Why people with CPTSD find it so difficult to trust the future- a thread 🙏 @realdepressionproject (Instagram) 1/

Christmas is such a tough time for grieving people- a thread.
Try and imagine the person who has died is at the centre of a series of circles. Up close are the people who have been affected the most. The ones whose lives have changed forever. I’m going to qualify this place 2/ With some observations. When this person passed you had to plan a funeral. Tell people what happened. Reorganise bills and finances. Remove their toiletries from the bathroom shelf. Go through their possessions and give people mementos or discard things . You share care for 3/

Depression- a thread. All the observations apply for grief too- please share and we can raise the level of understanding around what’s going on for peeps- Perceptions

I’m going to post this tonight because I have purposely planned a day away from screens tomorrow. It is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 down here in Australia and I am going to pack a picnic and spend it at the idyllic Rainbow Bay. Today has been a slow sink into the PTSD that 2/ has shaped my life since that day. What can I tell you? 6:45am I arise to feed George Eliot my cat. I amble half asleep to the kitchen and put the coffee on. 7:10 am- showered and and sitting with my first double shot coffee and cigarette of the day. Turn the tube on 3/

Shoutout to everyone in lockdown. This is just crap. It’s frustrating and scary. Hard to make plans. Hard to imagine an end to this. It’s very hard to feel okay when everything feels so dark. It’s okay to feel all the feelings. It’s important to think about your situation. It’s 2 equally important to be aware of when you are fixating and perseverating on negative thoughts. Nothing good can come from this. Our brains are problem solving machines. They receive all the input and stimuli then set to work to try and make sense of the ‘patterns of prediction’ 3

Everyone loves to talk about statistical likelihood of a medicine or vaccination being potentially fatal with the assumption it won’t be them. Or someone they love. My husband was killed by a cardio toxic chemotherapy drug with a similar ‘risk’ profile. He was young (44), fit 1/ And had weight trained and exercised for his adult life. His death was a shock to the treating oncologist. If it is you, or someone you love, your whole world falls apart. Iatrogenic deaths are so hard to process. The intervention to help you is what kills you. The dialogue 2/

I’m going to make this very brief. As someone who has experienced multiple traumas in my life and now a trauma therapist I want to clear this point up for those out there who’ve never seen a therapist. If you confide in a therapist a terrible thing that has happened to you, if 2/ you have been too afraid of consequence or fearful of judgment by people around you, what you share is not ‘repressed’. There isn’t a magical voodoo wand that is waved over a client. The client discloses because they feel safe. They have been shown unconditional positive regard 3