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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
When someone struggles with PTSD, the shame they feel is how they can experience a trigger and not be able to control it and make it stop. Society tends to send a constant message of how important it is to gain control over one's emotions and to be ashamed of yourself if you struggle with that.
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Society really does call for "full control over one's self and mind". The thing is, how much control does someone really have, not simply over the world around them, but over their own mind? I know I don't have much. Just today, the intrusive memories have been non-stop and I've been dissociating again. So far, no flashbacks, but I know they're going to happen soon. I'm always like this before the flashbacks begin because things in my head just repeatedly trigger them. I hear voices and they tell me things, and then I lose all control. If society understood this, maybe they wouldn't be such dicks about it.