Abuse.....?

Question

Have you ever gone through it? Do you suffer from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) too? If so how do you handle it? If not, what are some ways you would handle it or cope with it?

Would be helpful to know how to get through such a life altering experience such as mental and/or physical abuse.

Answer 1

Unforn. No I never experienced that kind of abuse. Here and then I do go through some damaging words from family and maybe incidents in my life where my dad got really angry...they do haunt me but not enough to go through PTSD.

I dont know how I would go through it. Not easily, be haunting me each and every day. I know I would find as much support as I could from my friends and family when i needed it. May check myself in to see a shrink to discuss the matter in hopes of digging down deep enough to find the real big damage. Would try to tell myself that my life is different, and that it's the past....that i would do what i can to prevent the same pattern and make each day as great as I could. I'd turn to God for support and guidance..trusting He is helping me each step of the way. Maybe...with enough strength..confront the person and try to make peace...understand why..and how they feel now about what they did. Spend my whole life trying to forgive them.

Basically, i'd do all i could to ease the pain and make sense of what happened. tell myself it wasnt my fault, that i didn't do anything wrong to deserve it, and that it was a huge mistake and bad luck. I dunno..it's tough. I'm not in your shoes, so i honestly cant give you a straight forward fair answer. All i can say is..if one experience altered your life, then with the rest of your life..you can alter it again with a different experience...a happier more fulfilling one to balance it. God bless, and good luck! :)

Answer 2

I have had PTSD since 2001. There is no cure that I know of or been told of. I finally broke down and got put on meds to help with the symptoms...I have nightmares and flashbacks all the time...I stay in bed for days, have major depressive disorder and severe panic attacks as well. I have been looking for a support group to join since no one seems to understand what I am going through and how I feel. It is hard to get over and some people manage to get over trauma...I have had a lot of trauma in a short amount of time...I was abused by my husband who abused my son that was only 3 and almost killed him...then the same year my b/f took his life because this was so hard on everyone...It was just one thing after another...the library has workbooks you can check out on PTSD and they help a little bit but when I remember something or have a flashback or even talk to my counselor about the traumatic things that have happened it makes it really hard on me.

Answer 3

I think everyone has this to a certain degree. And I am not in any way trying to minimalize anyone's perspective of it but I really think some people make it out to be worse than it is. When I was growing up my mother was extremely abusive. In fact she still is to this very day. But when I grew up and was old enough to form my own individual opinion and had a choice of how to live my life, I saw something wrong with her behavior and chose not to be like her. The best way I overcame it was by totally disconnecting from her as well as others who reflected the same behavior towards me. Now I am a relatively normal person and do just fine as a mother and wife. But it was hard getting to that point and took a lot of courage as well as I had to step outside of what was familiar to me. The greatest cure for me personally was that I left the past in the past and surrounded myself with people who were positive and encouraged me. My husband has especially been my greatest buddy as far as reminding me not feel guilty and of the fact that I have progressed in so many positive ways. Medication and therapy is not the cure. You have to accept it from within yourself and be in the mind set to really make a change and to find a way to cope successfully.