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Has anyone here ever tried to piece together their life by acquiring as much as possible of official paperwork (papers and journals from medical/psychiatric history, schools, social services, court cases, etc)?
There's no one who's been present through all of my upbringing, and the one person who gets the closest is my mother and she's over half the reason I have PTSD and probably the least reliable person I ever met, AND I haven't talked to her in 4 years. My own memory is shit. All my relatives are chaotic and all the relations going on in there are chaotic, and I barely talk to any of them. My case from child services is kinda...shady and questionable. Etc. So there's not really any consistend thread going from any starting point to any endpoint, it's just a mess, and I've started the process of trying to piece it more together through paperwork now - by trying to get ahold of some old mental healthcare paperwork.
So I'm just wondering if anyone has done a similar thing for similar reasons? What was your process, how'd it go, any pits of "OH SHIT BAD IDEA" you encountered that I should be aware of the risk of? Aside from the obvious high chance of triggering the crap out of my PTSD by digging into this stuff.
There's no one who's been present through all of my upbringing, and the one person who gets the closest is my mother and she's over half the reason I have PTSD and probably the least reliable person I ever met, AND I haven't talked to her in 4 years. My own memory is shit. All my relatives are chaotic and all the relations going on in there are chaotic, and I barely talk to any of them. My case from child services is kinda...shady and questionable. Etc. So there's not really any consistend thread going from any starting point to any endpoint, it's just a mess, and I've started the process of trying to piece it more together through paperwork now - by trying to get ahold of some old mental healthcare paperwork.
So I'm just wondering if anyone has done a similar thing for similar reasons? What was your process, how'd it go, any pits of "OH SHIT BAD IDEA" you encountered that I should be aware of the risk of? Aside from the obvious high chance of triggering the crap out of my PTSD by digging into this stuff.