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I have been watching “Queens Gambit” on netflicks, so I find this pic funny. Yea nothing to do with the post but entertaining for me. That’s an active PTSD brain functioning, I think. The Jethro Tull t-shirt completes the picture.
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My childhood Abuse haunts me, it was hard wired into my brain and nervous system before it developed.
It is like a bad dream when it is awakened, it is intertwined with our brains normal development. It existed before some parts of our brain matured.
It is highly irrational by definition and ever so confusing.
I never had a healthy ego, autonomy, or even safety in my entire childhood. There is no core, no resilient piece developed, I functioned in survival mode.
Many healthy circuits are ignored and thus damaging our chances of ever being normal. Survival mode, means high alert, spotting danger replaces any creative endeavors, building deep attachments etc.
If you follow this blog, you have seen me as a crusader of healing and then other times like now, you have also seen me in the abyss of active suffering from PTSD.
It is a battle, those who suffer from childhood abuse, physical, emotional or even rape know the nightmare they live.
Our trauma scares the shit out of us, commandeers our nervous system, then floods our minds with intrusive thoughts.
My healing was like a war zone. Violent exits of childhood trauma that I finally integrated were the best feelings.
Then in a few days more trauma arrived. After five years of daily, 8 plus hours of meditation, reading and applying every healing technique I could find, it was frustrating to have more abuse always surface.
It seemed it was limitless and finding peace impossible.
My optimum space for healing, found me totally focused on my effort.
If things got worse, I practiced more.
Another big advantage, I learned from being a pro athlete.
We worked out five months in the offseason without worrying about results until next season.
Childhood PTSD (C-PTSD) is not going to change much in a day, a week, or a month, so I placed all worry or concern into more practice, more effort.
Worrying is a nasty form of Dissociation, our biggest enemy stopping us from improving.
No great direction in this post. My posts are so different when my PTSD is active or dormant.
It feels a little vulnerable sharing when my ptsd is this active.
Thoughts?
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