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Can hardly believe I’m not alone. (self.cptsd)

submitted 10 months ago by zeusbottom to c/[email protected]

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On Thursday, I met with a therapist who ran through the ACES inventory with me during our session.

It’s been a wild ride since then. Never have I felt so much validation and relief, and never have I wanted to get started with the healing process so much. At long last, there’s a name for what I’ve felt over the past 36 years, and more importantly there’s a treatment protocol.

I truly thought I was alone, especially after my encounter with a different therapist some 20 years ago. No one was talking about c-PTSD back then.

Yesterday I could hardly sleep, as it often happens. I let my emotional dysregulation (learned that has a name too!) run wild, intentionally, to pull together a list of all the traumas I faced. I could scarcely sleep until I had written everything down.

Just sharing my joy at being understood.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Join the cptsd discord it is linked on the cptsd reddit page, great people and lots of resources, good luck with your journey

[–] zeusbottom 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks for mentioning it, I plan to join today!