PTSD and poverty

[SeekingAfrica]

Anyone going through both, tips? How to survive, how to stay positive, how to do better?
I was born poor but PTSD wasn't part of the plan obviously. I was meant to get educated and raise above, for my family.

How do I get through this? Never planned on this after uni, on agoraphobia and panic being outside and relearning everything.

And ever since I've tried to manage my mental health it feels like I'm getting messier instead of better...

Anyone?

 

[Ecdysis]

Oh yeah, it's horrible.

I started a thread on it a while ago... I find that one feeds off the other and vice-versa (mental illness and poverty)

Poverty as a contributing factor in childhood trauma/ poverty in adult trauma/ poverty as a result of disability and PTSD from trauma/ stigma & shame

I've just started doing some financial counselling re budgets and debt and am finding it triggery as all heck. A lot of that is because of the role poverty played in my childhood trauma (neglect, deprivation and also that it was a stressor on my parents which increased their neglectful and...

www.myptsd.com