Can You Survive PTSD?

Everyone has some level of PTSD just from what happened growing up and from every single trauma you have been exposed to in your lives. So, Everyone now alive is surviving SOME form of mild or severe PTSD. This is a good place to start.

I think the problem becomes when something severe happens to a person like a traffic accident, losing a loved one, an operation in a hospital and the person cannot adapt to that. Or maybe it's seeing someone murdered or dying horribly.

This might also be helpful in all this:

my Father and his sister and their father for example, would NEVER have asked the question "Am I crazy?" because this is something people just didn't ask themselves much before 1950. Why?

Because if people were crazy often they were just killed that's why.

If you were crazy often you were just done away with. So, even if you were crazy you had to learn to act like you were okay in order to survive in life.

For example, the pioneers of the west either survived or they didn't. Those who survived owned property or had jobs. Those who didn't survive didn't survive. So, it really was never about "What kind of BS have you already survived?" It was that people would say, "I survived and I'm here and the rest are dead."

But, usually the question wouldn't have been to them, "Well. Are you alive because you killed them?"

Because in the old days without much law around almost anything can and did happen. And in some places it still does.

So, the important thing here likely is not "Can you Survive PTSD?" But rather "Are you adaptable enough to evolve into someone who can cope with what you have been through? Because you are no longer who you were before you had to go through all that. That's for sure!"

So, if you demand of yourself that you be EXACTLY the same person you were before your trauma or traumas then you are going to fail.

But, if you allow yourselves to change and to adapt and to become whoever you need to be to survive your traumas you might just be okay.

So, the answer to this question is:
"Yes! If you are adaptable enough and willing to change enough to survive what you have been through."

In other words: "How much do you want to survive?"