RussellSue
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CPTSD has been long-term for me - let's say over 33 years, if I still have it. In my early 20s, I was 110% disabled - I couldn't effectively care for myself, though it wasn't until my late 20s that anything began to change - that was when I started college.
I wish I had understood much earlier that my recovery from the disability that came along with my cPTSD was going to be more about gaining skills that I could use while I still had cPTSD than it would be about forcing a speedy recovering from my condition. Pushing rather than accepting brought me a lot of disappointment and wasted a lot of time but did not improve my symptoms nor my employability. I had to decide to accept things like this not as a coward but as someone with enough awareness to maybe improve her own life.
Do you have a story about how you overcame your disability and went back to work, school or long-term volunteering?
I think we get a lot of bunk information from a variety of sources - it would be really cool for people to see what real roads to recovery from disability look like because honestly, I thought that if I couldn't make it in nursing school, this meant I was screwed. The line of thinking that said I had to be cured before I could excel kept me in a self-defeating cycle for a long damned time. We have better information than this.
I wish I had understood much earlier that my recovery from the disability that came along with my cPTSD was going to be more about gaining skills that I could use while I still had cPTSD than it would be about forcing a speedy recovering from my condition. Pushing rather than accepting brought me a lot of disappointment and wasted a lot of time but did not improve my symptoms nor my employability. I had to decide to accept things like this not as a coward but as someone with enough awareness to maybe improve her own life.
Do you have a story about how you overcame your disability and went back to work, school or long-term volunteering?
I think we get a lot of bunk information from a variety of sources - it would be really cool for people to see what real roads to recovery from disability look like because honestly, I thought that if I couldn't make it in nursing school, this meant I was screwed. The line of thinking that said I had to be cured before I could excel kept me in a self-defeating cycle for a long damned time. We have better information than this.