saraemerald
MyPTSD Pro
I don't want to sound negative but I was just thinking about this.
Why does trauma and it's aftereffects have to take up so much of our time and our life? Sometimes it just seems stupid.
Like you would like to go back in time and go up to your perpetrators and tell them to knock it off and grow the f#$k up.
How sensitive we are is amazing, how our sense of connection especially when we are young, is very delicate.
I also find it interesting how when trauma involves abuse of some sort, it leaves us, the victim, feeling so much shame and insecurity. And when we carry that sense of shame around because of abuse we have endured, when we interact with peers, especially in school, we get bullied.
Abuse also leaves us with feelings about ourselves like we are ugly, dirty, bad or something is wrong with us. Talk about a fun life! =/ Then when we try to recover, since people who've knows us for awhile and see us a certain way, are not supportive of our recovery. In addition, out culture makes us feel wrong if we opt to not take some sort of prescription for our recovery. And if you go the holistic route which most people are ignorant about, people assume you are annoyingly not being practive about recovery. Talk about being misunderstood! Ugghhh.
When you go through PTSD, you truly get to see people's true colors. No doubt about that!
When are experiencing fullblown symptoms, sometimes people assume things about you without getting to know you and when you are able to hide your painful symptoms and still fullfill all of life's responsibilties and still smile, people assume you are naive or that your life is perfect.
Gotta love it.
Why does trauma and it's aftereffects have to take up so much of our time and our life? Sometimes it just seems stupid.
Like you would like to go back in time and go up to your perpetrators and tell them to knock it off and grow the f#$k up.
How sensitive we are is amazing, how our sense of connection especially when we are young, is very delicate.
I also find it interesting how when trauma involves abuse of some sort, it leaves us, the victim, feeling so much shame and insecurity. And when we carry that sense of shame around because of abuse we have endured, when we interact with peers, especially in school, we get bullied.
Abuse also leaves us with feelings about ourselves like we are ugly, dirty, bad or something is wrong with us. Talk about a fun life! =/ Then when we try to recover, since people who've knows us for awhile and see us a certain way, are not supportive of our recovery. In addition, out culture makes us feel wrong if we opt to not take some sort of prescription for our recovery. And if you go the holistic route which most people are ignorant about, people assume you are annoyingly not being practive about recovery. Talk about being misunderstood! Ugghhh.
When you go through PTSD, you truly get to see people's true colors. No doubt about that!
When are experiencing fullblown symptoms, sometimes people assume things about you without getting to know you and when you are able to hide your painful symptoms and still fullfill all of life's responsibilties and still smile, people assume you are naive or that your life is perfect.
Gotta love it.