Question of the Day: Is PTSD A Soul Wound?

[MicheleR]

Some people call PTSD a "soul wound" -- I agree because this experience cuts you deep in the part of you that exists beyond words.

Do you agree or disagree?

[Hidden]

Hi Michele

I agree. I also feel like my spirit is wounded and broken!

[aujoymyjoy]

Agree

to me the soul is where all the emotional, physical, mental, sexual, spiritual aspects of a person are one, instead of separate. so to damage one effects all. I see humans as much more 5D than 3D.

[Hidden]

I totally agree, but they can and do heal. I guess I am feeling all of the lumpy, bumpy scars both physical and psychic today. Some parts are more raw than others, some barely have gotten covered by those first skins yet. If I can survive them, I'll be better for it- even though it doesn't feel that way right now necessarily.

[Katalina]

Agree - we are a total sum of our experiences - thus all humans are both a physical being & mental being & impossible to disconnect - except in death - when ones soul leaves the vessel God created for us to travel through life here on earth in.

[GeminiDancer Major Contributor]

I couldn't agree more! Calling it a soul wound is the only way I feel captures the depth of this pain and damage. Dawn Clark uses the term "core fracture" which sounds more mechanical but also helps describes it. PTSD goes to the core of our very being. It shakes and alters our identity. It makes us question what our identity was before and after the trauma; or in my case what my identity could have been had I ever been given the chance to develop one of my own. I've often felt child sex abuse is the murder of a soul. I often question myself and what my soul may have been without all the abuse. My soul feels deeply wounded if not irrevocably altered.

[Uma413]

I also agree- I recently wrote a post entitled- "Terror in her Heart and in her Bones"-which sums it up for me... bedroomtotheboardroom.com/2...

[KTRANSC]

yes, PTSD is a "soul wound", that cannot really find complete closure through any kind of therapy ie as such irreversible.Yet a lot can be done to enhance level of functioning, and improve life quality.

Regards,Kirsten(KTRANSC).

[KL71]

YES!!! A resounding YES!!! I believe, if it were not so deep...it could heal, but since it is SO deep inside, it takes layers of healing work. I see/become aware of one area,( ie. physical abuse by husbands/boyfriends) and I do work on that, which uncovers another layer(passive-aggressiveness in me) and do work on that. I just feel like such a battered, broken soul, starting with multiple abuses at age3, by mother, through physical abuses by men , then multiple times of sexual abuse by mostly men, but also a female (babysitter), emotional abuse, right through to this last year. Don't get me wrong, please, I haven't had a life full of constant abuses, there were periods of Good...really....but only in this last few years have I realized, something is MAJORLY wrong, inside, for some reason, I'm not "bouncing back" like I thought I used to do. Very DEEP wounds...to the CORE...IN the SOUL. I am still here, I am still open to learning and trying, I sometimes think I have given up, but, something inside me WANTS to LIVE!!! <3

[Hidden]

I dont know but I do know I have something missing Perhaps I did something really bad in a past life perhaps even in this life that could explain my memory loss ? I dont really want to think about past times as when I try hard to remember I get some horrible dreams! perhaps they are flash backs I dont know ? I alays wake at the same bit of my dream/nightmare/flashback so I think of good things when I am tired !

[Dogmom]

100% agree.....ptsd turns the soul mind and body upside down and inside out. Maybe the only real healing comes from a source beyond what human minds can envision.... Perhaps if the soul can be healed all else will follow.