@gardenlobster.bsky.socialPick yourself up, dust yourself off, and put one foot in front of the other. When the familiar is unsafe, there is #hope in the unknown, if you seek it. 💜
#keepgoing #babysteps #healing #recovery #survivorstrong #survivor #mentalhealth #personalgrowth
@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month -
Reflection -
In CPTSD there is the persona you show the world -
and there is the 'truth' that you hide.
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When healing it is easy to seek another's embrace.
We crave it.
But what we need is to embrace ourselves.
#MentalHealth #noStigma #SurvivorStrong
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A handful of Asus sounds good. But when those aces are adverse childhood events...
How many ACEs do you have?
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@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month.
One of the largest hurdles to clear in trying to treat CPTSD is admitting that you need - and that you are worthy - of help.
The mad keep secrets.
We hide our faces for shame.
We fight in silence.
@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month.
You clipped my wings and thought you had won . But you forgot I have claws.
@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month.
To all those who fight to just live -
I hope you know that doing the work, as hard as it is, as exhausting as it is, as much as it hurts sometimes is a form of self-love.
#MentalHealth #noStigma #SurvivorStrong
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Some days there are just no words.
An 'emotional flashback' can be descrived as when emotions crash over us, and we are swept away, but we have no memory to tie them to. For folks with CPTSD that may be multiple events, sometimes entire childhoods.
#MentalHealth #noStigma #SurvivorStrong
@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month.
Often, people who suffer with CPTSD are not built around a central feeling of self-worth. That 'I' in individual.
We often have no 'I'.
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In a few conversations I have had recently, I have really felt this over and over.
The 'normal' folks will never understand the way we see the world or operate.
And yet, they demand that we fit into theirs.
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@thinkingtooloud.orgBroken.
That is a word that people with #CPTSD often apply to themselves.
It comes with such a certainty of truth that folks who are neuro-normative frequently can't comprehend the depth of the wrongness we perceive in ourselves.
#MentalHealth #noStigma #SurvivorStrong
@thinkingtooloud.orgSeptember is #CPTSD awareness month
A note on self harm
We who self harm, We are no different than those who seek relief from our past through alcohol or medication. Self-harm is a coping mechanism. Full stop.
