Insights
The Push Pull Dynamic Within
I’m odd. I want to be close to other people, and can sometimes allow myself to be. I also want to be alone, and as soon as somebody seems to want to spend time with me, I revolt. Why do I do this? The people that I trusted the most betrayed me, Stabbed me in
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Complex PTSD – Bringing the Past into the Present
I keep having these thoughts that I need to stop obsessing over my family. Then I remind myself that I’m not obsessing, I have Complex PTSD (cptsd). The nature of cptsd is that our traumatic past keeps a hold on us, not the other way around. It’s not that we can’t let go of the
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I’m Having an Emotional Flashback
Not feeling so good this morning. I feel less than and like I’m not good enough. I’m having an emotional flashback. I always try to figure out what triggered me to feel this way. It helps me to understand myself and my cptsd better. Before I started feeling this way I was telling myself that
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What is a Trigger?
Triggers are something that reminds you of your trauma and causes you to feel the emotions you felt at the time of your trauma. This is called an emotional flashback. Triggers can be a person, place, thing, event, smell, taste, sound, feeling, the look on a person’s face, the way a person expresses themselves, etc.
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