Greetings everyone!
Welcome to my blog today on the hl-w218e2 prompt.
Post trauma
PTSD
post traumatic stress disorder
This is a condition that develops after someone has had a bad experience in the past that traumatized him or her
Not every experience can lead to PTSD only the traumatized ones the ones that cannot be forgotten and when remembered put you in shock or hurt
My friend had a post trauma for vehicles. She is always scared when walking on the road because of a period she was involved in an accident. Hearing the cars horn brings fears to her
This is also because of an event that her brain cannot let go of
Anytime she see vehicles her brain perceives danger, her breathing quickens sweat covers her skin if care is not taken she can enter into panic attack.
Another of my friends has this thing with cockroaches. Funny her small these creatures are but she can scream down the whole building . There’s was a night that she’s was sleeping and according to her something was crawling on her body only for her to switch on her touch and saw cockroach, she starting shouting and crying she could not even sleep in her room . I was even laughing because I was baffled and surprised that she’s crying for small cockroach.
One of my friends also has a very sad experience that even I cannot forget . When this experiences was narrated to me I was pained and I felt bad for my friend
My friend was molested at an early age by an older person
This kept going on for years this made my friend to start masturbating and always weird fantasies when they see people
After my friend grew up became a teenager that’s know wrong from right up to this moment my friend cannot seems to forget the experience , sometimes it’s makes my friend question his existence
My friend keeps on asking this question why me?
Though the abuses has stopped but the memories remains in his memory and it’s disturbing and alarming
PSTD is something very serious , Imagine living with traumas images memories of something terrible that happened to you
You can’t close your eyes , you keep on remembering it and everyday there are glitches of it
PTSD turns people life upside down it’s makes one to dwell in the past
There’s something I say to my friends everyday ,I tell them that “your past does not define “ it’s the present and the future , so leave what’s has happened though it’s hard and difficult to do please focus on the new you focus on a better version of yourself.
I tell them that they are more than what’s has happened and they can talk to me anytime . I will always be here to walk through that difficult path with them
In conclusion
people with PTSD get better ,It’s not a death sentence it can be managed and treated . Just learn to open up to the right person/people.
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