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CDD SAFE HAVEN

This is a space for CDD systems and plurals (I tend to use system language, though I'll use your language where I see it!), regardless of stance or syscourse.

In fact, we're not going to talk about syscourse at all!

This will be a space to ask questions about CDDs, share memes and posts, and talk about trauma, recovery, and therapy.

There is no DNI.

If you have a CDD, or are questioning, you're welcome here.

If you're interested in learning about CDDs, you're welcome here.

If you want to spread positivity and kindness, you're welcome here.

If you just like memes, well, shocking, you're also welcome here.

Let's create a community that we can all be proud of, with a strong focus on CDD education!

Send in:

Vents

Stories, positive or negative

Helpful techniques that you've learned

Ask for help or opinions

Jokes (we love jokes, the cornier the better)

I look forward to getting to know everyone!

(Unfortunately, I will not be able to keep track of sign offs, though you're welcome to use them)

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You are doing your best. It is fair to be exhausted. Take care of yourself.

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Is it possible to “beat” mental illness? Or does it depend on type/circumstance?

“Beating” mental illness is actually the norm, not the exception. Most people who have a major depressive episode never have another one. 80% of people who survive their first suicide attempt never make a second attempt. 93% of Borderline Personality Disorder patients achieve remission. Up to 74% of people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder achieve significant clinical improvement in their symptoms, and 20% achieve full remission. Half of Generalized Anxiety Disorder patients achieve remission after the acute phase of treatment. Even disorders with relatively low rates of remission - bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoid personality disorder - generally become milder and easier to manage as you age. Psychiatric symptoms tend to peak in your 20s and generally drop off as you get older, especially if you seek treatment.

This is why the narratives we use to talk about mental illness matter so much. Right now, the dominant narrative is that mental illness is “an imbalance in the brain” and that it’s largely something that people are born with. There are upsides and downsides to this. The upside is that it promotes the idea that mental illness is not the ill person’s fault, and it helps us understand that mental illness can impact anyone, regardless of their life circumstances. The downside, however, is that it’s sort of given us this idea that mental illness is inborn and unchangeable. People have taken on the idea that “that’s just how my brain is”, when the reality is that, for most people, mental illness is less of a stable trait for them, and more of just a shitty thing that they are going through for a little while. The idea that mental illness is just “in your brain” also erases the very real connection between your life circumstances and your mental health - while it’s very true that a wealthy person in a happy marriage can become depressed, it’s also very true that living in poor conditions and being in an abusive marriage can be the cause of depression, and that improving your life circumstances can lessen or eliminate mental health conditions.

If you have a mental health condition, it’s very important that you not resign yourself to the idea that you’re going to be like this forever. Chances are, you won’t. Even if you have a mental health condition that is associated with low rates of remission, it is possible to make leaps and bounds in your functioning, and to get to a point where managing your condition becomes second nature to you. Our understanding of mental illness is improving every year, and new therapies and treatments are becoming available all the time. If you seek treatment and do your best to manage your condition, you have every reason to believe that you will make huge improvements.

Hope this answers your question!

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trauma so bad my coping mechanisms have names and pronouns

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Information Sorter Directory

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Scientists have found that if you get 8 hours of sleep and are still tired during the day it’s because your soul is cursed and your body doesn’t think you deserve happiness. There is no cure or treatment

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Reblog this to sprinkle some love on prev!

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If you spend your formative years being relentlessly bullied by your family for being "too sensitive" (read: having the normal emotions of a child), one thing you might start to do is repress every emotion you possibly can and excise the rest.

Only, those excised emotions aren't gone, they just get bundled into your subconscious mind. They live just beneath the surface of you, waiting for something (a trigger) to cause enough of a crack for them to pour out.

You can be consciously aware that the emotions you're feeling are unreasonable in response to the actual trigger. But leaning into that ("Stop being ridiculous, you're overreacting!") only leads to more repression, more buildup, more explosions.

This is why I'm repeating over and over to myself today, "You are not too sensitive, you are just having emotions. You are allowed to feel emotions."

Stuff I needed to hear way back when, I can tell myself now. The trick is getting myself to believe it.

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(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ

Maybe they didn’t ‘force’ you.

But when you said no, they were in a mood, made you feel guilty or otherwise punished you for it.

That’s still not okay.

Consent isn’t just about whether someone stops. It’s about whether you were free to say no without fear of guilt, withdrawal, anger, or emotional consequences.

If someone makes you feel bad every time you set a boundary, your body learns that “no” isn’t safe.

And yes, that can be traumatic.

You’re not being dramatic for carrying pain from that.