#ptsd things

[heartspin2023]

Some things just need to be written by hand

-HEARTSPIN 💚

[penname-artist]

Literally, this might just be the most important fucking thing about mental health and responding to trauma that people completely forget about.

Side note: some people are stupid enough to even debate whether or not sexual abuse is “life-threatening enough to cause PTSD”, because people THINK that PTSD means it had to be life-threatening. It doesn’t. It can come from ANY experience that may damage a person’s mental state or psyche, just as badly as a real life-threatening experience. It depends on the person and how their brains react, not the instance itself.

[my-funked-up-life]

Now, wouldn't that be like an earth shattering-gasm?

[queenbread]

Shes so me coded part 2: Electric boogaloo

When the

[laineystein]

Everyone else after last night’s attack: *not doing well*

Me, a first responder with severe PTSD: *not phased*

Days like today are a reminder that my brain is very different than most people’s and it’s probably not very healthy.

But anyway! Sofash is here. Shabbos is about to start BH

Gut Shabbos, fam! Take care of yourselves! ✡️

[my-lonely-thoughts]

You know what's really messed up?

My body and brain literally freaks out if I am too happy or comfortable :/

Having a good day? SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG. PANIC TIME .

feeling cozy before bed?? WRONG. NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE.

Someone enjoys your company and you feel safe with them? ABORT ABORT IT IS ACTUALLY SOMEHOW *NOT* SAFE!!!

so... Yeah! Really loving that right now :)

[unstablemotions]

My PTSD ass when the microwave beeps - no matter how prepared I make myself for the eventual noise:

[bipolarmango]

Complex PTSD is fun. I thought I would just need to talk about my most recent trauma that currently gives me a lot of PTSD symptoms but turns out I need to talk about much earlier trauma first because all my behaviour is based on how I have had to learn to behave to survive that trauma when it was happening.

The problem is that in order to protect me my brain has dissociated me from that trauma so I'm totally disconnected from those memories and my emotional responses to them, so to even get started with any trauma processing I first need to learn how to connect with my emotions. Also, because of severe childhood trauma my emotional development is non-existent and compensated by an overly developed cognitive development, so I'm just trying to reason my way out of the trauma. Great stuff.