PTSD

Dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is not an easy thing, people often alienate you or misunderstand what is really going on. It is something you have no control over, a smell, an item of clothing, a sound, a person can trigger it and the feeling is horrifically overwhelming. For me I was a bushfire victim and suffer from child abuse from a complete asshole of a stepfather so someone that looks like him, sounds like him, shit even the name Steve triggers an episode where I relive those past experiences 23+ years later with very little control to stay in reality until it passes. Unfortunately people say I am taking things too personally and that the latest trigger is not Steve so what is the problem ... try telling my brain that. If only it was that easy. I know I may come across as a fruitloop but there is a reason for it, thus this little post.