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Jun 15, 2008, 07:38 PM
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Do you know what it feels like to have a persistent feeling of guilt --a feeling like someone is going to find out something about you and your life will come apart?
Seems like there is nothing specific that causes the guilt "complex." I can reach back and find plenty of things I should feel guilty about, but this pervasive feeling I'm talking about here must be an accumulation of lots of things. If I had ... If I could ... Why did I ... Why didn't I ... What could I have ... A constant tightness of the chest, a feeling of weakness in muscles, alert to sounds and people around me ... kind of like a feeling that I should get up and move, get out, run ... Note -- this is not posted to get sympathy ... I'm still grinding my teeth over the person on the other site who made such a big deal about "never give sympathy to a ptsd vet" ... arghhhhh. Where can we tell these kinds of things if not here?
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Jun 15, 2008, 08:04 PM
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Guilt is a constant in my life and I'm not even sure why. My rational mind tells me I'm not to blame but somehow it doesn't connect.
Maybe because there is no one else left alive to blame for everything that went down so I blame myself. And then there is survivors guilt which packs a wallop too. So yes, Troy. I too feel guilty. 
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Jun 15, 2008, 08:52 PM
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Yes. Feelings of guilt are quite common with PTSD. It is that disconnect you speak of Orange, that inhibits healing...yet remaining consistent at putting the right data into the brain will eventually connect... even when you don't fully believe it yourself, keep telling yourself that there really is no reason for guilt... even if you feel you didn't do some things you should have or did some things you shouldn't have, that is not logical thinking and needs to be blocked... at this point with ptsd, it's all bets off and you didn't do anything worthy of guilt.
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Jun 16, 2008, 07:57 AM
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Troy
you said "If I had ... If I could ... Why did I ... Why didn't I ... What could I have ..." I do the same......I call it the shoulda woulda couldas in my life.... Yes quilt comes with PTSD..... I agree with ((orange)))) its called survivors guilt.....and it does pack a wallop |
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