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How Trauma Can Paralyze You



How Trauma Can Paralyze You

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  2. @davidpeat184 on

    Does anyone else feel like their PTSD isn’t valid? I don’t know if it’s just me, but I almost feel like it’s an excuse. I didn’t fight in war, I’ve not seen people die in front of me, so who am I to have PTSD?

    It’s really fucking tiring to feel this way.

  3. @matticus7584 on

    I have cptsd and bipolar (being treated) and I find myself hoping for a negative experience to justify my feelings; to be a hero of some sorts and give myself purpose instead of suffering

  7. @wolfkiller2211 on

    Yeah like why bother if there's an entropy.
    I exist this way for years watching my family members die, my home crumble and my body withering.
    But I intend to change.

  9. @CatEyedGoddess on

    Action paralysis. Yeah, me standing in my kitchen for an hour trying to force myself to clean. Me starting at my computer screen for hours trying to get my brain to focus on simply starting and let’s not go into the fact that I should be making six figures but instead I make half because I can’t get my ish together. I look at ppl who get stuff done in awe and wonder, thinking all the whole, “Why can’t I do that?! Why can’t I just get ish done.” It’s like a mental prison you can’t escape no matter what, years, opportunities, and experiences wasted.

  10. @calciferatemyhomework on

    For me it’s like I spent the first 20 years of my life waiting to get out of my childhood home. I coped by daydreaming about how much better my future life would be once I moved out. I had such big goals and ambitions. But even now that I’m ‘free’ I have this terrible habit of daydreaming and waiting instead of taking action on anything. Even being aware of this hasn’t helped that much. Staying in the daydream is just so much more comforting.

  18. @booperdee2 on

    what do you do when after years of this mindset, you finally are able to become a self-starter, only for a few months later to all fall apart and lock you back up again. its not from rejection, but total random chance that takes away everything i was building. how am i expected to try again, especially when it wont be over for up to 10 more years?

  21. @Callum38 on

    This is the state of being for the majority of people on earth. To be able to plan well for the future beyond survival is an incredible privilege. Anybody who has experienced real poverty knows, and poverty+traumaabuse more often than not go hand in hand.

  22. @kaystephens2672 on

    I looked back to see where that idea came from. In my case, an adopted child who had a mental disability. My first traumatic memory was because of his lying and always blaming me. Hes 65 years old now and still blames everybody but himself for everything. Takes no consequence. I believe that in our childhood we just got stuck somewhere. Im always waiting for him to screw up something that will put me in jeapoardy. I think so idiot in our past caused this. In my case, his parents who are gone now, but had no idea of the negative impact of the dumb choices to ever try to raise me with a child with no empathy. I'm so disappointed in my parents. But I figured it out and I'll always believe how I feel before any bs some fool says. Good intentions but a very unsmart idea folks.

  23. @beegeesquirrel on

    Honestly i feel like this is going to be my life forever. I just don't know how i can get out of survival mode. I am on my own, i am scared of bad things happening. what will i do? i am constantly thinking and trying to fix things in my head, i dont live in the present, i just live somewhere in my head. I keep forgetting things. i went to on holidays by myself a while ago and i didnt enjoy it. preparing everything was such a task, getting to the hotel was such an accomplishment for me. i had to force myself to go outside. waste of money. i just cant enjoy anything anymore.

  27. @Tstopmotion on

    I know someone like this. They have a therapist for PTSD of war violence when their building was bombed. Is there anything I can do as a colleague to help? Not that I can interfere with their personal life, but how best to interact with them in the workplace?

  36. @shrutisharda5270 on

    ummm great, we identified the problem..is there second part to this video suggesting solution to overcome this. Doctor, please make two parts of the topic, one where we realise the problem by associating with it, and second video, where we understand the next steps to move and how do we resolve the situation. please. help.

  38. @julieleong348 on

    This is exactly what I caught myself living in the circle of coping with what worst things will occur, and it really seems like living is just surviving, to fight and to survive and to protect myself from another storm. I really do not see that I can have any achievements in life.

  42. @janernest414 on

    When you survive you want to be able to protect yourself from any other threat as you know it is ultimate priority to keep living.. to survive… it limits and takes so much from experiencing and living a life … oh

  44. @cryptidian3530 on

    Yep, me. It's been like this for almost a decade now. Barely worked during this time and all the jobs I had were through connections/family, nothing long term because the jobs sucked or were simply short term jobs and I am just surviving every day. I have health problems that seem to be piling up over the years, really no future, just making it to the end of the day.

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