Emotional Stress Disorder

What can be more stressful than emotional crosses? This can be almost anything, a bad childhood, an abusive relationship, a horrible time at school, or even a series of bad romantic experiences. All of these events can adversely affect someone, and what they do as a result can impact negatively on their lives and on the lives of others.

PTSD is short for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and is usually attributed to military personnel. It’s become quite a popular term nowadays, especially in the USA where soldiers, after serving tours of duty and experiencing the horrors of war, return home and freak out, get depressed and often commit their own horrors as they shoot up people and places.

The research says: Signs of PTSD can range from flashbacks to nightmares, panic attacks, to eating disorders and cognitive delays to lowered verbal memory capacity. Many trauma survivors also encounter substance abuse issues as they attempt to self medicate.

It’s not only war veterans who suffer from this malady, but regular people who experience emotional turmoil too. They shoot up the place, create mayhem, have severe mood swings and are suicidal.

Some women who experienced physical abuse in a prior relationship will often miss the battering and brutality, as they saw it as the norm. They may now wonder how come their current spouse doesn’t enjoy the thrill of conflict. “Cho, this man too calm and soff, I need a little excitement in my life, likkle cussing, likkle screaming, war.”

For this very same reason, some soldiers keep re-enlisting, going back to the battlefield, as they cannot cope with civilian life that they find so boring. So it is with regular people too, as they seek out the very same conflict that they suffered from for years.

Men suffer from this too and will usually seek out the same type of woman that made their lives a living hell. “How come he always end up with women who always cuss and create crosses?” “He’s suffering from Emotional PTSD and miss the conflict and excitement.”

Many husbands exhibit the symptoms of Emotional PTSD, as they walk and talk about how their wives treat them and also turn to substance abuse to self medicate their condition.

Many men are notorious for drowning their sorrows in alcohol as they suffer from Emotional PTSD and don’t even know it.

Back to the females who suffer from Emotional PTSD, who at times will accuse their current man of having no guts, no backbone, just because he refuses to go to battle with her. “Say sumpting, do sumpting, don’t just sit there and remain calm like you’re made of ice, I dare you to hit me.”

There are those who suffered severely from past relationships, yet refuse to get involved with or marry a man who appears to be too calm and accommodating. “I know that my ex used to beat me, but at least I know that he cared, and I miss that feeling.”

There are men who also miss the thrill of being cheated on. As bizarre as it may sound, it does happen, as those men spent their entire lives tracking, pursuing, trailing, snooping on their wives.

But back to those women who constantly return to the scene of the conflict. Some of them claim to be victims, but actually continue to have a long term relationship with the man. Were some of these women drawn to the emotional excitement?

Emotional PTSD is real, and many are suffering from it without even knowing that they are. Do you exhibit these symptoms, mood swings, sudden outbursts of anger, excessive drinking, suicidal thoughts, resentment of the opposite sex? Then maybe you are a victim of Emotional Stress. 

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