Everything you said makes total sense, Mango. I think it's time to take care of you.
Everything you said makes total sense, Mango. I think it's time to take care of you.
I'm still a work in progress.
Currently working on: World Domination
PTSD isn't only caused by one single episode always. I don't know if what you have is PTSD, but I do have episodes of my ears ringing when I am triggered and retraumatized. Regardless, what you have been through has been really hard for you and I definitely think it warrants you talking to someone about it. Really, in the space of a few months, you had legitimate fears that you could lose not just one loved one, but a number of them, of course that's traumatising.
Sending love. X
If you can't handle me, that makes two of us.
You can also experience trauma without experiencing PTSD.
I can't think of anything worse than worrying about a sick child, so trauma is there, but the reaction to it is sounds more like prolonged and extreme stress.
It's rare to experience PTSD without experiencing flashbacks or re-living the source of trauma. It's that mental dissociation that's the real definition of PTSD. It's like switching off your 'now', and being instantly zapped into literally reliving that moment, quite often it will feel completely real.
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