If you CAN’T STOP being overly critical of yourself, if you have a voice in your head that tells you how worthless you are etc - THAT VOICE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED!
It’s called the “inner critic” and it’s a component of CPTSD.
It’s called the “inner critic” and it’s a component of CPTSD.
https://twitter.com/ehimeora/status/1412901763175288832
This voice may sound like a parent, teacher or bully. I had my dad’s voice in my head for years judging me. It wasn’t really him. My dad loves me, but had a hard time in some ways with parenting.
I resented my dad for years for this voice that WASN’T HIM.
I resented my dad for years for this voice that WASN’T HIM.
That inner critic voice? It’s the form trauma takes to interact with you.
It’s literally your trauma talking to you.
Your trauma is not your friend. Your trauma wants to kill you. Would you take seriously any advice from someone who wants you dead?
Tell it to FUCK OFF.
It’s literally your trauma talking to you.
Your trauma is not your friend. Your trauma wants to kill you. Would you take seriously any advice from someone who wants you dead?
Tell it to FUCK OFF.
Then KEEP telling it to fuck off. It’ll panic, it’ll change its voice, it’ll try to negotiate - this is all part of its protean playbook.
It’s your enemy, and you don’t want an uneasy truce - you want control of your own life back.
Get MAD at this fucker.
It’s your enemy, and you don’t want an uneasy truce - you want control of your own life back.
Get MAD at this fucker.
The important thing to remember is that that voice is not you.
OP didn’t mean to but they framed this in a victim-blaming way. If your parents abused you then you WILL have these issues and not because you’re choosing to perpetuate harm done but because trauma is a living thing.
OP didn’t mean to but they framed this in a victim-blaming way. If your parents abused you then you WILL have these issues and not because you’re choosing to perpetuate harm done but because trauma is a living thing.
“Myk, what do you mean trauma is a living thing?”
I mean it literally infects people and reproduces by causing them to act in ways that traumatize others.
I honestly see trauma as a parasitic entity that lives in our nervous system the way we live in spacetime.
I mean it literally infects people and reproduces by causing them to act in ways that traumatize others.
I honestly see trauma as a parasitic entity that lives in our nervous system the way we live in spacetime.
(If that last tweet is a bridge too far for you to follow me I understand, everything leading up to it is still true!)
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