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Hiding trauma and PTSD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Warrior Chicken" data-source="post: 1685864" data-attributes="member: 43639"><p>Absolutely understand and identify with the feelings about hiding PTSD (even the length of time you've hidden). </p><p>Deserving of a longer response - which I can't muster....and not knowing when I will.....writing what I can now.</p><p></p><p>With new job in child protection - things to consider:</p><p>- Your own level of resiliency being able to deal with those who will question your professional ability because of their own misconceptions and ignorance about mental health. Can you manage those attitudes/opinions now if you start off by disclosing PTSD?</p><p></p><p>- If you feel the new team you'll work with has a good grasp on mental health and its complexities......that they accept everyone has a past and that past can be filled with pleasant and troubling memories that have the ability to greatly assist the work being done. IE - I work in the security sector and we have consulted with individuals who have survived human trafficking - even so far as to bring them in to the investigation to be the first contact with those who were trafficked. These people were absolutely the BEST to initiate conversation and carry it, because they'd BEEN there. Knew how to connect on the deepest level to get the help those who were trafficked deserved. The work could not have been done to the same success without them. But they were accepted and supported by the entire team from day 1.</p><p></p><p>- If you're unsure about the new team. Consider getting to know them first. When you intervene on cases with vulnerable children - you can use your skills/understanding/experience to connect with these children without announcing you have PTSD. Those colleagues with you on those calls might pick up subtleties and put pieces together.....you can choose how you respond if they ask (I read a lot, I have a deeper understanding of these issues, I'm passionate about this work, I have PTSD.....YOUR choice to share or not.)</p><p></p><p>More to say for sure.....but hard to peg my brain down long enough currently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warrior Chicken, post: 1685864, member: 43639"] Absolutely understand and identify with the feelings about hiding PTSD (even the length of time you've hidden). Deserving of a longer response - which I can't muster....and not knowing when I will.....writing what I can now. With new job in child protection - things to consider: - Your own level of resiliency being able to deal with those who will question your professional ability because of their own misconceptions and ignorance about mental health. Can you manage those attitudes/opinions now if you start off by disclosing PTSD? - If you feel the new team you'll work with has a good grasp on mental health and its complexities......that they accept everyone has a past and that past can be filled with pleasant and troubling memories that have the ability to greatly assist the work being done. IE - I work in the security sector and we have consulted with individuals who have survived human trafficking - even so far as to bring them in to the investigation to be the first contact with those who were trafficked. These people were absolutely the BEST to initiate conversation and carry it, because they'd BEEN there. Knew how to connect on the deepest level to get the help those who were trafficked deserved. The work could not have been done to the same success without them. But they were accepted and supported by the entire team from day 1. - If you're unsure about the new team. Consider getting to know them first. When you intervene on cases with vulnerable children - you can use your skills/understanding/experience to connect with these children without announcing you have PTSD. Those colleagues with you on those calls might pick up subtleties and put pieces together.....you can choose how you respond if they ask (I read a lot, I have a deeper understanding of these issues, I'm passionate about this work, I have PTSD.....YOUR choice to share or not.) More to say for sure.....but hard to peg my brain down long enough currently. [/QUOTE]
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