Hello Everyone,
As someone who's undergone quite a bit of therapy in my life because of PTSD, (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) I've come to take on a great deal of interest with psychology, as well as the philosophical components of psychology.
I see psychology as a way to analyze thought patterns both negative and positive, and see philosophy as a way to make sense of our thinking and relate it to life itself.
Through my sessions in therapy, different forms of coping mechanisms would be explored with how to deal with symptoms which re-emerge because of an ingrained trauma which occurred in the patients lifetime.
Grounding techniques, and thought pattern recognition and behavioral modifications to the patterns, but what I felt therapy always was lacking in was ways to really fix the ingrained traumas associated to PTSD. Like a lifelong bag of problems that we must learn how to cope with and accept as always being present. I do not agree with this.
I'm not licensed in psychology and cannot claim (nor would I want to claim) to be a professional in the field, so the thoughts expressed here are just my personal insights and opinions regarding the subject matter.
Through a traumatic experience years ago of being confined to a solitary confinement cell for six months straight, I learned how to find healing with trauma, or at least start making progress with it.
It's ironic to think that a traumatic experience might help give insight with how to heal from trauma, but this is exactly what Viktor Frankl speaks of with his Logotherapy model in his book Man's Search For Meaning, which adheres to the idea of finding meaning in one's life as a process to heal from traumatic experience(s).
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The nature of my post here is to recognize a real phenomenon of a trauma based co-emergence of trauma based stress, that can occur between people, where roots of PTSD are at play.
first let's talk briefly about a constructive mindset for healing from PTSD, as I see it.
During my confinement, I came to realize that wounds of the past hardly matter in the present moment. That to stay firmly planted in a traumatic memory and allow it to create stress is to give power to a non existent force that no longer has any sway over a persons existence. That in terms of traumatic experiences where some form of abuse or other trauma may have occurred, a genuine forgiveness must occur with the victim, and the experience must be recognized as not important and let go of. In the sense where it's an experience not relating to a victim/perpetrator, recognition and acceptance of the traumatic experience must be perceptualized in a non judging fashion, and this will offer the foundation to let it go.
It is quite difficult to forget a traumatic experience unless some form of repression occurs, so the person experiencing the PTSD must be able to release the associated feelings to the trauma.
This is my conclusion to PTSD, as a true healing mechanism, and it has helped me tremendously in letting go of my childhood traumatic wounds.
But what if we are in close proximation to someone who is suffering from PTSD, or has experienced some kind of trauma with you, and they are not able to let go of the trauma when you want nothing more than to have it be a non-constant in your lives?
This is where I term the psychological phenomenon PMSD (Present Moment Stress Disorder).
What is it exactly?
It's when a traumatic experience is no longer affecting a person in a negative way. Having come to terms with a lack of importance to the associated memory, and a person in close proximately who's suffering from PTSD keeps the other firmly grounded in the trauma.
Hence "Present Moment Stress".
This might not be exactly a disorder, but I'm afraid if I just label it PMS, the meaning could get confused a bit.
This could be specific to a shared trauma, or just someone who suffers greatly from past trauma and it's rubbing off on another person in a negative way.
I've experienced traumas with people where I am able to let go, and they are not, and it creates this PMSD experience for me.
This is more a close association phenomenon. I would rather call it a phenomenon than a disorder in some regards, because removing oneself from the environment, or proximity from the other person will magically make this stress go away, because it's an imposed stress from another, and not a natural stress from within.
Could this stress exist in this capacity with someone who's not in close proximity?
I suppose it could, depending on the level of influence or space this person maintains in one's head.
Let's use Hive as an example!
If anyone has issues with another person on Hive (and these things definitely happen, we all know!) a couple of different things could occur. Flag wars, trolling, behind the back talking trash, ignoring of one another, and that's pretty much the extent of it in most cases.
Let's say you and your Hive enemy just decide to say "screw this person I'll just not talk to him/her anymore."
This is sort of a close but relatively far approximation of shared space. If you don't secretly visit each others blogs (reserving space in that noggin) to see what they are up to, and never comment on each others posts, then I can't see how PMSD could really occur. If it does, you definitely are suffering from an inability to let go of things, in my opinion, and this is where it might be classified as more of a disorder, and maybe just straight up PTSD.
To me PMSD is something that can only be imposed by not being able to get away from another persons direct influence into your life. Making one feel trapped, imprisoned by their inability to let go, and worse if inflicted forcefully onto another.
It can create immense anger, fear, depression or anxiety from a feeling of victimization and make tensions even worse between people.
It can be an experience where people are in an enemy life state, or it can be someone you live with who is still bound by a trauma they cannot release themselves from, and therefor you become a direct sponge to their trauma, having to constantly hear about it and try to help them cope with it, even if you do not wish to be burdened with it. Your help may fall on deaf ears if they are unable to take any of your advice. Oftentimes a person stuck in perpetual trauma will see themselves as a victim and become blinded to how they are rubbing off their stress onto another.
PMSD can take many shapes in this regard, but how does one deal with PMSD?
I think it depends on the level of direct contact one has with the person creating the PMSD.
If you're neighbors with someone who cannot let go of a shared trauma, then I believe searching for a peaceful resolve (oftentimes not going to happen if that are trapped in a PTSD state) and then commitment to not let it consume you is about the only way. Practicing some mindfulness grounding techniques perhaps.
Otherwise we are actually being affected by more of a PTSD state, wherein the PMSD affected is more likely stricken with a form of PTSD.
It's a fine line between the two. One must be able to recognize if they themselves are stuck in a traumatic memory loop, or are being affected by someone else's PTSD.
If you are reading this, it's the first time you've ever read about PMSD, because it exists nowhere in psychology currently as far as I know, unless labelled under a different terminology, but I'm taking credit for the discovery of this psychology term unless it can be proven to me that it was thought up by someone else at an earlier date, or termed as something else at an earlier date. My publication on the Hive blockchain is proof of the inception of this psychology term.
Does anyone relate with PMSD? Ever feel like you've had someone's traumas forced onto you, causing a stressful state that you just can't figure out a great way to deal with?
If so, let that comment section light up with thoughts. I would really love to read what people think of this, and if you disagree with it, please say so, I'm always open for debate!
Your time is a valuable commodity, and I very much appreciate all of the great comments and support from you amazing people on the Hive blockchain, and I do my best to respond to everyone.
Thanks for stopping by, have a great day! -