Anana
Bronze Member
Hello friends! ?
They call us weird and freaks, those who like drama and acting out, those who go numb and freeze, never realising it is not our about choice but constant mode of survival. When the body is detached from your mind, when you try hard to see another world through cognitive distortions, endlessly trying to feel safe and cared, the state that is so strange to us. Most of the time regulating your thoughts and emotions, most of the days loosing good quality of life.
It can pass many years before we start getting appropriate treatment. We undergo additional traumas or live an isolated lifestyle, self harm or addict to substances to escape from the unbearable pain.
My way to recovery started 5 years ago and I faced lots of challenges. No support, No understanding, No professional competence of doctors. No hope.
SO
I decided not only to get out of this hell but to help others like me. I researched a lot and managed to achieve some progress. And I started studying Clinical Psychology.
It's been almost a year since I found you, the community that helped me to feel that I am not alone in the struggle. Reading your stories relived my pain as if it was me who managed to write out the silent scream inside. Trying to support you was also powerful cure for me. I am from non-English speaking country but I always feel as though we speak common language. Language of pain and despair, hope and compassion.
Now I am preparing a presentation on CPTSD which aims to provide information about this disorder. The phenomenon that is misdiagnosed here and underrated. I strive to make people who are not mental health specialists aware that the way we think and behave has logical backround ( I will talk about neurobilogy, trauma history, coping strategies etc.) and to show psychologists and psychitriats what is behind the listed criteria of CPTSD. I want them to feel at least for some momemt what we feel.
So I would highly appreciate if you shared your stories so I could include them in my presentation. The same stories as we share here but lets give them hear us. Please send your short videos (you can cover your faces) or recordings to email removed, project has ended.
I understand because of worries that you can be seen (surely I will not share my presentation beyond my environment) I have little chance to receive anything. But i do believe that miracles happen)
They call us weird and freaks, those who like drama and acting out, those who go numb and freeze, never realising it is not our about choice but constant mode of survival. When the body is detached from your mind, when you try hard to see another world through cognitive distortions, endlessly trying to feel safe and cared, the state that is so strange to us. Most of the time regulating your thoughts and emotions, most of the days loosing good quality of life.
It can pass many years before we start getting appropriate treatment. We undergo additional traumas or live an isolated lifestyle, self harm or addict to substances to escape from the unbearable pain.
My way to recovery started 5 years ago and I faced lots of challenges. No support, No understanding, No professional competence of doctors. No hope.
SO
I decided not only to get out of this hell but to help others like me. I researched a lot and managed to achieve some progress. And I started studying Clinical Psychology.
It's been almost a year since I found you, the community that helped me to feel that I am not alone in the struggle. Reading your stories relived my pain as if it was me who managed to write out the silent scream inside. Trying to support you was also powerful cure for me. I am from non-English speaking country but I always feel as though we speak common language. Language of pain and despair, hope and compassion.
Now I am preparing a presentation on CPTSD which aims to provide information about this disorder. The phenomenon that is misdiagnosed here and underrated. I strive to make people who are not mental health specialists aware that the way we think and behave has logical backround ( I will talk about neurobilogy, trauma history, coping strategies etc.) and to show psychologists and psychitriats what is behind the listed criteria of CPTSD. I want them to feel at least for some momemt what we feel.
So I would highly appreciate if you shared your stories so I could include them in my presentation. The same stories as we share here but lets give them hear us. Please send your short videos (you can cover your faces) or recordings to email removed, project has ended.
I understand because of worries that you can be seen (surely I will not share my presentation beyond my environment) I have little chance to receive anything. But i do believe that miracles happen)
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