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Poll Do You Re-create Your Trauma?

How you re-create your trauma? (Select no if you don't). Please discuss below if comfortable.

  • No - I dont re-create my trauma.

    Votes: 19 17.1%
  • I seek out many partners to have sex with.

    Votes: 20 18.0%
  • I sexual want to be hurt by partner (sexual harm).

    Votes: 42 37.8%
  • I sexual self harm (gentials).

    Votes: 19 17.1%
  • I tend to cheat on my spouce/partner, with or without knowing why.

    Votes: 17 15.3%
  • I have once or more than once sexually touched a child (as a child or an adult).

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • I tend to have regular risk seeking behaviors (life threatening or very close to).

    Votes: 35 31.5%
  • I tend to anger easily and tend to scream and/or lash out at others on a regular basis.

    Votes: 30 27.0%
  • I tend to put others down all, or a lot, of the time.

    Votes: 9 8.1%
  • Other - please explain below.

    Votes: 28 25.2%

  • Total voters
    111
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lostforgottensoul

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NOTE: I have no idea why some of the options in the poll are bold with a * and some arent...i didnt do that on purpose. Likely a user error but I wanted to put that out there.

My reason for this poll is I feel that a lot can identify with re-creating your trauma and struggling with it and for those comfortable to talk about it, Id like to discuss it, how you do it (as much as you are comfortable and as much as you want), how you stopped if you did, how you are trying to stop if you are, or if you are struggling a lot with it. Basically lets all write it out and support each other. Give each other ideas of how to stop and just generally support each other.

Ok, what I do. I do a lot of re-creating my traumas but on here (multiple answers allowed) I seek out many partners to have sex with, I sexual want to be hurt by partner, and I sexual self harm (gentials), I have once or more than once sexually touched a child (as a child or an adult), suppose the remainer would fall under other.

So I seek out many guys to have sex with and when I am seeking them out, I am forcefully seductive. I call that the "child prostitute". Im unsure why I still put "child" there but thats how it feels so thats what I named it.

When they agree and we are having sex I turn fully submissive and do anything they want even if I dont want to and I want them to hurt me as much as possible. To ensure pain, I will a lot of the time cut inside of myself, put rubbing alcohol in a turkey baster (how boiling water was done back then) and put rubbing alcohol in myself and that not only makes it hurt worse, it also stops the bleeding so the guy wont know anything and that makes any sort of sex hurt, very bad. Im unsure why and unsure how to stop.

I can enjoy sex without pain as I do, at times, masturbate without pain. But then Im normally thinking of my step dad so that might be re-created trauma in of itself, unsure of that.

I do also cut my gential area on a 'regular' basis. I do that as 'punishment' as it was done back then. And the things I deam need of 'punishments' could be as little as doing something wrong or making someone upset but I am also a cutter (my upper arms) and didnt include that as thats not really re-creating trauma, self harm is a coping mechinism. I included self harming gentials for those of us that had that happen back in the days of trauma.

When I was 14 I touched, molested, a 10 month old baby boy that I was babysitting for about 5 mins before I ran, put him in the playpen and went to go throw up. I had one other fleeing thought soon after about my then 2 yr old nephew but talked myself out of it and I havent thought about it since but "punished" myself for it for years by cutting inside my gentials. I stopped punishing when I had posted about it, in detail here, got non-judgement and wonderful replies and then read it to my therapist, whom knew I did it but never knew the details, my therapist and I had the entire session discussion about it in detail and it seemed some of that self hatred eased and over time I just stopped feeling the need to "punish" myself over it. I was just doing what was being done to me and I thought it was "normal".

Other would also be: I still self do the rituals but now 2 (the one I didnt bring into adulthood and the one I since stopped after posting it on here). Unsure why I feel I need to. I call it a "ritual urge" which is stronger than an addiction ugre, or so it seems. I was able to stop the one by turning it on its end, or upside down (opppsite it seems) but havent yet been able to stop the remainder yet. The sexual seeking ("child prostitute"), I believe, is one of those as my entire mental state turns back into the child prostitute which is why I named it as such. Also a lot of the sexual wanting to be hurt by a partner is also one, I believe as prostituting as a child was a ritual back then as was hurting me, until blood is seen, during sex. So I deem both a ritual (seeking many partners, muliple a lot of the time, and pain during sex).

For those that dont know (some dont), I grew up in a cult headed by my step dad (now dead) and mom.

Ok, so lets talk about your re-creating trauma. This is a judgement free zone. Lets discuss, support each other, help each other...let get this out in the open and really gain some support here.

Remember, if yours isnt listed, select other then explain as I have (if comfortable) as we had individual traumas thus we may re-create it in individual ways.

Write as much or as little as you want and are comfortable with. If you arent comfortable, thats ok. You can write a line or a book. I hope that this serves as a way of good support for those of us that does re-create traumas.
 
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Past: I seek out many partners to have sex with, I tend to cheat on my spouse/partner, with or without knowing why, I tend to have regular risk seeking behaviors (life threatening or very close to). Present: I sexual self harm (genitals), I tend to anger easily and tend to scream and/or lash out at others on a regular basis, Other - please explain below.

Others:
  • I've never acted, but have had sexual thoughts about children both as a child and an adult. Have masturbated to the thought of children being hurt, watched porn and imagined it was a kid, etc. Not specific children, mind you. It's always a "vague other." In real life children give me panic, I imagine them being hurt but it's not sexual, it's fear.
  • Perhaps a sub-set of risk-seeking behaviors, so-called Vigilante Days where I would seek out pedophiles over the internet (when I was a minor) or find situations in real life where abusers congregate and lure them in. Get close to them. Believe them. We're going to go far away, we're going to build a new life together. I'm yours. Then cut the cord.
  • Immersion-mental. Obsessively read about/watch media that deals with the topic of rape and pedophilia. Obsessively research the criminology and pathology behind pedophilia and rape and abuse. Binge-watch 15 seasons of Law and Order SVU. Subscribe to legal publications on horrendous court cases. Research serial killers, write to inmates, etc.
  • Immersion-physical. Shower episodes. Run the sprinkling water. Trigger-boom! Explosions and electricity. Trigger panic. Panic panic panic panic. Put my head under the water. Walk in the rain and storms. Throw a punch, get one back. Lead them on, up against the wall, inside out. Stand on top of the bridge and look down. Feet over the edge. Visit hospitals. Sit on the exam table.
 
I would seek out pedophiles over the internet (when I was a minor) or find situations in real life where abusers congregate and lure them in. Get close to them. Believe them. We're going to go far away, we're going to build a new life together. I'm yours. Then cut the cord.

Oh my gosh, I used to do that in my early 20s except i never cut the cord. I would be on like yahoo messaging advising them i was 13 or so and explained my profile away as my sister's and the ones that believed i was a kid really wanted to know specific child only things. Id talk like a kid and would have cyber sex with them. It would make me sick at myself and them...like OMG that was a pedophile! I was so damn good at it I could of been some under cover cop or something.

I dont know why I stopped, I just did one day.

Immersion-mental. Obsessively read about/watch media that deals with the topic of rape and pedophilia. Obsessively research the criminology and pathology behind pedophilia and rape and abuse. Binge-watch 15 seasons of Law and Order SVU. Subscribe to legal publications on horrendous court cases. Research serial killers, write to inmates, etc.

I do this sort of. I will go on like binge of researching cults, human trafficking, cults, kinappings etc. I will watch as many documentries and shows i can and research as much as I can.

Put my head under the water.

I do this as sorts of punishments.

Stand on top of the bridge and look down.

Ive done that but when i was suicidal.
 
@lightraze and/or @The Albatross have either one or both of you guys (or anyone that wants to answer these) ever had the 'want to' to stop any of the listed things you do, have you tried to stop and/or replace it with something different, have you and your therapist discuss ways to stop/replace it and if so what were those ideas, have you been successful at stopping (even for a short time), or was it not successful, and do you have any ideas for those on the board that do these things to stop/replace these re-creations of trauma?

I want to support, discuss, and even discuss ways we can stop and/or replace these things with something else, if any one has ideas.

I can maybe give my specific ideas (if I have some) in a while as I have to get in the shower soon and go to my therapist.
 
Yeah, I stopped the behavior I had before marriage. I wanted to stop even when I was doing it, but that was like 2 and a half decades before I even knew I had PTSD. Added in edit: I guess I shifted priority to marriage over multiple sexual partner urges? I clicked no by the way... none on the list or other that I know of since my first marriage at 23.

I'll think about it some more and assist if I can.
 
None of the above. (And molesters are on my shitlist, I don't care the age or reasons.)

But I seek out people I shouldn't. Or people who seek people who they shouldn't, more often.

And I need a big 'Bro, knock it off, before things get bad or you get bad' sign every so often.
 
I do want to keep this thread as non-judgemental as possible so I want to ask for clairifications about this (not jumping to conclusions, asking for clarification):

(And molesters are on my shitlist, I don't care the age or reasons.)

When I had molested the 10 month old, I was 14 and it was for 5 mins and threw up and after the 2nd fleeing thought, I had never had another thought since.

Is that what you mean?

But I seek out people I shouldn't. Or people who seek people who they shouldn't, more often.

I wont ask you for more info as I only want folks to post what they are comfortable with but im wondering if you have found ways to not do that or is there something that helps you seek better people or is it something you still struggle with?

I still struggle with my issues and the only one i was able to stop is one of the rituals but i cant seem to stop the rest the same way....yet.

If anyone has any advise from the ones I posted that Im struggling with, I am always open for suggestions and i hope this thread serves that purpose for all that feel comfortable to post with these sort of issues. Out of everything, I hope it serves as support for those that struggle with re-creating their trauma, no matter what that might be.
 
Seek out sexual sadists. Ones that are big on control 24/7 with everything I do, and are particularly into physical pain and humiliation.

My T knows. It stops when I get put in hospital because it's become too dangerous. Haven't done it in 3 months. The urge doesn't go away, but I know it's an addiction and I need to just not start rather than pretend I can just dabble a bit, because once I'm in I'm all in.

I don't masturbate, let alone go in for genital mutilation stuff unless instructed to. Ever. Because that part of my body doesn't belong to me.
 
NOTE: I have no idea why some of the options in the poll are bold with a * and some arent...i didnt do that on purpose. Likely a user error but I wanted to put that out there.
 
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It stops when I get put in hospital because it's become too dangerous.

I feel ya on that one. Ive been in some very dangerous situations.

Is that the only way you've been able to stop? Have you been able to stop after doing it without being hospitalized? Im not judging, Im wondering of any coping skills that you can pass onto the thread is all.

The urge doesn't go away, but I know it's an addiction and I need to just not start rather than pretend I can just dabble a bit, because once I'm in I'm all in.

Its like an addiction for me (and def once you start its like you never stopped so its like an addiction that way) but for me the urge is stronger. I say that because im a clean addict that has never been to rehab. Im a very strong willed person and got myself off all drugs i was addicted to by myself but this, this I cant seem to. I call it a "ritual urge" because it just feels stronger.

And I can predict, in order, what happens when I fight it. The ritual urge comes first, i fight that then the cutting and "punishment" urges come, I fight that and I go straight on the edge figuring out a plan suicidal. How or why my brain makes those jumps I dont know.

For me, its just something I cant seem to fight. Id love to figure out why and how.

@Ragdoll Circus does it seem stronger than an addiction urge for you or does it feel the same? And forgive me, I dont remember if you have ever been addicted to any substance so dont know if you can compare it that way.

Its totally a type of addiction. Im here for you if you ever need to "talk it out" or just vent to someone! Ive never been hospitalized but I do "get it"! :hug:
 
Can't compare it to a drug addiction because I'm a total nerd that's never done drugs or drank much:geek:

When I first got into it, I was able to stop once without hospital because my then-T said if I didn't stop, he wouldn't continue to see me (not as a punishment thing - he said it was too awful for him on a personal level, which was a bit of a wake up call).

Other than that, it's always taken hospitalisation, sometimes a couple of admissions to stop. I think that's because the danger doesn't actually register as an issue. Might get totally messed up and left for dead, or actually get left dead - but my head is like, "Um, yeah, and the problem with that is...??"

So stopping basically has to be forced on me. In my head, once I'm in, I belong to them in every sense of the word. I'm not allowed to walk away.
 
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