You know you have complex trauma when......

[April34]

You know you have complex trauma when you expand your social network in real life by three but have...

This is more true than you know!!!!

 

[Justmehere]

When you feel like you must do that thing right now because then you will feel slightly safer... and no one around you gets it.

 

[SunflowerHoney]

When you feel like you must do that thing right now because then you will feel slightly safer... and no one around you gets it.

I wish I could "like" this one a thousand times!

 

[SunflowerHoney]

You know you have complex trauma when you expand your social network in real life by three but have difficulty adapting to the increased stress/pressure of interactions because it is exhausting and you spend a couple to several hours every single day to manage before you met them.

The struggle is REAL. And the friends don't have any idea how much energy it takes to prepare for socializing. Or they don't get it!

 

[tontoe]

You spend your childhood wishing to be an adult, and spend your adulthood feeling like the child.[/Q...

As a newbie browsing this thread, lots of things ring true and some make me smile, but the above really captures the irony of my situation - couldn't wait to be an adult when I was a child and... decades later... still can't!

 

[BloomInWinter]

You know you have complex trauma when your therapist begins speaking and it triggers yet another trauma memory which wasn't even the topic he was discussing.

When one trauma led to skills in a hobby that you can't use unless you're triggered into that fragment of yourself.

 

[Ronin]

When you reteach yourself skills you can access in other states because not being ready is an issue for you.

And explaining why you're doing that would require explaining complex trauma that you're on most happier pretending isn't as tangled as is.

 

[void]

......when you have been at this for decades and you are still discovering new ways in which you are fvcked up.:banghead::blackeye::banghead::grumpy::grumpy::grumpy:

 

[Ronin]

you are still discovering new ways

When you're happy about having a clue what & where exactly is wrong, finally, as that makes looking for a patch easier :D :shifty:

 

[Lopezwhere'sthefire]

..when you have piecemeal symptoms of ptsd, c-ptsd, and bpd, but feel like you are the only one with your unique mix. Makes you really doubt if you have really identified the problem or still clueless, I think that's the hallmark of c-ptsd.

 

[The ANP]

You know you have complex trauma when you realize that you are not who you thought you were.
When you...

Spot on

 

[The ANP]

You know you have complex trauma because whenever you pull on a memory thread and new hairball come up to choke you