PTSD?

I have DID and complex ptsd, but it doesnt affect me here

Interesting…I need another voting category lol!

I have been called "severely anxious and hyper vigilant" but never diagnosed with PSTD.

I don't feel that has affected how I interact on the forums.

I never feel "triggered" just ticked off which is different.

I am horrified w/myself when I react to pious and judgmental posts with, um, a different kind of pious and judgmental post. Someone called me on it today and it is a positive thing.

I envy those who are not affected a bit. I have trouble in a couple areas, one is reading about similar situations to mine, that can sometimes cause me a lot of anxiety and dissociation if I overdo it. The other is responding to posts that get contentious.... it's a bit easier I guess, with PTS, to become riled up, and have it last longer and be more agitating than without PTS, and that's true in my experience. When I'm in an upsetting conversation here, I have a hard time calming down.

I do have PTSD.. But I don't generally find myself triggered by threads.

I do dissociate or flash back in real life. I just never thought to call it being triggered.
I do not react that way to these forums.

My PTSD doesn't get triggered on these forums. I guess it is just from the training I had in my former career. I tend to read things here with a more clinical distance. I feel sympathy and empathy but I see the situations or feelings of the posters as being their own. Even when they sometimes mirror my own, I am able to separate the fact that it is their own journey and I don't need to personalize it to my experience in order to try to be helpful.

I have had one time in which I got really angry/upset about what someone posted. That was when someone outright attacked me (cursing and saying that I had no idea what it was like to suffer from a certain disorder) in a thread that I started. It is only when someone is making their feelings of anger or sadness about me that I get triggered. Even then I realize that they are apparently suffering and are lashing out at anyone or everyone.

Thanks to everyone who has shared their experiences on this thread. I don't have PTSD and have never understood the word "triggered," but now it makes much more sense to me!

I do not suffer from PTSD, although my T refers to some incidents in my early childhood as traumas. I often feel upset, angry or frustrated with things I read on these boards, but that is because I am overly sensitive and cannot abide conflicts (which is more of a national character trait than anything else ), not because I am triggered.

I'm perhaps unusual in that I get the most out of these boards when I'm feeling ok - when I'm already emotionally fragile I try to stay away, though I am not as good at doing that as I could wish.

My onset of PTSD was over a decade ago. The worst part is over but symptoms still reoccur from time to time.

No, I don't believe it affects my interactions here. At least not yet.