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#cptsd

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David Wakeham

Hi all, bedridden today and whilst I am amazed that I have reached 11% of my goal - I’m sorry but I need to push again.

If you can’t help financially, I understand. A share or even a word of support would mean the world.

#MutualAid #Disabled #Poverty #LGBTQIA #HousingInsecurity #Homelessness #cPTSD #Cats #ActuallyAutistic #SupportAnimals #DisabledBySociety

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MastodonDavid Wakeham (@wakehamAMR@mastodon.social)Yesterday, following advice from a welfare officer, I requested aid again with advocacy from a well-known NPO. I'm not in their area: can't help. They gave me a number to get me off the phone: someone who could "help". A shelter for WOMEN-ONLY. This is my last resort. I dislike having to ask more than you feel uncomfortable reading this. So yeah, the eviction date is Sunday (13th April 2025). Don't worry, y'all. I gave up on miracles a long, long time ago. https://gofund.me/b9bb61bf
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anubis2814
#autism #dating #actuallyautisic #trauma #PTSD #CPTSD
One of the things that I have learned over time, is that often you will go into a long term #relationship with sort of an agreement or contract of assumptions about the relationship. Or maybe that's just me because I'm on the spectrum.
However at some point, often quite a few years in, especially if your partner has #trauma issues, something will make it impossible to keep the contract/agreement intact. These are often CORE parts of your agreement and incredibly important to you. This can do one of two things. Destroy the relationship because they broke the contract, or you can work together and with yourself to adjust. What no one ever tells you when they say "relationships require work".
Communication is essential, something I've worked hard at and rarely had issues with over relationships, but with trauma it really does involve work and accepting a reality you never actually signed up for. In sickness and in health.
On the spectrum its very easy to be offended and hurt by this breach of trust. However Love is more than an emotion, it is a promise and at a certain point, if its a choice between the contract or love, especially if they are putting effort into it but just can't. Discovering if they are often requiring communication and probing questions to discover their level of effort if depression and dissociation are involved. It may appear to you that they aren't putting any effort in when they are working so hard just to live with depression, anxiety or trauma. Effort, not outcome is what should define a relationship. Equal effort from all.
Love is also a contract and a promise to work hard to make the relationship work. How much of each contract outweighs the other depends on you. Do you sacrifice something very important for the sake of love, or feel betrayed and burn the love promise in the process.
All I know at this point is that no matter the relationship if I was to burn down the love contract, then try with someone else, this same thing would happen in a unique and likely just as painful way. So if you can salvage it and work together on in. You never signed up for this but that was a blank check written in the love promise. You work at it and don't give up. Verify especially from a therapist that they aren't abusing you in some way psychologically, (and physical abuse is right out) but don't assume your next relationship wont hurt just as much later when this "contract breech" happens again.
You are the only thing you can change, not them, its up to you to decide if your bond or their contract agreement is more important to you.
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lee - no pronouns :v_greyace:

Well, as of today, (c)PTSD is officially on my NHS record!

It's wild to think I'm officially diagnosed now. I never really thought I'd get this far, and ever know what was going on with me. It's such a relief to actually have a reference point for who I am and what I'm dealing with.

Hopefully, this will also really help with accessing support and services, too.

Health conditions 23 April 2025 11:23 am Posttraumatic stress disorder Significance: Minor Status: Active Notes: symptoms of Complex PTSD (cPTSD) described. Accepted into relevant psychological pathway for this, from needs assessment.
#cptsd#mentalhealth#malementalhealth
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Hag Savage

Honestly, right now I feel like I've just been shat out of the belly of the beast after the long and painful digestion which has characterised my whole life until this point.

Sometimes I have difficulty reconciling the cold truth that nobody is coming to save me and they never will and all I have is myself to rely on with Anarchist beliefs. I suppose it's just part of the overidentification with utopian fantasies while I struggle to reclaim the shattered fragments of my traumatised psyche. It would make much more sense for me to lean right wing because I view the world as unsafe and people as fundamentally dangerous. I suppose I should be thankful that humanity is not one of those positions that I have reasoned myself into.

#CPTSD#Anarchy#Psychology
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RationizedInsanity🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸

My severe #claustrophobia is caused by #cptsd as prisoners got better treatment than I did as a kid.

#tourettes causes a lot of pain if you don't understand how to manage it. I suppressed my tics all the time out of shame, and fear from watching how my dad treated my mother. If you do that all the time, you're in immense pain.

He thought I was faking so he took everything from me. I was alone, with nothing to do, and could never leave either.

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scoopzapp.com#LifeDrama I Spent Most of My Childhood Alone & Basically in Solitary Confinement #mentalhealth #storytime#LifeDrama I Spent Most of My Childhood Alone & Basically in Solitary Confinement #mentalhealth #storytime
#mentalhealth#scoopz
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Punk Metal n Bowie

So this came up in my feed. It's about #Brainfog and talks about how in complex trauma for a child, cortisol is released, then natural opioids, that help the child dissociate. Then as an adult apparently if you go through something your brain thinks is the same you get the brain fog.
#Cptsd #ptsd #psychology
Brain Fog is not just a lack of mental clarity. For many, it's a surviva...
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