Death by a Thousand Cuts

[sanmagic7]

like many others here, i, too, have many, many incidents in my background of abuse and neglect that might not qualify as traumatic to some, but, yes, the wise words ' if you have symptoms of c-ptsd, it was bad enough', and i questioned it from time to time.  i've gotten better at accepting, but it takes practice sometimes.

as far as 12,000 different troubling events, something i've come to realize is that they often can be huddled under one umbrella or another.  for example, how many times were my feelings dismissed (many preverbal, i imagine)?  each may have its own situation, but they were generally in the same category.  that might take care of a few hundred examples.  and so on.  EMDR can often deal w/ puddles like that of similar instances w/o having to go thru each one individually. 

just a thought.  love and hugs