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The journey begins ... or continues ... articulating the rollercoaster that is my life

Mine tells me she doesn't want to carry that burden alone anymore, so I'm feeling more of her stuff. I gu...
Yeah, I haven't been adding any more stress to my life than I have to deal with. Luckily no work, not really going anywhere, except seeing my trauma T on Tuesday.

I guess I've just been busy creating space so I can get in touch with the damage and reroute my brain, yet again.

I'm quite good at combating the damage, I thought, but last year things just piled up too high and too fast, added to the baggage of other family members, on top of my shitty long term symptoms.

Now, I've become more socially avoidant than ever. I feel like I am healing, but my social capacity has diminished considerably.

I guess attending to this so-very-sad-and-crushed part might help me return to wanting to be and function out in the world again?
 
I guess attending to this so-very-sad-and-crushed part might help me return to wanting to be and function out in the world again?
I suppose so.

The way I see it about not being able to handle people, it's because we're heavy with our own stuff. Who in their right minds want to hear about our sad shit, right? They do, but we don't want put our weight on their shoulders. Which is okay too really. We have therapists for that.
I isolate when I'm battling crap. Weight or no weight on others I can't be there for others.

Things will get better mums :hug:
 
I guess attending to this so-very-sad-and-crushed part might help me return to wanting to be and function out in the world again?
I think more than that ... if you can see all your parts as worthwhile and not in any way pathetic, you can really start integrating them. And then, more than being out in the world ... you'll be YOURSELF, all that are, out in the world.

There's no part of you that's pathetic, Mums. YOU are not pathetic. You are strong - doing what you did to survive. You are strong - healing those parts of you . You are worthwhile - and it is so worth sharing yourself with the world!
 
Hopefully!
It sounds like you've had some success with looking after little you. When you pay attention to her needs, you feel better, she feels better, everyone wins.
Does she have another name other than "pathetic"? "Damaged" or "resigned"? I call that bit my "silent" self.
Just. She isn't pathetic, and she isn't going to integrate with you if she thinks you think she's pathetic.
Maybe something to take to T on Tuesday?
Also, I'm not surprised she's come out, with the awful stuff with your kid.
Sending much love and hugs.
 
It's the emptiness, that, you try to hide.

It's the sadness, hidden, in other's eyes.

It's the fear and running a million miles,
to get away,
from yourself, when you lie.

It's the void and avoidance and grasping and meaningless noise that people make, covering their spinelessness.

I cannot reach you when you fear me,
when you see your own projections.
You reject me and project your sick fantasies upon me.

It's me though, my life, my story.
It cannot be not part of me,
my inadequacies,
my fallacies,
my fears
and my vulnerabilities, isn't it? That's what did it.

Perhaps, my hurt and your hurt are not so different.

You despise my brokenness, my weakness, my strength and my witnessing.
Or do you? Really, you are a mystery, to me.

But you hurt me, so badly.
I could have died, so many times, I cried too many times. I was a child. To myself, I could not align; for you maligned me, confined me, moulded me and scolded me, denied me humanity. You enslaved me and reduced me to a nothing, a nobody, a not-person.

In your eyes,I saw the void, the empty, deep wells of darkness, that terrorized me, destroyed me, left me cold, so cold, so cold and numb, just hanging on by a thread, shattered, shaking constantly, beside myself.

Not one shred of care was ever there, only a prop was I, a trophy, a shill, a convenience, a toy, a thing to be amused by and used up and then discarded.

I decided not to die, I hadn't even had a chance to live!

I survived.

I wanted to know what it is to thrive, to dive deep into life's prime and dine on the nourishment and encouragement and enrichment other's showed me.

I've worked hard to touch the sky and feel the earth beneath my feet, refuse defeat, complete, what I'm here to do.

My life is a middle finger to your desires.
You couldn't bury me.

Mumma groomed me to be a slave, demoralized, but still I refuse to lie down and submit to lies.

I am saved and praise resilience and redemption, while you slowly die of your lies and deception.

I'm not happy about it, but I'm free now and I see now ...It's the emptiness that you try to hide, it's the fear and running a million miles, to get away from yourself, when you lie. With each lie, you die a little more.

I want to live and give the world my truth!

So forgive me when I continue to survive and deny you the satisfaction of my destruction!

You hateful man! You inhumane, empty ruthless excuse for a Dad. You criminal that hides behind children! Who destroys lives and sanity and fakes sanity, to malign by design!

I live to give our children a chance. While you leech and preach false doctrine and suck the soul out of all you can. Drugging and pretending you care and are there for the sick and young and desperate and niave. Lying while people die, believing your claims.

I found what it is to be sane, I cannot say the same for you, predatory wild man.
 
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wow. Just wow. That is ..... I don't even have words. Powerful?? amazing?? wow.

She feels defeated and hated and helpless and judges herself very harshly. She hides and is depressed and apathetic and believes she still has no worth. She doesn't believe that anyone truly cares about her. She would be even too apathetic to take her/my own life. She's just so sad and horrified and frozen and exhausted and defeated and has no fight in her.
I'm a bit disturbed about your silent par because it made me wonder if we all have that? Is there a part of all of us that feels beyond hope? The part that doesn't know she survived? Is that where the judgement comes from? Sad and frozen and horrified -- why do those words make me want to cry? Maybe seeing her so clearly means you've improved so much that you are ready to face her? How do you show her people care? Is that what sites like this are for -- beyond the therapy room? To show her (us) (me) that people are out there who care and want to help you fight for her?

Wow - not enough coffee yet for this deep of a thought......
 
For some reason I can't quote @AngelkeeperJ 's last post but I'm responding to it . Very, very kind. Thank you.
I really appreciate the encouragement and it helps me feel even more resolve about my direction.
Yes it's going to be hard to move separately from my sweetheart but I feel it's the only viable option at the moment. That could change but as it is, I'm not psychologically equipped to live here without ill health and there's no real options available in terms of work or training or study here for myself or my children. So living separately will probably kinda hurt but also, ultimately, be way more healing and conducive to creating a prosperous life. So thank you dear friend @AngelkeeperJ for your extremely kind and warm and light-filled encouragement. It means a lot.:hug: Love you lots.
 
Having a bit of a tough day, more physically felt, than any mental anguish. I mean, I'm aware that my concern and projective worry and fear about my children is like some kind of ptsd mental torture, always in the back of my mind/heart/psyche. I'm going to try to address it, a little, right now.
My childhood and adolescent experience was, on the whole, so psychologically overwhelming, miserable, life-threatening (my own self-harm, food deprivation, being preyed on by multiple sexual predators and also raped as a teen, being death threatened, strangle-assaulted, parentally neglected and abused, subject to domestic violence and sexual assault as a under ten child, school and other children bullied, gaslit and drugged to the point of mental inner-tortured states, teen pregnancies and bush births, homelessness and alone, near fatal alcohol poisoning, a new born baby who nearly died, and is permanently disabled, that sort of thing) add the fact that my kid s dad has something seriously wrong with his mental state, his morals, his maturity and has pretty much non-existent empathy and is a drug-pushing cult-leader type narcy aspie sociopath (yes, diagnosed by one of my T's but not directly, as he is "an enlightened, heroic, beyond-reproach human being" according to himself).

So I suffer horrendous fear and turmoil regarding my children's welfare, constantly. I think this level of stress is what wrecks me.

And until my children are beyond risk, all of them, I doubt I will get a chance to cease suffering from this kind of mental anguish, guilt, worry, fear and ptsd causing physical stress effects and symptoms.
 
diagnosed by one of my T's but not directly, as he is "an enlightened, heroic, beyond-reproach human being" according to himself
Your T said this about himself? Lol seriously?

And until my children are beyond risk, all of them, I doubt I will get a chance to cease suffering from this kind of mental anguish, guilt, worry, fear and ptsd causing physical stress effects and symptoms
I get that mums, absolutely.
Nobody expects you to turn a blind eye to suffering while your kids are still in those circumstances. It would be denial.
You can get better at some of those things, getting more involved with your own kids good things always makes you feel better and you are a good protective mum.
Cumulatively it makes a difference.
 

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