Hi. Happy to be here to share and care. The writing below is an excerpt from something I wrote on another ptsd help site after being chided for "giving advice". It sums up my thoughts on why I myself am suffering and why I think many others are suffering. It's not meant to be e offensive...it's just ideas. It's ok to disagree with ideas. Sharing different ideas and viewpoints is healthy even if they are unpopular. Here's the excerpt:
Seeing as this is a help site, it stands to reason that we'd try to help one another by encouraging some kind of action to elevate us out of the doldrums. If all we do is say "I'm sorry you're not feeling well" "we're all in this together" or other generalized quips that give the illusion of helping, that's not actually helping. Kind of like saying "I'll pray for you" which only helps the pray-er feel as though they've actually done something to help, when in reality all they've done is soothed themselves by imagining their thoughts are virtuous and have some kind of magical healing power.
At some point in our history timeline we've begin favoring abstracts to material action. We've become obsessed with feelings as opposed to action. We've become obsessed with watching others do things or talking about doing things instead of putting our bodies into action to truly help ourselves for self preservation and longevity.
When we as beings with physical vulnerability favor feelings, put emphasis on them as having the power to cripple us, this weakens us physically. The nouveau concept of validating every feeling weakens us. One's that hinder actual progress on a task are like a sword in the foot. Feelings that foster productive action are the ones that promote strength and longevity.
Advocating for more focus on feelings is an infinite fail loop. entities that exist solely for that...certain support groups, non-profits, inept therapists and counselors that've popped up en masse to get paid to listen to people talk about their feelings and praise/validate them, aren't helping, they're grifting. It stands to reason that if feelings are debilitating us then a healthy goal is to curb depth of feeling, or focus on action, productivity to help our bodies and minds.
I'm thinking about the advent of vilifying hate, pushing for blanket acceptance of any and all, portraying self-serving degenerative behavior as being acceptable if someone claims to have a condition or "good reasons", being affirming and accommodating of regressive behaviors to spare hurt feelings. We're being told we need to be hyper vigilant about feelings and that they should be considered of the utmost importance over logic, reasoning or base survival instincts. We're told calling out certain self-sabotaging behavior is "hateful/harmful" if the behaviors are being done by those with "special needs" "special circumstances" and it "hurts" them to receive criticism or be presented with facts. We're being introduced to concepts, for one, "radical self-acceptance" which often times is interpreted as preferring to accept flaws as unchangeable instead of trying to correct them or better ourselves.
All this messaging were seeing throughout social media, mental health journals, put into school curricula about what we "should" do in order to be considered good or caring people, imo are strategically being promoted to infuse society with messaging that uses social control to enforce our exponential weakening and takeover by entities whose goal is to debilitate the majority of society while they (a small select group) grow stronger. We swallow their programming and metaphorical poison for fear of being vilified as "hateful" being sued for "hate speech", or being socially ostracized.
Now some might say why is she posting this on a ptsd forum?!? This is inappropriate! But I say it's totally appropriate because I think we, as a society, are being gaslit into believing that weakening ourselves is a virtue. This goes against our base primal survival instincts. Our subconscious can sense the danger...it's innate in us.
So because we're being told we have to submit to the weakening our fight or flight is triggered. We self soothe via escapism in various forms, alcoholism, porn addiction, professional sports obsession, gambling, drugs, social media addiction, gaming, shopping addiction, food addiction the list goes on and on and on. All subverting us from pulling out of denial about this current human condition. People stay in denial either out of dependence on the escapism of choice or because the truth is more than they can tolerate emotionally, especially if they feel powerless to do anything about it. I think people who are trapped in bubbles of affirmation who want to impart warning but are threatened with life ruination if they express it have C-PTSD, I think those who are emerging from denial have c-ptsd. I think many of the people on this forum are lost and confused and this may be a reason why for some. Some can't pinpoint why they're depressed, anxious, distressed, and often it's blamed on mental health issues. We, the sufferers of the gaslighting are told we are the problem, our brains aren't functioning correctly. I'm saying the c-ptsd is a normal and reasonable response to this covertly enforced global thought control.
It's ok to disagree. I just like sharing ideas. I realize many of the thoughts I've shared are fledgling and not fully developed. Happy to receive feedback. Thanks for reading.
Seeing as this is a help site, it stands to reason that we'd try to help one another by encouraging some kind of action to elevate us out of the doldrums. If all we do is say "I'm sorry you're not feeling well" "we're all in this together" or other generalized quips that give the illusion of helping, that's not actually helping. Kind of like saying "I'll pray for you" which only helps the pray-er feel as though they've actually done something to help, when in reality all they've done is soothed themselves by imagining their thoughts are virtuous and have some kind of magical healing power.
At some point in our history timeline we've begin favoring abstracts to material action. We've become obsessed with feelings as opposed to action. We've become obsessed with watching others do things or talking about doing things instead of putting our bodies into action to truly help ourselves for self preservation and longevity.
When we as beings with physical vulnerability favor feelings, put emphasis on them as having the power to cripple us, this weakens us physically. The nouveau concept of validating every feeling weakens us. One's that hinder actual progress on a task are like a sword in the foot. Feelings that foster productive action are the ones that promote strength and longevity.
Advocating for more focus on feelings is an infinite fail loop. entities that exist solely for that...certain support groups, non-profits, inept therapists and counselors that've popped up en masse to get paid to listen to people talk about their feelings and praise/validate them, aren't helping, they're grifting. It stands to reason that if feelings are debilitating us then a healthy goal is to curb depth of feeling, or focus on action, productivity to help our bodies and minds.
I'm thinking about the advent of vilifying hate, pushing for blanket acceptance of any and all, portraying self-serving degenerative behavior as being acceptable if someone claims to have a condition or "good reasons", being affirming and accommodating of regressive behaviors to spare hurt feelings. We're being told we need to be hyper vigilant about feelings and that they should be considered of the utmost importance over logic, reasoning or base survival instincts. We're told calling out certain self-sabotaging behavior is "hateful/harmful" if the behaviors are being done by those with "special needs" "special circumstances" and it "hurts" them to receive criticism or be presented with facts. We're being introduced to concepts, for one, "radical self-acceptance" which often times is interpreted as preferring to accept flaws as unchangeable instead of trying to correct them or better ourselves.
All this messaging were seeing throughout social media, mental health journals, put into school curricula about what we "should" do in order to be considered good or caring people, imo are strategically being promoted to infuse society with messaging that uses social control to enforce our exponential weakening and takeover by entities whose goal is to debilitate the majority of society while they (a small select group) grow stronger. We swallow their programming and metaphorical poison for fear of being vilified as "hateful" being sued for "hate speech", or being socially ostracized.
Now some might say why is she posting this on a ptsd forum?!? This is inappropriate! But I say it's totally appropriate because I think we, as a society, are being gaslit into believing that weakening ourselves is a virtue. This goes against our base primal survival instincts. Our subconscious can sense the danger...it's innate in us.
So because we're being told we have to submit to the weakening our fight or flight is triggered. We self soothe via escapism in various forms, alcoholism, porn addiction, professional sports obsession, gambling, drugs, social media addiction, gaming, shopping addiction, food addiction the list goes on and on and on. All subverting us from pulling out of denial about this current human condition. People stay in denial either out of dependence on the escapism of choice or because the truth is more than they can tolerate emotionally, especially if they feel powerless to do anything about it. I think people who are trapped in bubbles of affirmation who want to impart warning but are threatened with life ruination if they express it have C-PTSD, I think those who are emerging from denial have c-ptsd. I think many of the people on this forum are lost and confused and this may be a reason why for some. Some can't pinpoint why they're depressed, anxious, distressed, and often it's blamed on mental health issues. We, the sufferers of the gaslighting are told we are the problem, our brains aren't functioning correctly. I'm saying the c-ptsd is a normal and reasonable response to this covertly enforced global thought control.
It's ok to disagree. I just like sharing ideas. I realize many of the thoughts I've shared are fledgling and not fully developed. Happy to receive feedback. Thanks for reading.