Genuinely curious

Yep! Goady and sneery. From the thread title it was obviously going to be so before I opened it.

I have asd, anxiety and depression. I grew up in an abusive household, married an abusive man. So yes I have trauma

I'm with you on this ... 🤔

I am medically diagnosed with anxiety and with dissociative disorder.

These diagnoses were given by my gp following some severe mental health issues.

I take anti anxiety medication.

The dissociative disorder is a response to childhood trauma.

I have elements of trauma and anxiety but not diagnosed, I do not discuss with anyone and I just get on with life really. It doesn't affect my every day life in terms of "I can't leave the house today" but does affect me in smaller ways (again, that other people would be unaware of).

I think everyone has past events that affect them (even if you can't remember the specific event), especially where you've pushed it down and tried to just "get over it". And certain triggers will activate the feelings but most of us will just tell ourselves that our anger was justified or that we are just feeling hormonally weepy today or whatever.

I'm glad things are more talked about now. Up until age 5 I had a reasonable childhood. Then my sister was born and my mum seemingly changed overnight. Clearly she had PND, I see that now as an adult. But she never got proper treatment for it or properly recovered. I suspect she's also ND in some way, which didn't help. It affected our whole childhood.

Things might have been very different if she'd been able to talk about it. Even just online.

I am medically diagnosed with it. I don't just "believe" that I have it!

People don’t tend to be on online forums stating that they don’t feel anxious, or suffer from trauma, so of course it is more likely online that you encounter those who do.

Yes I've had trauma. I've had to deliver two sleeping babies and almost died in the process. I've had counseling where the counselor said she believed I had PTSD but wasn't qualified to formally diagnose it herself. Many things can trigger a response in me.

think I would be classed as having experience trauma - my ACE score is 7. Its not something that has ever been diagnosed as such although having been in care/adopted it has been documented.
I do suffer from anxiety as an adult which I can link back to childhood events. I often wake in the night with panic attacks and I get extreme anxiety about something awful happening to my kids. I try and control it as much as I can.

But I am also of the opinion that every has had some sort of 'trauma' in thier life and that most of us just get on with it (whilst hiding our anxiety and dark thoughts).

thje reason is appears to be more prevalent is that it is more acceptable to talk about it, we also understand more the effects that certain events have on our psyche. 50 years ago people were depressed/anxious etc but they had to pretend everything was ok or they would get carted off to the looney bin.

I have been through trauma in childhood but it doesn't affect my day to day live. It affects how I view men and relationships, but I don't have any mental health issues - no anxiety or depression or anything like that.

I've got PTSD from being trafficked. But I hide it well and I haven't got anxiety.

I have things that make me anxious.

I have experienced things that I found traumatic at the time and on at least one occasion afterwards as well.

But I don’t have either “trauma” or “anxiety” no.

I have been through traumatic events in my life (haven't we all?), but they have not done harm to me. I have had a single period of a few years where a traumatic event left me with clinical depression and a significant MH problem which impacted my life hugely (and still lingers). During that period certain things did trigger a physiological response which was scary. It's behind me now. My emotional and physical response could be explained, albeit I needed a great deal of help to get through it.

I'm quite highly strung I would say, which does cause me to be over anxious at times, but I don't suffer with anxiety as such, it just manifests itself in a very uncomfortable way during period of stress. It's just how I am.

Not answering as your OP sounds very dismissive and sneery.

No neither. Of course I sometimes feel anxious, but not in a misplaced sort of situation if that makes sense? I feel sorry for people who have anxiety as it sounds like it stops them doing or enjoying a lot of normal things and takes up so much time and head space. It must be awful to live with.

I've also never experienced real trauma. Unpleasant and upsetting experiences, and grief etc, but nothing that has gone on to shape my life or character in an extreme way.

Can't vote but the answer is 'no'.

My favourite thing about these type of 'Nowadays everyone and their cat has trauma/anxiety/divergence of a sort/mental health XYZ' posts is that rather than see it for what it ostensibly means in the whole, in other words people placing a lot more importance on the wellbeing of their mind, it harks back to a time in which people didn't really suffer from these so-called ailments. Weirdly though, that time never actually existed. I like that rather than look at ways to improve the way we live, we'd rather giggle at the non-sense of it. Whether you were aware of it or not the esteemed 'stiff upper lip' wrecked countless lives for reasons nobody seems know.

Who needs a government to give a toss about mental health care provision when we can all just laugh at the silliness of such new-fangled words.

Yes to both, I'm in my fifties and have had anxiety my whole life, from being quite small, so it's not a new thing for me. It's probably genetic (anxiety) and my children and a couple of nieces and nephews have it too.
My gran was described as being bad with her nerves, which was probably undiagnosed anxiety, but she didn't have to work, didn't drive, and couldn't leave my controlling grandad, as it wasn't done in those days. I believe people suffered in silence then.
With each generation it passes to more people.

Trauma, PTSD, OCD, ADHD/ADD, anxiety, depression etc all intertwined with 'my truth', 'lived experience' etc, which is why I think a lot of times these disorders, as genuine as they are, tend to be over-diagnosed either because doctors don't have the money or time to investigate what's actually going on or the patient wants to have a label.

I have anxiety and obsessive compulsive issues, ie making sure light switches are in the 'off' position several times, and I'm talking up to 50 times, before going to bed at night, even though I can clearly see the light is off. This is the same with checking that doors are locked or shut I can sometimes spend up to 5 minutes checking that I've set my alarm clock correctly, again, even though I know I would go back and set it correctly if it's wrong.

I have depression because I grew up in abject poverty and lived with my mother who is brain-damaged, for 23 years. And during that time I was also sexually assaulted by a neighbour. I feel like life is quite a pointless endeavour most days. I know it's not, it just feels that way to me.

Nothing of what I've stated above has ever officially been diagnosed. I just assume I have those things because it's easier and I'm far too lazy to see my GP about it.

So, YANBU. I think? I don't really know, I lost track.

I dont have anxiety. I feel grateful. I hope I don't develop it. Lots of my famiky have it and it's crippling.

I have had traumatic things happen like everyone but they don't impact my day to day life. I don't have ptsd, but my son does. Sometimes something will make me remember the event and it will very raw and upsetting like it just happened, but, luckily, for me it doesn't last long.

I have ACE trauma, plus other severe traumas from teenage life/growing up. Diagnosis of anxiety and complex ptsd. This thread really doesn't read as very pleasant, but perhaps that's because my answer is yes to both.

ACE trauma - adverse childhood experiences.

All information from a counsellor. Had never heard of ACE or CPTSD before.

No. And we must have very different circles because I don't know anyone who suffers from either of those.

I have neither.

Yeah, bad things have happened to me but nothing that isn’t a normal part of life, and it’s many sadnesses and disappointments. Just got to keep on going!

Others aren’t so lucky.