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You know you have complex trauma when......

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You know you have complex trauma when you expand your social network in real life by three but have difficulty adapting to the increased stress/pressure of interactions because it is exhausting and you spend a couple to several hours every single day to manage before you met them.
The struggle is REAL. And the friends don't have any idea how much energy it takes to prepare for socializing. Or they don't get it!
 
You know you have complex trauma when your therapist begins speaking and it triggers yet another trauma memory which wasn't even the topic he was discussing.

When one trauma led to skills in a hobby that you can't use unless you're triggered into that fragment of yourself.
 
When you reteach yourself skills you can access in other states because not being ready is an issue for you.

And explaining why you're doing that would require explaining complex trauma that you're on most happier pretending isn't as tangled as is.
 
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