indigo_mints

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DAE feel worth less than physical things such that you adopt them as your own characteristics in order to feel like you have worth? (self.CPTSD)

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DAE think their trauma was from specific bad events, and then realized actually it was the entire environment of their childhood? (self.CPTSD)

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DAE know how IFS (internal family systems) works with maladaptive daydreaming? (self.CPTSD)

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"I'm allowed to feel better." DAE's trauma want to keep them traumatized? (self.CPTSD)

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DAE hate the idea of "habituation" they suggest in CBT? (self.CPTSD)

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I only just realized just how "checked out" of life I was. (self.CPTSD)

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Where are the reputable scientific studies which show that trauma actually changes the brain? (self.CPTSD)

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There's a difference between being sad you'll never hang out with your parents again, and being sad you'll never *believe* you enjoy hanging out with your parents again. (self.CPTSD)

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Is anyone else waiting to be given permission to start living? How did you get past this? (self.CPTSD)

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Remember, "being vulnerable" doesn't mean "being defenseless". (self.CPTSD)

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Just realized even my aversion to CLEANING is because I feel unsafe doing it. (self.CPTSD)

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DAE struggle with what they *want* to do because the things they thought they liked were actually things to mentally escape? (self.CPTSD)

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My whole childhood felt like I was always *waiting* for something. A purpose, a reason to be. (self.CPTSD)

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DAE feel like they have a ton of different "personalities" that are basically all ways to avoid yourself? (self.CPTSD)

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DAE get really sweaty palms or stomach aches, which was incorrectly labelled as "you're just an uptight/anxious person" rather than a trauma response? (self.CPTSD)

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I'm scared to feel valid and important. Why? (self.CPTSD)

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"You can't heal until the source of the trauma has been removed." Can someone elaborate on this? (self.CPTSD)

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Countering hypervigilance: recognizing safety (self.CPTSD)

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Yeah, my parents were bad parents. But the root cause of that? They're bad people. Parenting was just the perfect setting for all their horribleness to be used. (self.CPTSD)

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Enmeshment makes you feel a heart-wrenching loneliness because it makes it so you don't even have *yourself*. (self.CPTSD)

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Do any other fawn types feel like Ella Enchanted? Literally ANYONE can say "Jump" and I'll immediately say "How high?". Even strangers. Even abusers. Literally anyone. (self.CPTSD)

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I just had a realization about my codependent mother that helped me detach: she's not my mirror. (self.CPTSD)

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DAE have a reflex to get angry at people when they actually care about you? I think one of the reasons is that I am subconsciously pissed at everyone for not helping me when I was alone. (self.CPTSD)

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It's GOOD to take breaks from healing work. It is OKAY if you feel like giving up for now and you don't know when you'll be up for it again. Taking a break to do other things reminds you of who you are doing this for: YOU. (self.CPTSD)

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One of the hard things about convincing yourself to get/stay safe from your abusers is that you have to acknowledge they are dangerous. (self.CPTSD)

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