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The ugliest thing you can do is bring up someone's past when they’ve changed.
The ugliest thing you can do is bring up someone's past when they’ve changed.
The ugliest thing you can do is bring up someone's past when they’ve changed.
The ugliest thing you can do is bring up someone's past when they’ve changed.
• Our Experience getting triggered due to our P.T.S.D.
Definition:
"PTSD triggers are everyday situations which cause a person to re-experience the traumatic event as if it was reoccurring in the present or related symptoms. These symptoms might include strong feelings, memories or emotions."
(traumapractice.co.uk)
"Triggers can include sights, sounds, smells, or thoughts that remind you of the traumatic event in some way."
(WebMD.com)
Our experience:
Although I will not be going into depth about our system's triggers, I will mention certain ways it affects our life.
One major way our P.T.S.D. triggers have affected us, is when we get triggered while we are at work. Recovering from flashbacks is hard enough when you are in a safe environment, but having to experience them while we are around other people and also being required to continue to work is incredibly challenging.
Triggers a lot of times lead to flashbacks, and flashbacks cause us to feel as if we are reliving our trauma. Although logically we may know we are not back in the abuse, the emotions and physical reactions our body has are very real and very difficult to manage. This makes it incredibly important for us to be able to have proper accommodations in our workplace.
It can take hours or even days for us to recover from a flashback depending on the severity of the trigger. It can leave us incredibly jumpy, scared, dissociated, and all around vulnerable for long periods of time. This can make it incredibly difficult to focus on getting even simple tasks done throughout the day.
I feel that it is important for us to share our experience to de-stigmatize the word “triggered”, and hopefully help people to have a better understanding of how these things can really affect a person.
mysterious, only gives vague answers to their past, and dislikes specific things for seemingly no reason is how I wanted to be before
I thought "that's the coolest character design" and... it still is but-
but now getting it. now having PTSD, I wish I could go back to before again. to not avoid certain songs, instruments, words, and even a whole calendar month, just to keep myself safe
it just makes me want to write sweet, naive characters who don't know any better because they haven't been hurt and aren't scared
Mental Stuff
I am living with ADHD, PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression. People think it’s easy. It’s not. I am here to share what it has been like so far for me and to help others to the best of my ability.
PTSD
I don’t know where my PTSD came from. I haven’t found any triggers. It might have to do with being attacked by dogs growing up. I’m living with it, that’s all I know.
Well where was I before I left...
Ahhh yes PTSD and all that comes with it. Well let me get the story out there. About 4 or 5 years ago I was sexually assaulted. I went through the legal process and I hope the guy (let's call him Jim) got prosecuted. You see Jim has 4 kids. 3 boys and a girl. I also think Jim has gotten away with it before I reported him. I just didn't want anyone else to go through that.
I'm jumpy around anyone my age or older who is male. Hugging a male can make it worse. The only person I felt safe with was Jasper.