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A lot of people with PTSD struggle to comprehend why they fly off the handle at such little 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 really quite easy, and easier to demonstrate than often explain, why more easily those with PTSD have a tendency to get angry quicker, and faster than others at little dumb things.

I want to explain this, and you will better comprehend the difference to those with PTSD, and those without.

No problems with that one.

The obvious, when something bad happens, or is really hindering you, is typically classified as "bad stress", which consists such matters as paying bills, cash, relationships, getting fired from your job, etc etc etc. Poor stress is got by everybody at some period within their day; it merely depends upon the sum, as well as the individual themself.

Now, as you can view, Cup 2 represents an individual that is normal, and with both bad and good anxiety. They still have a lot of room inside their cup without overflowing (exploding, fury, anger, etc etc). An ordinary person can take a great deal of anxiety in their daily life, before being shoved on the border.

Now whilst we still have both positive and negative stress, there is now this thing called "PTSD" in our cup. The problem with that is that we still have exactly the same number of good and poor pressure as everyone else, though we also have this huge chunk of PTSD stressors represented PTSD which features more and our traumas.

As you can see from this cup, with great anxiety and PTSD, you really do not have much room for anything else. It's possible for you to observe by the "bad stress" representation at the top of the cup, it really is quite small when compared with Cup 2 - thus this can be why something so small and unimportant can make someone with PTSD fly off the handle so quickly (wrath). A little "bad stress" to get someone with PTSD, plus they overflow rather fast compared to anyone else.