You mentioned a therapist- have you found therapy helpful?
There's obviously some stuff I can't talk about in therapy because I fear I'd end up getting admitted to an inpatient ward under suspicion of psychosis or something which I really can't be having right now, but I think it's been helpful for other stuff?
We mostly talk about my childhood honestly. Like my birth mother even if I don't really remember her, growing up being adopted, all the bullying in my school life. Unsurprisingly being left alone for as long as I was before my dad found me is probably the main crux of most of my issues apparently? She says I meet a lot of the criteria for a PTSD diagnosis but we haven't gotten that far yet
It doesn't really change how I feel about people or what happened, but just talking through it and understanding how it's affected me and shaped me as a person is helpful in itself I suppose
We're working on different coping mechanisms for when I get overwhelmed and distressed but it's difficult to find something that works with my dumb crow brain
Oh boy, she's gonna have a field day with recent events.....