Can skydiving cause traumatic stress?

[FallingDuck 0]

The only way skydiving could cause PTSD would be if someone was thrown out against their will. If it was the first jump you might be a little scared, but you shouldn't be traumatized by it.

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Oh, the stories I could tell.....


Shake it off, and go on.

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The only way skydiving could cause PTSD would be if someone was thrown out against their will. If it was the first jump you might be a little scared, but you shouldn't be traumatized by it.

Who shouldn't, people respond differently to different stressors, what I take in my stride quite comfortably may cause someone else servere anxiety.
With something so uniquie as skydiving many people would not be aware of exactly how they will respond until they are confronted with the situation.

There's not a whole lot that scares or frightens me a great deal, but that's just me, many many people have real fears and phobias that can paralyse them.
It's not my place to judge wether they are valid for them or not. To do so woould make me a pekerhead

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[peckerhead 0]

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You're my new hero when i meet can i have your autograph

[udder 0]

Who doesnt want to be bum muffed?

"In one way or the other, I'm a bad brother. Word to the motherf**ker." Eazy-E

[PWScottIV 0]

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Try cutting away at 1800'. Pulling your reserve at 1700' and having nothing happen. Throw the ripcord away to make sure it's pulled, roll on your back to clear the pilot chute hesitation and see nothing but blue sky. Roll back face to earth. Think, "Reserve total, I guess I'm dead." Have all emotion turn off. See that your going to hit in a house size brush pile and think, as you last thought, "I'll go right to the bottom, I wonder how long it will take them to find me?" Get opening shock at 300' at terminal. Think "I'm alive?" Look down and see power lines coming up and think "I'm going to die!". Have just enough time to turn your round reserve and land in the same brush pile you were going to hit in freefall.

Later think, I did everthing right and still almost died.

PTSD? Close, certainly screwed me up for awhile. Jumped 2 weeks later. Was afraid about being afraid, but wasn't. Have made 2500 jumps since then 26 years ago.

Crap! I think you just gave ME PTSD.

Gravity Waits for No One.

[chrismgtis 0]

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Well, boo fucking hoo!

Skydiving aint for everybody.

Tough love bubba!

Well, that is definately the attitude we need to get more people into this sport!

lol jk, just don't say that to students k? :P

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Jumped: Twin Otter, Cessna 182, CASA, Helicopter, Caravan

[Jinxie 0]

I definitely have to agree with you on this one....different people, different situations (or same) different reactions

Minds are like parachutes -- they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar

[kkeenan 13]

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...the trigger event must be "of exceptionally threatening or catastrophic nature, which is likely to cause pervasive distress in almost anyone". DSM-IV uses "the person experienced, witnessed, or was confronted with an event or events that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others and the person's response involved intense fear, helplessness, or horror".

I can think of several notable CRW jumps that meet these criteria. But I guess if you're in it for the danger and horror, then that's just a bonus when it actually happens.

Kevin

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[billvon 2,427]

>Well, that is definately the attitude we need to get more people into this sport!

I think it's the attitude we need to keep people like Lutz and Shayna _out_ of the sport. It ain't for everyone, and keeping unfit people (or people liable to PTSD when they get scared) out is a good thing.

[Rick 67]

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But I guess if you're in it for the danger and horror, then that's just a bonus when it actually happens.

Kevin

quote of the day right there folks

You can't be drunk all day if you don't start early!

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