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Originally Posted by apocalipstic
I have been requested to start a thread on Trauma survival and recovery.
I looked up symptoms of PTSD as a place to start.
Symptoms of PTSD can include:
- Hypervigilance and scanning [check]
- Elevated startle response [check]
- Blunted affect, psychic numbing [check]
- Aggressive, controlling behavior (a high degree of insistence on getting your way) [only in the car when I feel the driver is going too fast or being dangerous and I am scared out of my mind]
- Interruption of memory and concentration [check]
- Depression [check]
- Generalized anxiety [check]
- Violent eruptions of rage [nope]
- Substance abuse [recovering 24 years]
- Intrusive recall -- different from normal memory in that it brings with it stress and anxiety [check]
- Dissociative experiences, including dissociative flashbacks [check]
- Insomnia [check]
- Suicidal ideation [nope]
- Survivor guilt [check]
Thoughts? |
My answers are in red. I will come back and say more later.