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I've found art and poetry threads but not one for writing. Mods - if there is such a thread, feel free to close this one. One of the problems I have is blaming myself for what happened when I was a boy. I was in an impossible position, but the adult me tends to take a critical view of how I...

An AI engine came up with the following "mindfulness" approach for dealing with flashbacks - instead of getting swept away in the experience, try to put some distance between yourself and the events. Try to bee like an observer, describing the scene and what is going on without judging or...

I've given some background on my childhood trauma in another thread. To cut a long story short, when I was a teenage boy, I was made to women's shapewear. Some class bullies thought it really funny to make the chubby class nerd wear a girdle. They forced me into it that first time, took...

As a teenage boy, I was a bit overweight and was taunted by bullies about needing a girdle. This was was back in the late seventies, when such things were regularly advertised on TV and displayed in department store windows. There was one such store on the way to school, and they'd point at...

Hi, My name's Dave and I've just joined. I've never been diagnosed, but I have had some symptoms that match up with those of CPTSD so I thought I'd have a look around just to educate myself if nothing else, as I'm always wary of self-diagnosing. Over the years I have had flashbacks and panic...