Replies about PTSD awareness!
It's great that you're able to channel the things you've gone through into something so positive for the community, and to bring attention to a very underappreciated issue. <3
fallynephemeron replied to your post “The more research I do into complex PTSD the more I realize that I...”
complex PTSD is so difficult. That's what me and the kids are dealing with righ tnow. all of us. Even my mom from going through everything with me.
As someone who also suffers from mental illness and PTSD, I think this is a GREAT idea. ♡ You’re so brave, and I totally support you!
Let’s do something awesome for awareness in June. c;
I’ve got time to figure something awesome out. :)
I know one misunderstanding that I want to set on fire and stomp on and bury and then spit on its grave is the “you just want attention” thing. If there is just one person out there who, after reading my story, knows better than to accuse someone else of “just wanting attention”, then my life is completely validated forever.
Another thing I really want to focus on is how trauma changes the structure of your brain and the expression of your genes. Like I really cannot “let things go” or “lighten up” or “get over it”, because the trauma during my childhood played a huge role in how my brain developed. My brain adapted to living in a chaotic and unsafe environment where occasionally my life was in danger, and I can’t instantly rewire and restructure my brain. I’m working on it, but it’s gonna take years.
It’s just really important to me to try and grow understanding in the Sims community after the Bad Times, where I already had the PTSD from my childhood when I got targeted by the trolls over at the anonymous community that shall not be named, and that was just...well, I call it the Bad Times for a reason.
So yeah, if I can do anything to save even just one other person from what I went through, I want to do it. And I figure, well, even if I can’t reach the trolls, maybe I’ll help someone become more conscious of their own PTSD, which if I’d been conscious of it back then I wouldn’t have been so vulnerable. Like for instance, if I’d known that the toxic shame was so common in survivors and that it wasn’t real, that would have really really really helped me to not internalize the whole “If the entire community surrounding the thing I love most calls me out in public every Friday night to talk about how horrible I am, well, I must be pretty damn horrible” thing.
*goes off to do more research*
