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"Post" Traumatic Stress vs *Current*

arfie
arfie

With the proliferation of pandemic management victims within my PTSD support network, I find myself wondering if there is such a thing as "Current Traumatic Stress Disorder." CTSD? Inside my own skin, the accumulated trauma of 2020, year two is, beyond a doubt, creating its own set of psycho ticks, but those psycho ticks still feel different from the psycho ticks which were addressed in my PTSD therapy. The COVID pandemic ain't over. The psychotherapy tools I use to disarm the ghosts of kiddie whorehouses gone-by are not working well on the masked guards of my current isolation.


Am I making any sense, whatsoever? Reality checks requested.


Again I leave the mood icon on the rapid cycling median.

Stitch06
Stitch06
i think a lot of what we learn to help with our PTSD is how to be “present” so you know you are safe and so on...

it’s hard when you don’t want to be in the here and now. the trauma is going on now. we don’t want to be here and now.

i don’t have answers but it makes sense to me.

hugs and love arfie xxx
arfie
arfie
Part of my PTSD therapy is building an awareness of **when** I am reacting to. My neighbor's security lighting is NOT a child pornography set, regardless of how similar the lights are. My neighbor's lights are only the trigger. It be "Shirley Temple in a G-string" and all **her** dirty secrets who needs the therapy focus. Isolation and social distancing were among the tools by which her stage performances were facilitated.

Are the perpetrators of my current isolation trigger, trauma or a brand new social confusion? For sure, ^it^ is still going on with no end in sight.

Sorting. . . Onward through the 2020 fog. . .
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
Gentle hug Arf.... I agree that when trauma is present and ongoing it's hard to put therapy into place when feeling like you're still so vulnerable

Another hug and a blessing will you sort.....xo
arfie
arfie
Thank you, SunCloud. Prayers in progress that I can ply an ounce of prevention before the new yaddahs homogenize with the old blahs.

Just praying. . .
Also reminding myself that some of Life's greatest blessings are unanswered prayers. What I think I want isn't always what I need.
graeme
graeme
I often use the term CSTD as well as PSTD. I find them both very real. huggg
arfie
arfie
With "C" being "Complex" PTSD?

A problem with acronyms is that there are a great many "C's" in the dictionary. I've heard quite a few creative add-ons to PTSD. I can imagine a Corona PTSD without much effort.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
Good point, arfie, this time with this pandemic it's not "post" at all, it's the trauma gift that keeps on giving. Holy cow. Enough, already, right?
arfie
arfie
Amen, Muji. The regular anxiety forums are being inundated lately.

The opportunistic infections of Coronaville are rampant. May the cure take fewer lives than the disease.
Secouya
Secouya
I agree Arfie, Pandemic trauma keeps ongoing like the energizer bunny. When will it all end?
arfie
arfie
Control freaks never give up control so easily. Even after we quit listening and obeying, a control freak keeps on attempting to control.

I fear it will end with ever greater and more rigid social distances. The gap between seniors and children is greater and institutionalized than ever, by law.

Gee. . . Why is the mental health pandemic escalating by leaps and bounds?
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