Hi all! Off the top, I'm not good at hello's, or goodbyes. So please bear with me as I say hello...
I'm so excited to be able to join this forum. I'm very old, so therefore appreciate this high-tech ability to communicate virtually! Well maybe not that old, depending on your perspective - 61 years old.
I have CPTSD and look forward to the new way of describing it as a reaction rather than my illness. This forum is the first time I've seen that option. How promising! Imagine a world where mental illness is seen as a reaction to a problemed world, rather than mental illness being a big problem in the healthy world. Maybe we are simply the symptom of a diseased world - the canaries in the mine? But there is still a lot of beauty in the world too, as there is still a lot of beauty in the mentally ill.
I'm here because I have CPTSD developed from childhood trauma. As a result, due to chronic dissociation from my body and medical illnesses as well as medical and psychiatric treatments, I can now barely stand or walk, as of 2-1/2 years ago. This immobility has thrown me back into traumatic memories because my current situation is very, very reminiscent of my traumatic childhood. I'd like to start there on this forum, by exploring those similarities, and work through them.
I'd also love to be able to be here for others. I've done a variety of therapies in the past, so I have wonderful tools that I'm using now to get through this terrible patch. What I'm lacking is peer support. I hope we're a good match here.
Thank you for listening.
I'm so excited to be able to join this forum. I'm very old, so therefore appreciate this high-tech ability to communicate virtually! Well maybe not that old, depending on your perspective - 61 years old.
I have CPTSD and look forward to the new way of describing it as a reaction rather than my illness. This forum is the first time I've seen that option. How promising! Imagine a world where mental illness is seen as a reaction to a problemed world, rather than mental illness being a big problem in the healthy world. Maybe we are simply the symptom of a diseased world - the canaries in the mine? But there is still a lot of beauty in the world too, as there is still a lot of beauty in the mentally ill.
I'm here because I have CPTSD developed from childhood trauma. As a result, due to chronic dissociation from my body and medical illnesses as well as medical and psychiatric treatments, I can now barely stand or walk, as of 2-1/2 years ago. This immobility has thrown me back into traumatic memories because my current situation is very, very reminiscent of my traumatic childhood. I'd like to start there on this forum, by exploring those similarities, and work through them.
I'd also love to be able to be here for others. I've done a variety of therapies in the past, so I have wonderful tools that I'm using now to get through this terrible patch. What I'm lacking is peer support. I hope we're a good match here.
Thank you for listening.