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This is probably an obvious question, so I hope you'll bear with me.
I have PTSD - was hit by a drunk driver in January and seriously injured in the crash. The PTSD was "brought on" by the accident, but there are other contributing factors from my past that made me more susceptible to it happening.
So, I have these anger surges now. And I almost feel silly asking about this, because I guess that is par for the course?
But I'm wondering if you have these anger surges, how you deal with them? Prior to the accident, I rarely became angry. When I did become angry, it was over something huge.
Now, the slightest thing has me raging inside. I find it hard to even put to words the awful things I think in my head - particularly since the rage is way out of whack with the incident that's occured.
I'm seeing a psych who specializes in PTSD, and it's going well, but we've just begun the process.
So, your thoughts?
I have PTSD - was hit by a drunk driver in January and seriously injured in the crash. The PTSD was "brought on" by the accident, but there are other contributing factors from my past that made me more susceptible to it happening.
So, I have these anger surges now. And I almost feel silly asking about this, because I guess that is par for the course?
But I'm wondering if you have these anger surges, how you deal with them? Prior to the accident, I rarely became angry. When I did become angry, it was over something huge.
Now, the slightest thing has me raging inside. I find it hard to even put to words the awful things I think in my head - particularly since the rage is way out of whack with the incident that's occured.
I'm seeing a psych who specializes in PTSD, and it's going well, but we've just begun the process.
So, your thoughts?
I'm normally (pre-accident) a highly analytical person and not particularly angry. So I feel weird having these feelings of rage. It's good to know others have the same experience.
Ager is an emotion with very bad rep and people like to guilt others for feeling it.
The only thing i can tell you is that try not to feel guilty for feeling it, you can use it to heal, do art, write, ect...
Be gentle with yourself, is what we do with our anger that matters.And is normal to feel it, specially for PTSD sufferers.
It is normal...healthy for us to express this anger.
Yes, I know that we tend to go overboard with this anger, and it is important to learn how to reign it in so to speak through the use of healthy coping skills, however, it is not healthy to repress it. If you repress your anger, it will just build up inside and end up being expressed in worse ways down the road.
Good Luck!