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17-05-2008, 04:48 AM
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| |  If You Where an Animal, What Kind Would You Be?
I was recently asked to describe to someone the best way to approach and handle my PTSD. Much to my surprise this answer came out!
I am like a small, untamed puppy.You never know what I am going to do or how I will react.
If you reach out to touch me and I might:
1. wag my tail and be happy to see you
2. then again I might just bite you
3. I might run and hide under the bed
4. other times I will just get scared and pee on the floor
5. I may come when you call me and I may not
6. But most of the time I am just scared. Very very scared.
Bringing a scared puppy out of it's shell is a long a tedious process. Sometimes it never works and the puppy never comes around.
So this is my question. If you were an animal, what would you be?
Describe how you react to situations as that animal, etc.
I'm not nuts, I just think my unconscious reaction to the question I was asked is interesting that's all |
17-05-2008, 05:34 AM
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My first reaction is to say a cat, due to my love of my little feline companions. However, everyone has always called me "mouse" because I'm small. When I think of the PTSD, I think a mouse is appropriate. I can be playful and all, but have you ever seen how a mouse reacts when it is put into a cage with a snake? They shake uncontrolably, and I've heard that they can even die due to the fear and anxiety. Well, that's how I am when it comes to the trauma. I am like that little mouse who knows it is trapped and will be hurt/killed. This is how I reacted during the traumatic events as well as how I act now when trying to confront them. |
17-05-2008, 07:30 AM
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| | beverages down before you read this
My husband wants to be a bonobo. |
17-05-2008, 11:14 AM
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I would be a monkey
I love bananas
Swinging from tree to tree feeling free as when I parasailed
intelligent
Playing dumb, knowing more than given credit for
teachable
make faces and get away with it
powerful when needed
do tricks and get attention for it
loveable
sunnydaze |
17-05-2008, 12:27 PM
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An eagle by day, a panther by night |
17-05-2008, 12:34 PM
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I'm a box turtle! I can close up completely at the first sign of danger, and I do most things deliberately. Plus, I don't bite. |
17-05-2008, 01:30 PM
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A bird
Free to fly with the wind
(Going with the flow of life and feel good about it)
Live in harmony with "birds of a feather"
(Understand "my own kind" without judgment)
Know when mother nature is going to be fierce
(Learning to react to instincts properly)
Fly South in the winter to be by the ocean
(Loving to travel to different places, esp. water and warm air)
Sing/chirp a song when spring comes
(Happy for new growth from the earth)
$hit on someone's car after they wash it
(The mischievous side of me) LOL
On the flip side I don't like the thought of eating worms or bugs, and as an animal I would always have to be on the lookout for a predator ready to eat me. The cycle of life insists on this for survival. |
18-05-2008, 01:10 AM
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I'd be.... a dragon!! Guess cos it would make me feel powerful and strong which is the opposite to how I actually feel!
Has anyone seen The Golden Compass? I'd be Pan... because I could change into many animals and I'd have someone who I'd never leave and could never leave me... *gag* how sad is that?
Or... a doggy.... a puppy for all the same reasons Grama-Herc said!!
I LOVE sunnydaze's reply LOL!!!!
2quilt... sorry to be thick... WHAT is a BONOBO?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
18-05-2008, 04:21 AM
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Lisa
Glad you asked that question! I was to embarrassed to admit I had NO CLUE
Thanks |
18-05-2008, 04:24 AM
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I guess I need to clarify my orginal question. I wanted people to compare their symptoms and feeling to a type of animal that would be describe them.
Although I am enjoying the other responses also | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode | 
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