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ickplant @lemmy.world

3mo ago

CPTSD symptom wheel

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Oh boy, what do I win for a bingo?
- Crippling anxiety and a five figure therapy tab, in my experience.
  
  I have this cool life hack for avoiding high therapy costs; not being able to afford therapy.
- Spin the wheel to find out!

Whats "tightness" ?
- Tight/tense muscles. A result of “armoring.”
  
  Thanks!

I was diagnosed with PTSD but my doctor never went into detail about what it means or offered any support beyond antidepressants. I experience every single issue laid out on this board, and it's helpful to see that it's "normal" for folks like me.

I experience every single one of these on a routine basis. Discovering and subsequently reading about CPTSD was utterly revelatory for me.
Treating it is another story...

Avoidant, checking in! Everything is awful!
- Everything is awful is like the parody cover of Everything is awesome?
  BTW sometimes I say to my self in a sing-songy voice 'Everything disgusts me', perhaps we're on to something...

I usually tell myself that nothing happened, at least I have no recollection of anything 'bad' really happening to me at an early age to justify my issues. And I don't really think I have 'repressed memories', if that is even a thing. But then, so many of these symptoms are so fitting that I don't know what to make of it.
- And I don’t really think I have ‘repressed memories’
  Funny, I said this exact same thing. Got pissed at the therapist, never went back to him.
  Then it all came back.
  Things don't stay buried.
  
  I've tried really hard to 'remember', there's some stuff, but none seems bad enough. And the only thing that I could label as messed up happened when I was like 9 and an isolated case so it seems like an outlier.
  My only guess is that whatever happened, assuming it did, was so early that my memories are both fuzzy and pre-verbal so I literally couldn't put words into them and are more like vague feelings.

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