A comment was made tonite in a chat room about pstd. Just forgetting what happened and moving on. then the question was asked, is that to harsh to say.

Well it hurt me, so yes it was harsh to say in front of me.

It instantly brought me back to sometime in October of 2005. I was standing in line at a Walmart with a basket of new stuff, clothes, underwear, deodorant, soap, towels, you name it i needed it. I lost it all.

This man behind me asks if im a Katrina victim. I said, well yeah i guess i am. then he went on to say that a year earlier his house caught fire. The back screened in porch caught fire cause of some wiring. He said the fire burnt through the wall to their kitchen. He said they had to get new appliances for the kitchen and had to rebuild that wall and back porch. Then he goes on to say if i got through that i dont see what all you people are crying about. Ya'll need to just get over it.

I looked at him and i said, get over it. Just get over it. Well you didnt lose your entire house, everything you own, your family, your friends, your neighbors, your community, the entire town you live in. The movie theatre you went to, the school you graduated from, the church you went too. If you had lost that i think you would have a hard time getting over it too.

Then he said to me. Get over it and go to hell.

So like someone said just above. No one will understand trauma unless they've been there themselves.

Thank ya'll for responding. I needed the words and support.
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