What Have You Found Helpful?

[Teasel]

I can certainly see the appeal! @Sideways

Not to get their reaction or anything else, just saying it and feeling safe enough to tell and feeling better each time that I do.

Reminds me of this quote -
Sometimes you just need to talk about something, not to get sympathy or help, but just to kill it's power by allowing the truth of things to hit the air.

Karen Salmansohn

 

[ChildofGod]

replacing compassion for anger and resentments, also forgiving and sometimes even loving some of those who hurt me the most.

thank you for the amazing quote, belinda! I agree!

 

[Teasel]

Saw someone post elsewhere, the best advice they got re c-PTSD "Keep trying doors until you find the way out"

And in the book I'm reading just now "Recovery from Trauma, Addiction, or both"
"Simone – “Turn your face toward the light.” “I really like working on this. I’m early in recovery from trauma and alcohol abuse, and it’s helped me become more positive about that. It’s not easy when you’re stuck in the negative to frame it in a positive way for yourself, but once you can see how other people have done it you can hang on to it and reach for it. When I’m going through dark, difficult times, I remind myself of what someone said to me: ‘The light is over there – all you have to do right in this moment is turn your face toward the light. That’s all you have to do right now; nothing more. You don’t have to walk toward it. Just turn toward it and you’re doing your job.’ And that’s what recovery has been like for me so far. The only way I’ve been able to do it is with that baby step and then people start showing up to help, and I feel like maybe I’ll get there. I’m still on the journey, but I’m getting there. It’s a big life project for me. This chapter gives me a very clear way to keep turning toward the light. I get inspired by other people’s recovery stories and then I feel like it may be possible for me.”

 

[Lionheart]

What helped me a lot was a program called CPT-SA (Cognitive Processing Therapy ---Sexual Abuse) designed especially for men... (there was one for women also). It lasted like 12 weeks and helped me process the abuse traumas. It helped to get me off to a good start in CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy). and also 'Challenging Belief Worksheets." were helpful too. Just keep challenging my beliefs to see if they were true or just a thinking habit. Anyway, those are some things that really helped me.

 

[Rani G2]

Helpful habits, waus of seeing things,

Nothing new from me: For immediate uprising, when hardcore depressive episodes knocks me out, I need to unpack my emergency kit like strategies to overload my sensory apparatus. Running, sport, temperature changes, Yoga (With less spiritual wonderland for me). I also need lots of literature, brain infos, Russell brand talks (Though that guy gets on my nerves at times) Gabor mate, Ewan McEwan, ken loach, Interviews, Yoga and meditation but more the science behind it. Loads of dark humour, anything from death to love.

get inspired by other people’s recovery stories and then I feel like it may be possible for me.”

Yep.. ! Clicks for me too...