Tag: trauma

I Lost Everything & Found What Matters

I Lost Everything & Found What Matters

In the past year and a bit, I lost everything but I found what matters. For all the bad, there’s been a lot of good too. Emotionally and mentally, I feel better than I have in a really long time. The upside of getting sick and then the arrival of Covid? I finally felt like …

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PTSD: Mental Illness or Nervous System Disorder?

PTSD: Mental Illness or Nervous System Disorder?

I’m not a doctor or a psychologist, I just have cPTSD and MS (I like to overachieve). Trying to cope with and recover as best I can from both, I’ve started to wonder if PTSD is more a nervous system disorder than the mental illness it’s considered. Hear me out on this… Folks who don’t …

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I Don’t Matter: Complex PTSD from the aftermath?

I Don’t Matter: Complex PTSD from the aftermath?

Once upon a time, I held a deep core belief that I don’t really matter. Believing that I didn’t matter wasn’t a character flaw, it was conditioning. There were no consequences for the horrible caregivers and kids at school who bullied me on a whole other level of cruelty. In fact, it seemed to be …

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