releasing pent up stuff rapidly, so I understand. |
29-10-2008, 04:46 AM
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yes. today. I get upset and angry when I think I finally get something right only to find another infraction for it.
Am I a carer? Or a sufferer? Can't I be both?
If my son may also have ptsd? Isn't it possible for a parent who has it, to have a child who does, too? At the hands of the person who gave it to both?
More confusion, frustration, upset... and I try not to be angry. It solves nothing. |
29-10-2008, 11:08 AM
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Posts: 391
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No... however, I do get frustrated with myself, because of the emotions that come tumbling out. I expect to be all better yesterday, thanks! It's very upseting when I realize I've got a lot of work to do... |
29-10-2008, 03:34 PM
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Posts: 1,910
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Midi...change your thinking. I look at it like this and it helps the days go by a little better. With PTSD you are going to have good and bad days..so expect them..both good and bad, Enjoy the good ones, cherish them but always know that the bad days are going to come...but they are not going to stay forever and you have the tools and are learning the tools to live with them. It makes dealing with the bad days a bit easier, at least that is how it is working for me right now. |
30-10-2008, 12:28 PM
|  | | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Upstate NY, USA
Posts: 440
| |  taking space and getting back focus
I did get angry in April, May, and June. So I removed the aggravation by leaving for a while.
I've now returned. Initially I left because I didn't want to get wrapped up in the politics which I have limited tolerance for. I get angry when participants don't/can't respect the established limits of this site that is volunteer and donated. I wish the dissatisfied would just move on - QUIETLY. Confrontation in any form is very difficult for me and often triggers my anxiety levels.
I've returned with new strategies. I choose what I participate and read very carefully. I offer information when I feel I have personal experience with the topic. I gain insight and am reminded of unfinished business often. This site has so much to offer when utilized in the right way for the individual who is using it!I appreciate all that I recieve from the members of all groups.
Cindy |
30-10-2008, 12:52 PM
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Posts: 896
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I don't get angry at things said on this forum because I come here with the full knowledge that everyone here is hurting and healing as much as I am, so expect posts to be full of people's personal pain and since we are all exposing ourselves and our wounds here, I am empathetic. Unless someone smells like they are really trying to be an arse on purpose to hurt me or another poster, I give them the benefit of the doubt for a day. Sometimes I just ask the speaker, "Are you trying to be an AH, or is this an accident?" |
31-10-2008, 06:51 AM
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Sometimes I do, I read an old thread and all those responses were so harsh and cold and demanding, even those from moderators, and the thread starter never said anything rude or insulting. I´ve read so much more hurting posts where commentators were so nice and warm and welcoming. I´m not surprised at all s/he dosen´t come here anymore. I could relate to this particular problem and it hurt to read those responses. It made me angry.
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