OliveJewel

Tacos and Coke.

For a late breakfast I had a preprepared nutty salad that DH bought in his way home last night and a mug of vanilla tea.

See

Iris (a bearded flower)

Blueberries forming

Thank you for starting this thread! I love talking about vegetable gardening. I have two little greenhouses that I use to start plants...

It took me twice as long to walk from the tram stop today because I had to stop and take pictures of this tree 😁 I have no idea what...

@Freddyt — new vocabulary word for me! Grass

Bawker/Balker (Take whichever one you like)

Just a heads up, @Scottbraveheart and other ptsd sufferers, that you must read this before posting messages in the Supporters section.

Undies

A potential problem with this belief that I can see is accountability—which is why I posted in “Cognitive distortions”. Like an...

Jill Scott - Closure

Fleetwood Mac - I Don't Want To Know

Figured out the berry plant is currant! I'm happy about it!

Thread

The straight up bad news is that it’s him, whether PTSD is weighing in, or not. There’s no way to seperate out the “real” person from...

Kit

Ah, my mistake @OliveJewel. I automatically default to a trauma parts type structure. I have to be careful of that. Glad you were...

Hammer

Supply

Breath

I use super sour or super hot candies to stay present. I would talk to your therapist though. Maybe they need to dial it back a bit so...

Onion

I certainly can't speak for @Friday, but I can't say I personally ever felt like I have separate brains, pre or post traumas or with...

I don’t mean they are inaccessible—though I understand that parts are not available when a person is living in crisis. I mean that...

I shattered as well about 15 years ago. I was placed solidly into a traumatized part of my brain that had been sealed away. It was...

Helpful perspective—thank you! Makes a lot of sense that without developmental trauma a person wouldn’t need to experience a split...

I can definitely say that’s not the case for me… and I operate out of several different headspaces. No more than I have 2 bodies, my...

Jail

It does but I don't think so. It sort of grows like a hydrangea? Not the one pictured, but it spreads and fans up like hydrangea. I...

I think that this external locus of control that you carry around might be something to consider. One of the things that I noticed...

Kind of looks like a maple?

Yes @OliveJewel . Except our's didn't bark much, or bark back at dogs. i think the opposite- they reacted (in silence) when they gauged...

Am starting to suspect that having two minds or two brains is normal and healthy. Because everyone is born in a framework with many...

Tom

All of them! I have a dog, a cat, and a bird. I used to breed lizards. And at my work (a school) I manage the care of two mini...

I had a guinea pig named Peanut. He would wake me up for school by all his noises knowing I'd feed him before I left. Such happy sweet...

I like this article about van der Kolk and his pioneering en research in ptsd. Bessel van der Kolk likes to introduce his workshops on...

Prepared and ate dinner. It wasn’t that good. But I didn’t have to think about making dinner. It is still a win.

Boundary

My trauma is childhood based. I really struggled to open up / even talk at times. My therapist (a psychologist) was the opposite to me...

Denial

I feel this. I had a big dog by my side all my life until the divorce. I loved their size, I loved that they barked at strangers. I...

That’s why I build up self confidence, passion, delight, pride, et al (IE components that the feeling of safety is built upon) <<<...

Something else occurred to me: when a person has experienced contrary experiences from another person, that is, not communication so...

Hi, I also have OCD and restrictive eating/binge cycles. My symptoms have reduced greatly through therapy. Animal lover too. And also...

Hello, I am a survivor of complex trauma linked to decades of abuse of various kinds, especially child abuse and domestic...