do i have PTSD? (please read)

I read some disgusting things on the net, it hurts my feelings, but I didn't realize it was offensive until some months after i read it, i dont feel traumatized by it, ive learned to co-ope with it, i dont sit still doing nothing, i go to school almost every day, and i feel happy every once in a while, i can laugh, smile, have a good time etc., i dont feel down all the time.

i also have some sort of stalker who appeared on various locations and asked me to sit in his car, but i didnt do it, but i felt uncomfortable, it was very unpleasant.

i dont feel the fear and disgust when i think of what happened as i felt then, its unpleasant to think about, but i can remember that i was very afraid when the guy chased me, i was disgusted and just wanted to be somewhere else at the time, and when i read the disgusting stuff on the internet, i can remember the unbearable disgust i felt when i READ it, just like when i experienced being chased, but now i dont feel that great disgust anymore.

ive been able to do my daily chores, homework, hobbies, taking walks etc. just fine

am i traumatized, or just humiliated?

remember, i felt the REAL disgust sometime after the events, rape, domestic violence, bullying, kidnapping etc., you feel the disgust right there, right then.

Hi, hjasshj! There might be some trauma there, but it's ok if you deal with things differently, it's probably different for everyone. I'm sorry you went through that stuff.

obviously we cant diagnose you,only a psych can do that. you havnt really said whats happened to you, or the symptoms you have.
fear and disgust when thinking about something bad thats happened doesnt equal ptsd, its quite normal. thats not to say you dont have ptsd because as i said we cant diagnose you and we dont have all the information. whether you do or dont have it, experiences can obviously still hurt and can still need to be talked about. ptsd does tend to take over your life for a period of time.

i can at least tell that I would faint if I experienced that again, it was the creepiest, scariest, most disturbing and disgusting event in my life, from now on I will travel by car and never leave my hometown and walk outside from it, just stay with my relatives etc., give me a break…

what a motherf’ing asshole, was it the meaning to disturb me like that?

how would you feel if someone chased you across an entire bridge, asking you to sit in his/her car for a half hour back and forth?

anyway, i talked to my psych, he says im not traumatized and that he and my parents + people around me would notice it in a heartbeat if i were, im just upset by it.

If you went through traumatic events, you can just pretend that you're ok, for other people's eyes. It's not always obvious (I think). If you don't get flashbacks or stuff like that, it's probably not PTSD.

jasmin wrote:If you went through traumatic events, you can just pretend that you're ok, for other people's eyes. It's not always obvious (I think). If you don't get flashbacks or stuff like that, it's probably not PTSD.

No, I don't have strong flashbacks, and not too long ago I "confronted" my past by walking over the bridge, if I were traumatized I probably wouldn't manage to walk across that bridge again.

Ok, then, I'm glad. It sounds like you're doing well.

the guy i met shook my hand and asked me if i wanted his phone number.

this leads me to believe that the person i met may be unstable or lonely or both, it doesn't seem like he wanted to do me something bad.

remember, i live in a country with less than 10 million people, there are countries out there with similar landscape to mine and similiar infrastructure, like the US, although the landscape varies.

the thing i experienced were physically possible, unusual, but possible, don't you think someone may have experienced the same as or at least something similar to me?

Yah, possibly, why?

jasmin wrote:Yah, possibly, why?

i dont want to feel alone.