Posts tagged with "trauma"
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July 01, 2025
From an Instagram post: What trauma sounds like: "Are you mad at me?" Did I do something wrong?" What this really means: "I spent my childhood walking on eggshells, constantly reading the room,...
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March 30, 2025
From various Instagram posts: Everybody is shocked when you start being real serious about boundaries like yeah surprise, I'm not a people pleaser anymore so let's see how cool we really are. --- My...
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February 22, 2025
From Reddit: You didn't become selfish. You became harder to manipulate. Don't confuse the two.
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January 30, 2025
The event that made me swear off lawns entirely occurred in 2009. It was like 109 heat index. My mom was here for the summer from Saudi Arabia. I get home from work, and she hounds me to mow the lawn...
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January 16, 2025
Fom an Instagram post: Nobody talks about the angry stage of healing. The rage you feel when you realize how much and for how long you were taken advantage of. The absolute disgust you feel towards...
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January 02, 2025
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December 29, 2024
From an Instagram post: I have a toxic trait, which is that I suffer in silence and hope someone notices I am not myself. This is because growing up, I had to constantly be there for others, and no...
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December 29, 2024
From an Instagram post: According to psychology, some people panic when they think they've done anything wrong, and obsess over he same mistakes from their childhood repeatedly. This is called moral...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: Were YOU the protector who needed safety? You knew as a child that your role was to be a "little adult." To hide how you felt, to ignore your needs, and to keep it all...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: Stop assuming that people are mad at you. Stop attempting to read people's minds. Stop trying to manage the thoughts and emotions of others. Let people be in charge of...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: The biggest problem for overthinkers is that when they get too attached to someone, their entire mood depends on how the other person responds to them. They are so attuned to...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: My therapist told me that: "Your-anxiety and overthinking is a trauma response to tne fact that no one truly protected you when you were younger, but you always did the best...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: If you grew up in a dysfunctional family with a raging parent or where expressing emotions led to being wronged, ignored or punished, you quickly learned that your emotions...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: "People don't get what it means to be in survival mode as a child. While some are building social skills, kid survivors are building defenses. As adults, some are building...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: The kindest people are not born that way, they are made. They are the souls that have experienced much at the hands of life. They are the ones who have dug themselves out of...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: At first you didn't understand why you got frustrated when people start depending on you too much. But it's because your inner child gets angry that you had to figure it all...
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December 01, 2024
From an Instagram post: My therapist said if you self isolate when overwhelmed, you probably had to solve a lot of your problems alone as a child.
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November 28, 2024
From a post: I understand how deeply it can feel like holding space for yourself-creating a place to just exist— comes at the expense of others or risks being dismissed as selfishness. And I see how...
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October 22, 2024
23 Things Only People Who Were Raised By Narcissistic Parents Will Understand: You were an adult before you ever got to be a child – and now, you sometimes still feel like a child in an adult’s body....
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October 22, 2024
From Threads: I am literally a full grown adult, still stuck with the exact same nervous system of the autistic kid on the playground with no friends, and the same echo still in my heart saying...
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October 20, 2024
Surprising Benefits for Those Who Had Tough Childhoods: Sarah also credits her upbringing for giving her the observational skills of a master spy. She can sense when people are hiding something from...
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October 19, 2024
From Reddit: ...your therapist also would be well served by reading Deb Dana's books on Polyvagal Theory. Some good quotes that I think you'll appreciate: "When I teach Polyvagal Theory to colleagues...
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October 19, 2024
From an Instagram post: If there's anything internalizers have in common, it's their need to share their inner experience. As children, their need for genuine emotional connection is the central fact...
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September 13, 2024
From Threads: Having CPSTD I can remember the day, where I was at, roughly how old I was ( child.) When that seed of CPSTD took root. I remember the pain of that small child crying out to a imagined...
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August 26, 2024
From an Instagram post: Some of the kindest souls I know have lived in a world that was not so kind to them. Some of the best human beings I know have been through so much at the hands of others, and...
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July 29, 2024
Forgiveness Is forgiveness overrated?: > "In a 2008 essay in the journal In Character, history professor Wilfred McClay writes that as a society we have twisted the meaning of forgiveness into a...
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July 19, 2024
From a meme: People like me don't have people. We are the people that people that people have.
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July 10, 2024
Birth - 7 years old 1981 1983-84 I can't form attachments to places. I don't have a sense of home. --- 7-11 1986 I fell behind on homework in science class. I remember feeling more and more...
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May 13, 2024
From a meme: I just told a story at work about my childhood that I thought was really funny, but now everyone is super quiet and someone said "I'm so sorry."
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March 06, 2024
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May 24, 2022
Around 30 years ago, my family moved to the US from overseas. In the country we came from, Mother's Day wasn't celebrated. When we got here, my 2 sisters and I thought it would be nice to get our mom...
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July 15, 2021
No child deserves to be treated the way the man who was my father treated me Father’s Day is tough for me. I don’t have a dad, because the man who was my father made a choice, when I was a child, to...
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