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TW: Trauma talk
My therapist told me something in our last session that I already knew; my trauma is complex and cumulative.
Bc of this I figure that any one thing I experienced as a kid wasn't inherently traumatic, but all of it combined was.
But I also realised that I
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My therapist told me something in our last session that I already knew; my trauma is complex and cumulative.
Bc of this I figure that any one thing I experienced as a kid wasn't inherently traumatic, but all of it combined was.
But I also realised that I
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TW: Trauma talk
haven't stopped accumulating. Any small thing I experience now can not only trigger the trauma, but ADD to it. As a child I developed a social phobia that various alters still struggle with. But I wasn't entirely scared that people would hurt
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haven't stopped accumulating. Any small thing I experience now can not only trigger the trauma, but ADD to it. As a child I developed a social phobia that various alters still struggle with. But I wasn't entirely scared that people would hurt
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TW: Trauma talk
me - that was obviously part of it, but I was also scared of people who were really nice. What I was scared of was a social faux pas; an embarrassing moment, because since I already had undx'd C-PTSD, I knew it wouldn't be something that I could just
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me - that was obviously part of it, but I was also scared of people who were really nice. What I was scared of was a social faux pas; an embarrassing moment, because since I already had undx'd C-PTSD, I knew it wouldn't be something that I could just
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TW: Trauma talk
laugh off and forget about. I knew that absolutely ANY slip up, no matter how minor, even things that were ONLY interpreted by ME as a slip up, would TORMENT me for YEARS. It would add to these symptoms that I now understand to be C-PTSD. A big chunk of my
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laugh off and forget about. I knew that absolutely ANY slip up, no matter how minor, even things that were ONLY interpreted by ME as a slip up, would TORMENT me for YEARS. It would add to these symptoms that I now understand to be C-PTSD. A big chunk of my
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TW: Trauma talk
social phobia actually stemmed not from other people, but from MYSELF. From my own MIND. Because even if I knew that other people wouldn't hurt me, MY BRAIN WOULD.
Well-meaning people laugh at my embarrassing moments because they laugh at their own,
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social phobia actually stemmed not from other people, but from MYSELF. From my own MIND. Because even if I knew that other people wouldn't hurt me, MY BRAIN WOULD.
Well-meaning people laugh at my embarrassing moments because they laugh at their own,
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TW: Trauma talk
but I can't laugh, no matter how many years ago they occurred. The memories of them are absolutely EXCRUCIATING. Because in childhood, I endured so much humiliation so often that my little brain actually couldn't handle it, so I developed traumatised.
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but I can't laugh, no matter how many years ago they occurred. The memories of them are absolutely EXCRUCIATING. Because in childhood, I endured so much humiliation so often that my little brain actually couldn't handle it, so I developed traumatised.
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TW: Trauma talk
I don't have the ability to process embarrassment in the same way that other people do because the entire emotion is a trigger and experiencing that trigger is in and of itself traumatic.
This is a really interesting thing I've realised about myself and
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I don't have the ability to process embarrassment in the same way that other people do because the entire emotion is a trigger and experiencing that trigger is in and of itself traumatic.
This is a really interesting thing I've realised about myself and
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TW: Trauma talk
I figured I would share it because I feel like quite a few of my followers could relate. It's something I've been aware of for years but didn't have the vocab or insight to express it and properly understand it.
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I figured I would share it because I feel like quite a few of my followers could relate. It's something I've been aware of for years but didn't have the vocab or insight to express it and properly understand it.
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