Hi Everyone!
I am surviving with PTSD and also happen to be an artist with some success. During most of my forty something years, PTSD has gotten the best of me in my personal and professional life. My PTSD was preventable as it was domestic and sexual abuse as a child. I was tortured as a child by my birth mother. My father was molesting me by the time I was two. In foster care at the age of ten, I was yet again molested.
All of these were preventable. I believe the key to ending the cycle is education combined with the harshest punishment possible. I mean is it really "just", to see someone convicted of shaking a child to death, receive twenty years?
I have to do something to help end child and domestic abuse.
I have searched for a camp for PTSD survivors and the problem I found was that they were predominately sponsored by fundamentalist churches. They don't exactly exude tolerance to those who have had their sexual orientation messed up, from the abuse they survived.
I won't give up and have some awesome support. I just know now that I cannot let my own PTSD, cause me to crash and burn. That comes from being trained as a child and teen that I wasn't worthy of "success". My PTSD seems to cause self destruction but this time, people who love me, are helping me keep it in check.
I know that there is a large percentage of PTSD survivors who are also artists of one sort or another. I believe that the arts can help some survivors heal.
I would like to see a conversation revolving around whether or not people feel that art helps heal, as well as whether a camp for survivors, could help.
Whatever your story, please don't give up! There are people whom you have not even met as of yet, who truly care about you.
Peace, love and hugs to you!
Lethom
I am surviving with PTSD and also happen to be an artist with some success. During most of my forty something years, PTSD has gotten the best of me in my personal and professional life. My PTSD was preventable as it was domestic and sexual abuse as a child. I was tortured as a child by my birth mother. My father was molesting me by the time I was two. In foster care at the age of ten, I was yet again molested.
All of these were preventable. I believe the key to ending the cycle is education combined with the harshest punishment possible. I mean is it really "just", to see someone convicted of shaking a child to death, receive twenty years?
I have to do something to help end child and domestic abuse.
I have searched for a camp for PTSD survivors and the problem I found was that they were predominately sponsored by fundamentalist churches. They don't exactly exude tolerance to those who have had their sexual orientation messed up, from the abuse they survived.
I won't give up and have some awesome support. I just know now that I cannot let my own PTSD, cause me to crash and burn. That comes from being trained as a child and teen that I wasn't worthy of "success". My PTSD seems to cause self destruction but this time, people who love me, are helping me keep it in check.
I know that there is a large percentage of PTSD survivors who are also artists of one sort or another. I believe that the arts can help some survivors heal.
I would like to see a conversation revolving around whether or not people feel that art helps heal, as well as whether a camp for survivors, could help.
Whatever your story, please don't give up! There are people whom you have not even met as of yet, who truly care about you.
Peace, love and hugs to you!
Lethom
