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Disclosure is so complicated. If it was just about us personally, it would mostly be straightforward - disclosure is often an incredibly powerful way to lighten the burden of shame and make big strides in recovery. But then you factor in the person you’re disclosing to - they’re as much a part...

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What do you mean by W triggers?

I don’t have any experience with fostering, but this: is something that I relate to a lot. And I read this kind of minimising a lot in these parts. While we’re neck-deep in trauma, I think it can be a survival strategy to think this way - it’s not really so bad,, it’s pretty normal, I can...

Welcome to the forum! By physical reactions, do you mean reactions when you encounter a trauma trigger (for example, a racing heartbeat when something reminds you of your traumatic experience), a long-term physical complaint (for example, fibromyalgia) or something else?

There’s so many factors about your personal situation that are going to be relevant in deciding the best option for you. Approaching a family planning organisation in your country would be ideal, or speak to your GP. Be aware - laws and norms vary astronomically depending on what part of the...

Welcome to the forum, glad you found us☺️ The anhedonia is particularly difficult - hope that the worst of that particular symptom is behind you because yeah - that one is a nasty Mofo.

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Little opportunities we take to advocate for ourselves can play such an important role in our recovery. Glad the complaint process was helpful for you☺️

Welcome to the forum - you’ll find a number of folks here relate to what you’re going through. Hope you also have someone in your life supporting you with your recovery.

Sorry you experienced that. Do you have a therapist that you’re working with?

Have you practiced any grounding strategies that have worked for you?

Welcome to the forum. I’m sorry for what you’ve been through. It’s incredibly hard when the people in our lives aren’t able to hear our stories or hold our truth with us. I hope that your T is someone that you can be completely open with, because it’s so valuable to have that from someone, and...

Welcome to the forum - sorry for the reasons that brought you here. Hopefully there’s some helpful resources here to help your recovery.

Welcome to the forum - hope everything is okay ☺️

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If there’s a lot of overlap with your own experiences, consider peer / lived experience roles where that will be an asset, rather than a problem. AOD is very real. Hard, complex work with multiple layers of issues that are all feeding each other, and you get to work in a very narrow window of...

PTSD happened. Something triggered you (could have been environmental, cognitive, somatic, emotional - the list of potential triggers is infinite), and you went into fight/flight mode. A hair-trigger Fight/Flight response is textbook PTSD. Arguably the defining feature of ptsd. It doesn’t...

Okay, there’s good news and bad news. The good news? Getting anxious about an environmental stressor, like barking dogs, falls well below the threshold for ptsd. There’s multiple groups of symptom clusters, and you need to have symptoms rise to clinical levels in each category. The bad news...

Identifying my own warning signs, and having appropriate interventions that I was willing to commit to when they happen. Mine was a traffic light system - more serious warning signs had more serious interventions. It was an incredibly helpful process for me - one that I have revisited multiple...

It’s not something that I’d say I do frequently enough to have a usual approach. But, the underlying drive would be curiosity I think. I have requirements for people that I’m in a relationship with - being able to treat each other respectfully is definitely necessary for me. The second part...

Welcome to the forum. This is a massive personal setback, and after so long in this career, it makes sense that it’s caused such a lot of ongoing distress. Might be time to reach out for some professional support to help you get back to the headspace you need to be in to start kicking goals again.

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We don’t have a private message function here for members to message each other. Definitely if you’re considering taking legal action against anyone, your best bet would be to get legal advice from an attorney in your jurisdiction, since this is an international forum and the laws for one...