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What’s something that has surprised you as you’ve learned more about your mental health?

Growing up, I had little knowledge or understanding of what it meant to take care of my mental health—that is, until I had to make it a priority. Even now, it still surprises me how much effort, support, energy, and confidence it takes to remain resilient. Sometimes I feel incredibly tired and exhausted from keeping up with my treatment and care.

What about you?
What’s something you’ve found surprising?

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My recovery is teaching me how to…

I’ll be honest—recovery is really tough. Not only does it take a lot of work to maintain, but it has also shown me parts of myself that I once hid and felt embarrassed to address. Even now, years later, I still feel a bit of shame when symptoms resurface that I thought I had already overcome.

At the same time, this has become one of my biggest lessons. Recovery is teaching me how to be patient with myself and to accept who I am, no matter what I’m experiencing. Even when I isolate, feel weighed down by shame from past decisions, or notice my self-talk becoming cruel, I am still in active recovery. I’m not going backward—I’m allowed to struggle sometimes. I have the tools to find balance again.

That’s what recovery is all about.

What about you?

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Pantry, weekly#CPTSD

I cleaned and organized the pantry, yesterday.you just dumped a box,of cookies, out in a pile, loose, into the https://drawer.No care, no consideration or bother.it is then, shoved closed.box tossed on the counter.no problem the drawer has a pile of cookies, that will be crumbs https://now.Doesnt matter I cleaned and organized it for the new food to go there, with the box.no problem, I will arrange them, https://again.For the third time this month.

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Pantry, weekly#CPTSD

I cleaned and organized the pantry, yesterday.you just dumped a box,of cookies, out in a pile, loose, into the https://drawer.No care, no consideration or bother.it is then, shoved closed.box tossed on the counter.no problem the drawer has a pile of cookies, that will be crumbs https://now.Doesnt matter I cleaned and organized it for the new food to go there, with the box.no problem, I will arrange them, https://again.For the third time this month.

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Diagnosis#CPTSD #artheals

Diagnosed with enough and done with the labels Ive been analyzed https://within.My resilience is not gained by ignoring the facts or https://pretending.It is from facing what others prefer to destroy and deny. I have sat by and watched, him, destroy relationships that I wanted to foster.Calls, I pushed him to https://make.Every attempt was ignored and I decided to stop trying all together. I learned my place, from her, them and https://him.To blatantly ignore and pretend the last two years didnt take place, is not my deal or my issue to sort https://out.Time will catch up, it will and people who were playing, with my boundaries, always pay in the end.
My lowest point, was celebrated and I owe nothing to those who chose to partake, no matter who they are.

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Diagnosis#CPTSD #artheals

Diagnosed with enough and done with the labels Ive been analyzed https://within.My resilience is not gained by ignoring the facts or https://pretending.It is from facing what others prefer to destroy and deny. I have sat by and watched, him, destroy relationships that I wanted to foster.Calls, I pushed him to https://make.Every attempt was ignored and I decided to stop trying all together. I learned my place, from her, them and https://him.To blatantly ignore and pretend the last two years didnt take place, is not my deal or my issue to sort https://out.Time will catch up, it will and people who were playing, with my boundaries, always pay in the end.
My lowest point, was celebrated and I owe nothing to those who chose to partake, no matter who they are.

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Cutting#CPTSD #artheals

I need to cut my canvases and put them https://away.I honestly don't want to but it is necessary for me to keep https://space.I feel too confined and too exposed now.is that a thing?

How do you feel after those you admired, keep hurting others?
That, keep hurting you, on purpose and intentionally sabotaging your spirit?

How do "healthy" people deal with this?
Do you pause, join in or question it?
Do you judge or ask the targeted person for clarity?
Do you gang up on them with others or single yourself out?
Or do you ignore, turn face and pretend, invalidating the targeted person even more?
Where do others draw the line?
Seriously asking?

Assumptions about others, that turn into gossip and slander, are weak.
I find, offensively gross and https://intolerant.They show, the messangers true colors and character flaws, their own projections and faults.
I often wondered, do they understand this or are they truly, that blind and unaware?

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Cutting#CPTSD #artheals

I need to cut my canvases and put them https://away.I honestly don't want to but it is necessary for me to keep https://space.I feel too confined and too exposed now.is that a thing?

How do you feel after those you admired, keep hurting others?
That, keep hurting you, on purpose and intentionally sabotaging your spirit?

How do "healthy" people deal with this?
Do you pause, join in or question it?
Do you judge or ask the targeted person for clarity?
Do you gang up on them with others or single yourself out?
Or do you ignore, turn face and pretend, invalidating the targeted person even more?
Where do others draw the line?
Seriously asking?

Assumptions about others, that turn into gossip and slander, are weak.
I find, offensively gross and https://intolerant.They show, the messangers true colors and character flaws, their own projections and faults.
I often wondered, do they understand this or are they truly, that blind and unaware?

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Frugal, yes#avm #CPTSD

The funny and ironic thing is, he is cheap but I am https://frugal.I will go without and he spends on himself, saying I buy cheap https://stuff.I buy https://necessity.He will not invest in his house and tells everyone I ruined https://it.He wont help me fix it, at https://all.But tells them, its https://me.Im ungrateful because I want more, worked and gave everything to us, I wanted a better https://future.And in https://writing.Thats when it became a https://problem.A will, my name on the house and reassurance for William.They, didnt want https://us.She didnt want me.
I did not,want other, people, over us, all his friends , his family, they want us, gone.His, avoidance,and uses, the house, as a excuse.it will be done, by https://me.He was doing this years before and now Im ruined, https://financially.That was his https://plan.He doesn't believe he did a thing wrong, still.

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