traumasurvivors: After trauma, it’s not a matter of getting back to who you were. It’s a matter of accepting that you’ve changed. And that’s okay. You can be who you want to be in your own time. 💛
Tag Archives: trauma
daddy-doms-are-gross: you people do realize that just because licensed conversion therapy is illegal in some states it’s not like…magically not a problem anymore right? like the laws in most states only ban licensed or medically affiliated conversion therapy. Ex-gay “ministries” and other religiously affiliated or unlicensed groups can still market conversion services in states like California, …
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melblogsgfreethruptsd: What are body memories? Your body, believe it or not, remembers everything. Sounds, smells, touches, tastes. But the memory is not held in your mind, locked somewhere in the recesses of your brain. Instead, it’s held in your body, all the way down at the cellular level. Ever notice how, on a stage full …
furiousgoldfish: your brain on trauma: how about we only vaguely remember this event, and we can’t be sure if we made it up or dreamed it (if we say it out loud other people will accuse us of making it up or dreaming it so better we assume that on our own) or if it …
karenopico: There needs to be more talk about trauma related numbness. When you have doubtlessly disturbing memories and feel nothing, when you can’t cry, when you express dissociated statements in relation to the trauma such as “well it wasn’t me” “i don’t even know what happened” “it doesn’t matter anymore”. this dissociative numbness often translates into …
fyrinn: actuallysadistic: actuallysadistic: “everyone’s been through trauma!” no, no they haven’t. hardship ≠ trauma. trauma is described by the dsm as “outside the normal range of human experiences” OUTSIDE. THE NORMAL RANGE. OF HUMAN EXPERIENCES Hardship is difficult. Trauma is an open wound that never heals. You can get past hardship. Trauma is something you’ll …
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ocimum-rose: vulture-horticulture: Let me get this straight with all you invalidating ableist fuckwits. Trauma is not “something bad that happened to you”. It’s not “a bad experience” or “a problem you once had”. Trauma is a literal scar on your brain. Trauma is a life-changing experience that leaves a different person in its wake. A traumatic experience or …
sustainablefarming: realizing that an experience was actually traumatizing
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