Friday
Moderator
Because those parts don’t apply.You’ve highlighted those sentences above yes, but have failed to acknowledge the parts where they’re also like “give it time”, “I encourage you to try it”, or “it’ll take a while”, “eventually it’ll catch up with you” and other likewise things etc etc.
If someone gives you 3 options, and 1 of them is not useful to you? And the other 2 are? Why fixate on the 1 option that’s not useful and ignore the parts that speak directly to what you’re looking for? UNLESS you’re all geared up for a fight, that makes zero sense. 3 totally different options, but the only thing you care about, and spend time replying to, is the one you don’t want? That’s backwards.
Personally, I DGAF if you’re in therapy, or not. I very much doubt anyone else cares if you’re in therapy, or not, but I clearly can’t speak for anyone but myself. And I really couldn’t care less.
I didn’t do therapy the first time I got hit with PTSD, and I sorted my own shit out over time. Took me roughly 5-7 years. The second time around, I decided not to reinvent the wheel & find as many resources as I could, in hopes of shortening that timeline. Shrug. I’ve done it both ways, and there are benefits/drawbacks to each.
For thousands of years “therapy” has simply not been an option... but trauma still happened. And people coped. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. You don’t even have to read Latin or Japanese (with translation software, or full on already translated texts) to be able to learn from the same lessons those people learned, and can still read about lives and methods for dealing with the exact same problems we have today, 2,000 years ago. Or you can reinvent the wheel, and wing it, like I did. Or you can use sites like this and kick knowledge / brainstorm / share what’s worked in your life & what hasn’t, or you can see a trauma therapist, or... whole lotta different options out there.
Fixating on the one option you don’t want, and then deciding what all the rest of us think/feel about it, even when you’re straight up told “Nope. That’s not what I said, & not what I think/feel about it.” isn’t US not listening to you.
Seriously... take what’s useful to you. The rest doesn’t matter.