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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by RedNajm@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net
 

I don't know if this should be in neurodiverse or another place so I apologize, regardless I'm only posting since I just want to get it off my chest and this is the only place I can talk about it at this time.

But fuck, it sucks to have to live with CPTSD. I can last days where I'm mostly (relative to, of course) normal and almost forget about it, but then it wrecks and hits me like a freight train. I havent been able to sleep almost at all for the past week due to not being able to stop thinking about shit in the past, and a whole slew of other effects that comes with it, but the sllep one is the most annoying one for me right now.

Have a cute picture though doggirl-sleep

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[–] PowerLurker@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

meow-hug it's a tough road, my friend. my partner almost certainly has it, and in researching it with her i've started to suspect i at least have a higher-than-average amount of the traits of cPTSD as well. i'm not sure if i qualify for a full diagnosis, but i'm also increasingly wondering if that matters so much: mental disorders are mostly just the language we build on top of clusters of symptoms/challenges/patterns of thought and behavior that impede functioning & happiness, and those individual issues/patterns & their causes mean a lot more to me than the words we use as short hands.

healing is possible, but it's never gonna be perfect or linear. in me & my partners case, each of us having started with individual trauma informed therapists does help a lot (though i realize there are massive systemic barriers to entry for that so more informal & self-directed ways to tackle the disorder are very valid).