PTSD Confessions

Hello! This a community to help those who suffer from, are around, or are interested in PTSD. If you have any questions feel free to come and talk to me. This blog is not trigger free, so please be careful! Stay strong x

[thepowerwithin]

More for you here, my friend

[sweetschizo-deactivated20190808]

Less: “You can do anything you put your mind to.” More: “It’s okay and completely understandable if you’re struggling to do the things you want and need to due to your diagnosis and it isn’t your fault if some things are hard or impossible right now.”

Less: “You’re limitless.” More: “Everybody has limits and you’re not a failure if your diagnosis gives you limits that most people don’t have. Having limits and learning to accommodate them is a natural, important and healthy thing.

Less: “Change your attitude, change your life.” More: “Your diagnosis and how it impacts your life isn’t an attitude problem and getting better is much more complicated than thinking positive thoughts and that’s okay.”

Less: “Stay positive and you’ll be happy.” More: “It’s okay to struggle with negative emotions and nobody can be positive all the time. Struggling to stay positive doesn’t make you a bad or weak person.”

Less: “You have so many wonderful reasons to live.” More: “Your life is valuable and you deserve to be here even if it feels like you don’t have many reasons to live right now - cause you’ll find those reasons along the way.”

Less: “Remember that life is amazing!” More: “Your life may suck right now but that doesn’t mean it won’t be worth it in the long run.”

Less empty platitudes, more compassion.

[bad-days-are-ok]

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

if you have recently found someone who turned out to not be right for you, remember:

you deserve someone who will make you happy

you deserve someone who doesn’t make you question if you’re their priority

you deserve someone who listens

you deserve someone who validates your feelings

you deserve someone who loves you just as much as you love them

you deserve someone who makes time for you

you deserve someone who gushes about you

you deserve someone who makes sure you know they enjoy spending time with you

you deserve someone who makes you laugh on your worst days

you deserve someone who makes you go to bed with a smile on your face, not tears in your eyes

you deserve someone who doesn’t make you worry you might say the wrong thing

you deserve someone who is willing to drop everything to comfort you on a really bad day

you deserve someone who pays attention to the little things you like and dislike

you deserve someone who gets you

you deserve someone who sees a future with you

you deserve someone who appreciates you

you deserve better

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

at the time, i wrote this having not even found that person. but now i have them and have proven myself right.

[memeuplift]

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Image text: "Never quit" sounds great, but sometimes, you gotta quit. Be willing to say "this isn't what I thought it was" or "this doesn't appeal to me anymore." Remember that you can quit "the thing" without quitting on yourself. Remember that persistence and fluidity can coexist."

[theselfcarelifestyle]

In case you were never allowed to be angry as a child and now you ‘just don’t get angry’…

Anger can be a normal, healthy and safe emotion as long as you’re not hurting yourself or someone else.

[selkiesi-blog]

a little gif I just made ♡ 

[suggestionsofkindness]

You are not hard to love, you just ran into the wrong people. There are someone out there who will love you so much, and you will feel the warmth of that love. Please don’t give up.

You would not ask someone who does not value the sky and the stars to go stargazing with you. The value of the sky is just the same, as is yours. You just need to find the stargazers. 🌸

[seapunksundog]

[miscbones]

Me too! Please tell me when I do a good job!

[aniseandspearmint]

Okay, but this is kind of important. As kids get older, the amount of times they’re praised for doing something correctly, or GOOD really peters off until, by the time they’re adults, it’s seen as juvenile or immature to want to be told you’re doing a good job at something.

Mentioning this to a much older person has gotten me scoffed at, “Oh, so you want me to give you a pat on the back for/ every little thing you do/?”

Well, no, of course not. But I do like it when my efforts are /recognized/. It’s incredibly disheartening to put your all into something and have it go completely unacknowledged.

[traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors]

Your suffering is enough. Your pain is enough. I'm sorry you were made to feel that you had to prove you needed help.

[chuckdrawsthings]

strength

[ptsdconfessions]

Has anyone get triggered by a certain smell? Like an aftershave or colon ?

I can still smell the colon, and it has been over 40 years.

Hey anon, smell can definitely be a huge trigger, for both good and bad things, even if they happened a really long time ago! Here's an article about it that goes into more detail if you're interested. -Winter xx

[kdinjenzen]

This is your friendly reminder to not bow to “Holiday Guilt”

You’ll see a lot of posts saying “Don’t forget to talk to/send gifts/reconnect with family! Now is the time for forgiveness and understanding!” - but you don’t have to do that, you don’t owe anyone who has done you wrong a single thing.

“The Holidays” are not a magical eraser that wipes the slate clean, it’s not a “cure all” or “Band-Aid” for abusive people to use to get forgiveness without doing the work to earn it, it’s not a time to “put our differences aside and enjoy a meal” - you have your own agency and you should not let some Crappily Worded Greeting Card Post/Tweet/Commercial/Movie “message” sway you into forgiving people (even temporarily) who don’t deserve it.

Forgiveness is a precious gift that isn’t just given to someone every 25th of December for the reason of “IT’S THE HOLIDAYS!”

[mentalhealthhelpblog]

[ptsdconfessions]

Can someone's tone of voice and/or wording be a trigger?

I feel like I might've overreacted when the person who emotionally and mentally abused me demanded me to do something in harsh tone. I felt like I was kid again, helpless to anything they said or did to me. I just feel as though I overreacted.

Hey anon, yes someone's tone of voice or wording could definitely be a trigger if they said something in a similar way to the person who abused you. -Winter x

[ptsdconfessions]

My ex girlfriend told me PTSD kills people and it's completely fucking me over.

So a reminder to all. You are a good person. None of this is your fault. And it's okay to get better. You deserve to be happy.

Let go when you are ready.

Wow that was incredibly rude of her to say something like that! I'm so sorry you had that experience anon! I hope you can believe your lovely reminder for yourself as well. All of us with PTSD deserve to happiness and to live a full and happy life. -Winter xx

[ptsdconfessions]

Content thieves, think up your own posts smh. We know u just take other popular posts and blatantly plagiarize them, barely change any language and add nothing useful of your own! No credit. So rude and stupid, stealing from other blogs run by mentally ill people. You aren’t helping anyone, just stealing from genuine struggling ppl who are actually trying to help others, not rack up undeserved likes/reblogs like you do!

I honestly don't know what you're talking about? I hardly make any original posts and the ones I do make I come up with by myself.

This whole message is completely offensive on so many different levels and I really don't appreciate it.