#generational trauma

[alienfromthedeepsea]

I think I’m just now realizing that an 8 year old me’s biggest fear and problem being THE WAR, and the 8 year old me crying myself to sleep every night because of the names list of all the guys that died that day isn’t normal childhood stuff? The generational trauma is real

[prestigiouspea]

Thinking about generational stellium trauma again. What business does my family have with 4 stelliums in a row anyway😭

[pantone2617c]

The Joy Luck Club (1993) broke me apart and mended me back together again

Mothers and daughters healing each other, the stories of women who fought for everything they had, the undoing of generational trauma, a thoroughly Asian American point of view

Please watch The Joy Luck Club if any of these speak to you

[funeral]

Some lives are hit with catastrophic trauma over and over again; then trauma, with its concomitant strategies of survival, becomes a chronic condition. Defenses and denial become second nature; traumatic repetition becomes second nature. Trauma as a mode of being violently halts the flow of time, fractures the self, and punctures memory and language. And then there are those afflicted by what Freud called “Schicksalsneurose,” that is, a “fate neurosis,” who seem to be living under a bad spell, haunted by a curse that often precedes their lives, an ancestral curse perhaps, hidden and intangible, relegated to secrecy and silence.

Gabriel Schwab, Haunting Legacies: Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma

[niskalaexe]

I am always alone.

Not physically, but mentally.

I am surrounded by people so sure their opinions are facts that they laugh in your face the moment you see it differently.

I am surrounded by people so committed to playing the victim that they actively sabotage their own rescue.

I am surrounded by people so consumed by their own lives, they don't notice the damage they leave in their wake.

I am okay, for the most part.

Except when I am laying in pain, and everyone has something far more important to worry about.

Except when I have a victory, and turn around to celebrate with an empty room.

Except when I am writing this with a heavy chest, wishing I didn’t have this story to tell.

[fyhk]

look up generational trauma before arguing that the racist jokes in TVL aren’t harmful for the various dumb reasons you keep coming up with… oh and if you’re PoC please also look up internalized racism, love bye

[scoliosischelsea]

Sometimes I'm reminded of how I raised myself, but then I think of my mother raising herself and it makes me sadder for her. Why wasn't anyone noticing that wonderful little girl?!

[undergroundmotherroad-blog]

The Ultimate Compliment

Someone told me today that I was so different from my mother. They don’t realize the power those words had for me or how they transformed the rest of my day. I could have floated away on a cloud of joy. (more…)

The Ultimate Compliment