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Many individuals with PTSD battle to comprehend why they fly off the handle at such small matters, i.e., the toilet roll is around the wrong way, someone walked in front of you, that stranger looked at you, etc etc. The reason is actually quite easy, and simpler to demonstrate than commonly explain more readily those with PTSD tend to get mad quicker, and more rapid than others at small the PTSD cup dumb things.

I want to clarify this, and you'll better understand the difference to those with PTSD, and people without.

Whether you realise it or not believe it, everybody has this thing called "good stress" in their life, which consists of such things as getting out of bed, day to day tasks, going to work, cooking dinner, etc etc. No issues with that one.

The apparent, when something goes wrong, or is really hindering you, is generally classified as "bad stress", which consists such things as paying invoices, money, relationships, getting fired from your own job, etc etc etc. Everybody gets awful stress at some stage within their day; it just depends on the sum, along with the person themself.

Now, as you are able to observe, Cup 2 represents a PTSD stressors represented standard person, and with both good and bad anxiety. They still have plenty of room in their own cup without overflowing (exploding, fury, anger, etc etc). Before being shoved on the edge a regular individual can take a great deal of anxiety in their daily life.

Now whilst we still have both nice and bad stress, there's now this thing called "PTSD" in our cup. The problem with that is that we possess the exact same amount of good and poor pressure as everyone else, though we also have this huge chunk of PTSD which includes our injuries and more.

As you can see from this cup, with great pressure and PTSD, you truly do not have much room for anything else. You are able to see by the "bad stress" representation at the top of the cup, it really is relatively modest when compared with Cup 2 - therefore this can be why something so little and unimportant can make someone with PTSD fly off the handle so rapidly (fury). A little "bad stress" for a person with PTSD, plus they overflow quite fast compared to anyone else.