In my experience, it is possible to "recover", and with recovery I mean being able to live an integrated life realizing my wildest dreams and contribute positively to my community. I still get triggered, and still process, but I am living the type of life I want to live. I am not sure "cure" is the best word for me personally in that I wonder sometimes if the depth of damage is so deep that some things may always exist. One learns to be creative and adjust and work with and around whatever challenges may exist in one's system. I think, for some, healing is a life work and one will be working at healing until they take their very last breath.
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General Discussion / Has Anyone Recovered, then Reached out to Support a Sibling?
August 07, 2017, 06:17:52 PM
Hello 
After 23 years of dedicated flow, although still processing, I consider myself recovered from CPTSD and associated conditions with full awareness, that there may be things buried yet to uncover. A sibling has been asking for a number of years (3) if I would join in on the conversation about her care in that she believes she isn't getting the support she needs. Advocacy, I am discovering, is super stressful and I feel like I am wandering around blindly in the dark using a hit and miss method of trying to sort out how to best be of support.
Has anyone else gone through this? Recovered, then attempted to be a resource to your sibling? It is great that she wants to recover, and I am finding she has great resiliency, and organically in our encounters I have been teaching her some of the skills I learned to be a resource to her. She is asking support for healing from the trauma, the dissociation, body dysmorphia and other things. My number one concern is her safety. I've recovered because I've had safety and support. She ends up in and out of hospitals and has period of disappearance where she doesn't know where she has been.
After 23 years of dedicated flow, although still processing, I consider myself recovered from CPTSD and associated conditions with full awareness, that there may be things buried yet to uncover. A sibling has been asking for a number of years (3) if I would join in on the conversation about her care in that she believes she isn't getting the support she needs. Advocacy, I am discovering, is super stressful and I feel like I am wandering around blindly in the dark using a hit and miss method of trying to sort out how to best be of support.
Has anyone else gone through this? Recovered, then attempted to be a resource to your sibling? It is great that she wants to recover, and I am finding she has great resiliency, and organically in our encounters I have been teaching her some of the skills I learned to be a resource to her. She is asking support for healing from the trauma, the dissociation, body dysmorphia and other things. My number one concern is her safety. I've recovered because I've had safety and support. She ends up in and out of hospitals and has period of disappearance where she doesn't know where she has been.
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