I WAS COUNSELED AT SCHOOL AND TOLD THAT I MAY HAVE PTSD ( DUE TO TRAUMATIC EVENTS IN RAPID SUCCESSION IN MY LIFE ) AND THAT IT " COULD HAVE AN EFFECT ON MY DECISION MAKING FOR MY FUTURE ".
THEN I WAS TOLD THAT MY BRAIN IS FAR MORE MATURE THAN MY EMOTIONS ( I HAVE A VERY HIGH IQ AND GET VERY GOOD GRADES BUT I ACT LIKE A GOOFY TEENAGER AND THESE TWO MAY BE COLLIDING ). THATS THEIR OPINION...I PREFER TO THINK I AM A PRINCESS GODDESS...HEHEHEHHEHEEEEEEEEE! ( J/K )
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE HECK TO DO WITH ME AT SCHOOL AND MY COUNSELORS OFTEN JUST LOOK AT ME AND APPEAR TO BE IN DEEP THOUGHT AND WONDERING. ( LOL ) IF I DIDNT GET THE GOOD GRADES THEY PROLY WOULD CART ME OFF TO SOME PLACE FOR PTSD.
WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH MYSELF ?
2007-04-19 15:40:16 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
First, many people have PTSD. I'm sorry for whatever must have happened to you to cause this. I suffer from it as well, so I can likely understand.
People who have very high IQ's tend to deal with PTSD, or the events that caused it a bit differently than others. We tend to be a bit creative, dissociate, and compartmentalize a bit more than others.
As far as decision making, I'm not sure that this has severe effect day-to-day. It might make you a bit conservative, and a bit more reluctant to take risks. This isn't always a bad thing.
If you have severe PTSD, stressful situations could lead to bad choices. This might cause problems if you (for example) have a flashback while driving. Sooner or later though, you'll develop tools to be able to tell when a situation is becoming difficult, and you will have a bit of time to get you out of that situation.
A service animal can help during these times. With a legitimate diagnosis, you can have a service animal with you, that will be able to be with you in schools or restaurants. This is something you might look into. Having such a companion can help prevent flashbacks. These animals are much like service dogs for the blind, and are called Emotional Support Service Animals (ESSA). If you wish to have them with you in places where pets are not allowed, you'll need to have an animal that is extremely well-behaved, and some states may require that they be certified somehow.
Resources that you might look into are NAMI and the ADA. PTSD is a mental illness, and as such, you are covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Please ignore the fools that say that everyone has PTSD because everyone has had traumatic stress. These people don't understand the difference between stress and a disorder caused by traumatic stress.
Everyone has experienced the loss of a loved one. Not everyone has been subjected to severe abuse or near drowning while young or warfare or other such traumatic events. There is a huge ignorant camp that thinks mental illness is made up. Please ignore such people and get the help you need.
2007-04-19 15:57:29 · answer #1 · answered by Deirdre H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the diagnosis home with you and set it on a shelf until it becomes dusty and forgotten. you can take it down and look at it in your thirties if you like, dust it off a little, and remember just how messed up counselors really are. it will at least give you a chuckle.
what should you do with yourself? live a good life. do good things. channel your energy into something artistic or beautiful. start a group, lay around in bed, stare at a leaf, start a journal. just live. all things shall pass.
2007-04-19 15:49:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you tried meditation?
Mediatation would be only a first step but it is a necessary one for anything else I may suggest.
You need to be able to turn off the brain sometimes just like you turn off a computer when you are finished with the task.
2007-04-19 15:47:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only speak for myself.
After PTSD, it took megadosing myself on mutli-vitamins for many months to even begin to feel normal. And that wasn't until years afterward.
Your body and particularly your brain are using up massive amounts of common nutrients, and will continue to do so until the damage is corrected.
Consult a doctor first.
I can only speak from my own personal experience.
2007-04-19 15:47:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go with the Princess Goddess thing.
2007-04-19 15:44:34 · answer #5 · answered by 17hunter 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You should seek, and actively participate in, therapy.
I'm glad that you are an intelligent person, it may help you with insight during therapy, but it won't stop you from feeling what you are feeling.
2007-04-19 15:45:38 · answer #6 · answered by Samurai Jack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, stop yelling for one thing.
2007-04-19 15:45:02 · answer #7 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Welcome to the club. So do I. Just mature and live life with grace.
2007-04-19 15:46:20 · answer #8 · answered by Tribble Macher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋