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PTSD uses certain emotions to gain control, yes it’s part of the Thinker, our Ego.
Our Ego wants total control, even in a person with no history of abuse. We are easy targets when the Ego has PTSD as a weapon or when PTSD has the Ego to dominate. Pick your poison.
PTSD brings guilt to our core. Why should we ever feel guilty for being abused, yes it’s all irrational.
PTSD distorts time, memory and our sanity.
Fear of the unknown, what’s going to happen, when is the next tragedy for us, reverberates within traumas thoughts. We are always on guard, danger is close, we sense.
Trauma, PTSD, has created an alternate world that has no safety or wellbeing for us. We live in a world influenced by things out of our consciousness, PTSD.
We can get trapped inside our thoughts and feelings without realizing it. No one is going to understand.
That’s the other sad part about childhood abuse, none of your friends or enemies will ever know the hell we endure. They will feel helpless not being able to stop our suffering.
Then, there is the fear, the doom, the knowing that things have never turned out ok for us.
Our memories are like Swiss cheese. A child without abuse has a vivid memory of childhood.
We have spotty, violent nightmares, emotionally devastating snippets of abuse called memory.
Good memories are not accessible for me, my memories are of abusé, loss and betrayal. If I have good memories, I am not aware of them.
That’s sad, as I read it.
So looking back has nothing but suffering for me and probably you.
We carry all the fear and ways to escape our abuser into adulthood subconsciously.
Anyone who slightly resembles my fathers behavior, jolts my nervous system.
What do you carry with you?
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Posted by Marty on February 25, 2021 at 2:32 pm
The last couple of days have run together.
Time has been distorted and memory is like mush, all cloudy
It feels like I have been damaged or something lost
PTSD is so abstract and confusing when it hits tilt at times
It’s like being haunted by a ghost
A ghost we fear the most
We constantly need to come back to reality
Discount the trauma thoughts