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@Hashi Thank you for asking! PTS is a symptom of trauma. It's what happened to us. I refuse to allow it to define my life. You can still be happy despite horrific memories.

I'm in therapy to resolve my flashbacks and body memories. As I should be. I'm going to do it with a smile on my face and my sense of humor intact. My humor will save me as it always has.

Are you aware there are therapies available where you don't have to re live trauma? I'm taking a pass on the EDMR. The details of my trauma require a different method.
 
S2T: My previous post probably sounds confrontational, for which I apologize even before you bite my head off :sneaky:. What I'm going to say now may offend you even more, but it is said with compassion, which will probably enrage you. But that's perfectly fine with me. I suspect you are scared shitless, and your happy front buries a lot of hurt.

But this is me getting sappy. I must be mad.
 
But walking through that pain will set you freer than you ever thought imaginable

Yes! We agree. That's what I'm talking about! This isn't my first journey within. I have processed trauma before. These new memories will release a greater sense of freedom.

I have hang ups I now understand. It can only get better from here. I don't want to have a heart attack in the process!
 
I suspect you are scared shitless

Yes! Scared sh!tless of having a heart attack.

your happy front buries a lot of hurt.

Why can't you accept I'm happy? C'mon..give me a better reason than the one you stated. Cute comment about biting. I resolved my need to bite a very long time ago. ;) My concern is for the general public. You have touchy feely,handzee and full on gropers. I nearly took down our local sax player! I have to avoid the restaurant he plays in. He's a groper and it's socially unacceptable for me to knee him! I can't control my reflex. On the other hand he deserves it. Funny nonetheless. LOL Talking/arguing with inanimate objects (my floor steamer) has to be a sign of insanity! LOL I'll deal with this on my terms and much laughter will be involved. That's just how I roll. :p
 
If you are above and beyond your trauma what do you need therapy for, a truly happy person would not need or want therapy, surely? I think I personally will agree to disagree or something like that, because I don't understand your thinking - if you truly believe this with every aspect of your conciousness, I don't even know - it's why I said it was either denial or delusional before - maybe that's just me, I mean try telling a colour blind person there was a whole other colour - they couldn't comprehend it, I'm currently in that position. I just hope that you don't get hurt or that this comes crashing down or breaks. It kind of reminds me of Me, Myself and Irene at the beginning before the guy lost it (not that the film is in any way even remotely medically accurate), I equate what I imagine that split did for him being possible for you and I know it shouldn't bother me because I don't know you or anything, but I feel the need to try to help but I seem unable and completely unable to understand. I try to comprehend it with questions like have you considered that you may have a form of dissociation between you and your trauma or by analysing it and seeing that even if what happened wasn't personal to your abusers, even if you could sympathise with their thinking how could you not take it even a little personally. But still I can't comprehend it, I so I bow and take my leave and hope you truly have found something unique and different - another plane of thinking. Good luck. :)
 
I try to comprehend it with questions like have you considered that you may have a form of dissociation between you and your trauma

No. I understand it completely. I'm keenly aware of the many dynamics of dysfunction. I'm aware if I had been born into a healthy family I wouldn't have been abused. My unwillingness to participate in the "family tradition" caused my abuse.
 
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