True story time. In 2014, I shared my dirty little secret with my therapist. “I don’t like helping people.” Yes, I – who considers myself a servant to my Complex-PTSD community and gets much satisfaction from doing so – once said and fully believed my own words. That’s how severe my self-abandonment programming once was. …
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For most of us, we tend to be adults once we learn that we have Complex-PTSD. And as adults slammed with this diagnosis, we also tend to be busy handling our adult responsibilities. We have jobs, home maintenance, errands to run, and if we have kids, we have even more adult responsibilities. We certainly want …
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In our Complex-PTSD community, we tend to get excited when we find the right tools. Our first instinct is to share what works with everyone else. It’s certainly well-meaning. We just want to save others the time and trouble it took us to find it. But we forget the time and trouble was what led …
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