Growing up in the hood and PTSD

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I think I have some form of this.


Reason I say so is the random dreams/nightmares I continue to have close to 30 years later. Maybe people have these type of dreams and I’m just tripping? So I just woke up to one, basically I’m in my moms neighborhood and I’m driving with my brothers. I’m making a u-turn in a intersection in the hood right after passing my moms house(I never do this in real life but in my dream I’m doing it) right after I do it another car does the same thing and it triggers in my mind that he’s following me. It speeds up next to use and it starts to fire at us, of course I immediately wake up right after.


I don’t have these dreams every day or have any ptsd problems in my waking hours, it’s just these dreams that I have randomly. I can go a year without one but then have multiple in a month or a year. Again maybe this is what normal people dream too and I’m just tripping?. But I think this might be from experiencing things as a kid, there’s 2 stories that stick out to me when I was a kid that REALLY shook me. I was about 8 years old and I’m with my bro in the room watching Dinosaur show and all of a sudden I hear a bunch of gun shots that feel like it’s right outside my window, hearing gunshots at night was a normal thing but not this close. So we jump up and race to the living room and we can hear my sister in her room talking about it so we go over there. From her window we see a car that’s getting shot at and we see some woman running from it. These woman run towards our house and try to open our door but the door was locked so they jumped in our flower bed right next to the door. All I could think about as a shorty was they were going to shoot at the house in trying to shoot the woman, I end up hitting the floor and remember the cops coming later that night. I think my sister called the cops. Following this I can remember sleeping on the floor for many nights being worried that the house was going to get shot.... The other incident I was about 9 or ten and I walking home from school, I stop at a intersection waiting for the car to pass through when all of a sudden he pulls out a gun right in front of me( I was like ten feet away) and he lets the thang ring out in the air.:what: :why: I can still remember exactly how the gun looked, it was a silver revolver, big gun.

Ever since that when I would walk him from school I would look around my surroundings and make sure everything was good and then start running down the block before I could scan the area agian, or try to walk with a friend. It’s as if I was walking through the jungles of Vietnam.



Is this normal?
 
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You may have some sort of PTSD and I'd shell out for a couple of sessions with a psychologist just for your overall well being. I lived in a bad neighborhood for a brief period of time where somebody was shooting down the street at night several times per week. Even when I got out of that environment any loud noise remotely close to a gunshot had me paranoid.
 

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This is a very real thing. I grew up in a couple bad neighborhoods until I was in my late teens.

Till today, I'm in my mid 30s, I will have random dreams of all the demonic shyt that used to take place.

I wake up in cold sweat and start thanking God 🙏🏾 my parents saved up their coins to get us the fukk out of there.
 
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This is a very real thing. I grew up in a couple bad neighborhoods until I was in my late teens.

Till today, I'm in my mid 30s, I will have random dreams of all the demonic shyt that used to take place.

I wake up in cold sweat and start thanking God 🙏🏾 my parents saved up their coins to get us the fukk out of there.
Glad u made it out :wow:
 

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If you have the resources, should definitely seek professional help. Unfortunately, your experiences are common for people who grew up in high crime areas. Not normal, but common. I cringe when dudes who grew up in those settings claim that " 'I'm glad I grew up that way, it made me the man that I am" or "wouldn't have traded it for growing up anywhere else" I call bullshyt on that.
We saw, heard, and experienced things that we were not supposed to. We don't think about just how wild those things were because others we grew up with had common experiences. You can build resilience from growing up in tough conditions, but kids shouldn't have to grow up that way.


Mention here all the time that the criminal element ruins everything they touch or in proximity to, including neighborhoods., They need to be put away and removed from society so that the regular people can live.


*Also, have to ask,....how do you reconcile your trauma with the term you chose as a username, "Gs Up" ?
 
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If you have the resources, should definitely seek professional help. Unfortunately, your experiences are common for people who grew up in high crime areas. Not normal, but common. I cringe when dudes who grew up in those settings claim that " 'I'm glad I grew up that way, it made me the man that I am" or "wouldn't have traded it for growing up anywhere else" I call bullshyt on that.
We saw, heard, and experienced things that we were not supposed to. We don't think about just how wild those things were because others we grew up with had common experiences. You can build resilience from growing up in tough conditions, but kids shouldn't have to grow up that way.


Mention here all the time that the criminal element ruins everything they touch or in proximity to, including neighborhoods., They need to be put away and removed from society so that the regular people can live.


*Also, have to ask,....how do you reconcile your trauma with the term you chose as a username, "Gs Up" ?
I’ve gone to therapy before but for other things that were going on with my life at that time, I only went for a couple of sessions. I have recently booked some appointments for therapy but it’s for work related stress but I keep canceling… I just really picked the wrong career for what I’ve been through tbh. I picked my name because I grew up a big snoop dogg fan, I don’t live in the hood anymore though, idk if I stated that in the op. I bought a brand new build in a really nice area but my brother still lives there but he loves it there lol. My parents retired and moved out of state to live close to their family so it’s just my brother who lives in that house. I was just there the other day and there building a new community college near by and a high speed train not to far away and low key I honestly feel like I wish the neighborhood gets gentrified. I just don’t want other people going through that anguish.
 

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Free therapy is what it is.:yeshrug:

"Post reply" is cheaper than a therapist session.

You on a fast track to mental health crisis if you use the coli as a therapist

And not necessarily this thread, but on God it’s a infatuation with all things hood and street nikkas on here.

I’m from the south side of Chicago. The rest of my fam from inner city St.Louis. I done seen it all and from an early age. shyt kids wasn’t even supposed to see. I’ve almost had my life took on 2 occasions, guns to my head, all kind of shyt. I’m not trying to downplay no one else experience, cause I know what ptsd is, but y’all so damn dramatic on here. Like if you grow up in the inner city you gonna be mentally in shambles or some shyt. Y’all be ODing
 
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I dont have nightmares or shyt like
that but black men live in a perpetual
state of PTSD.
Imagine having to hit a switch
in your brain when you leave the crib
that put you on alert for cops
and people that look just like you.
we are living in a country and system
that is hostile to us after our first breath.
Crackas do not know that feeling.
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I don’t have nightmares. What i saw and did just made me a bit cold in some regards.
 
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