#ActuallyPTSD

[unstablemotions]

Hey, you! You who suspect you might have PTSD, DID or another trauma disorder, but you think you didn't experience trauma "bad enough" to have developed a mental disorder from it? Let me suggest looking at it differently:

"If there's smoke, there's fire"

Do you experience symptoms of PTSD, such as hypervigilance, trouble sleeping, flashbacks, memory problems, dissociation, ect? Then yes, it was "bad enough". Maybe you don't remember anything "really bad" happening or you don't "feel like" it affects you, but listen to your body. The body remembers and the body doesn't care if you think it is "stupid" or "weak" to have a panic attack when someone touches you or that you still have nightmares about that thing you saw when you were 4 years old

Trauma isn't what happened. Trauma is the reaction to what happened. So what I'm trying to say is that if the reason you think you can't have PTSD/DID/OSDD/ect is because you didn't go through anything horrific enough for that, then maybe forget about what happened to you for a moment and just look at the evidence your body and mind are showing. And then, most importantly, be compassionate with yourself. You're going through a lot and it's gonna be okay in the end. Take it easy, okay? <3

[thatadhdfeel]

i know people like to dunk on it but personally i do i find that the whole “take a deep breath” thing can actually be very useful.

reconnecting with your body when you’re overwhelmed is very important (especially if you’re someone who has PTSD — from experience, it helps bring me back to the present.)

take deep breaths for one minute. tap on your leg for a bit and concentrate on the sensation. if you’re physically able to, get up and stretch. this isn’t me saying it’ll work wonders for everyone — but it has a lot of potential to be helpful, if it’s something you have the capacity to do

[subsystems]

About dissociation in childhood, from Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect (pp. 148-150)

[imgoing2kms]

[samvents]

[ID text — The desire to be sicker, to prove that you are sick, itself is indicative of sickness. A well person does not desire to be sick]

[wingedbeings]

[tachylyte]

every person with ptsd should be allowed to kill at least one person who fucked them up per year. it would improve my mental health

[iwillbreakyourfuckingskull]

when you realise you're actually constantly experiencing flashbacks when you thought it was just anxiety

[traumatizeddfox]

[webkinzpossum]

[salmonandsoup]

YA BOY HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY DIAGNOSED

we got that wombo combo

AUTISM AND PTSD BAYBEEEEEEE

[unstablemotions]

Every book about PTSD will repeatedly mention how your personality will change after the traumatic event. How this is an indicator that you have the disorder. How this is a universal experience for everyone who suffers from post traumatic stress.

But I never got to have a life before trauma. That person was killed before they were alive. All that remains is a broken shell from where a child was ripped out with violent teeth.

I didn't change from my trauma, because I never existed before it began.

[phoenix-positivity]

I think the difficult thing with trauma responses and fears is that when people try to comfort you by saying your fears wont happen is that: well actually, they did happen? Why would they not happen again? I have no reason to believe they wont. I want to prepare myself for when they happen again. And the advice of 'Don't assume people are out to get you and hurt you' is so hard to believe because you've experienced that actually, people were out there to hurt you. It's so hard to regain trust in people once it's been broken.

[subsystems]

Infographics from Beauty After Bruises's article on complex post traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) and dissociative identity disorder (DID). Please read the full article here!

[punkeropercyjackson]

I get that online groomers are a very real and large danger but it's nuts how often adults being friends with kids is turned into pedojacking by adults who're like.ACTIVELY hostile towards minors in fandoms and i mean both the ageist bullying and even just the extremely unnecessarily aggressive 'minors dni' disclaimers they do that may as be monologues.Like in my case the reason i have so many close intergenerational friendships is that i was always taught it's good for people of widely different ages to love eachother as long as it's platonic/familial as it builds a sense of community and helps out in child safety and i'm an eldest sibling so i've been hanging out with younger people like we're best friends my whole life and i'm buds with older people too and the whole reason i'm here is that in elementary school i had a high school friend that taught me english.Again,you need to tell kids what grooming and explotation and other such things are so they can avoid abusers,not that adults shouldn't care about them fullstop.That's VERY cruel and ironically enough opens them up to grooming itself by isolating them!Please,for the love of fuck,just treat kids like kids.If you're friends with them be their caretaker instead of the reverse because that's how it's supposed to be and if you don't want to be near keep that shit to yourself because they ain't doin' nothing to you.Freak-os

[samvents]

[ID text — i begged God to save me and he shoved more torment down my throat to keep me quiet]