I treat the trauma directly, from time to time, by exposing it to daylight on Twitter. Slapping the fuck out of trauma with the truth is the only effective way I ever found to end the PTSD, amnesia, fugues, etc.
Trauma is compounded and driven inward when you’re forced to lie about the trauma, or you are so overwhelmed that you lie to yourself. That’s what turns it to PTSD - a longer, broader trauma reax triggered by things other than the trauma itself.
Normal trauma healing can take a while, and treating the symptoms is good. But also, it’s important to make sure you have someone to tell the whole truth to. If you don’t, let Twitter or your social of choice be that someone. Don’t wait decades like I did.
I was first able to talk about my trauma on reddit, in a group called “raised by narcissists.” Many people there were abused as children, and their presence helped me swim through the sea of gelatinous sludge that kept the truth locked away, poisoning me.
Confronting it was shit. Absolute shit. But the PTSD stopped. I don’t reach out and touch those memories just for fun, but I periodically do, just to make sure I stay in practice. Hiding them from myself caused numerous impairments.
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