11-24-2011, 09:49 PM
East Wrote:I am glad that you are in therapy for this...I didnt' notice until now re reading this that you have Post Traumatic Stress...is there a connection with PTS and the word or is this somehow related to your extreme reaction to the word?
What an informed question... I appreciate this sooo much, words fail me.
As an answer, it is a mixture. The word is intimately involved in some of the trauma I sustrained, but also there is this long running frustration that other disabilities are so much more respected than PTSD. I am constantly running up against this attitude when I need accomodation. People don't seem to understand; I can't suck it up. I actually am as much as I can already. There are weeks sometimes I don't leave my apartment at all. This feels trivialized by most of the people here. Have I not expressed myself clearly, or do they not care or not understand do you suppose? Could it be something else I have missed completely?