So I was watching this video
When someone with a debilitating trauma disorder talks about “the worst form of dissociation” they’ve experienced and to me on the scale of dissociation things I’ve experienced, that was at level one out of ten, one being the least severe.
kek.
I don’t know how to talk about this without getting cancelled for it, it’s such a sensitive topic and everyone gets incredibly mad and starts throwing tomatoes at you the second that you want to say something on your mind
but can we all just grow up for a second here and let me joke about my experiences with mental illness or can we not?
I genuinely have no ill intentions here and want to say cryptid’s experiences as that being “the worst” is valid. And I am not trying to compare, or whatever you call it like “one upping” “trauma battling” like “oh I have it so much worse 😢😫 poor ME”
I care so little about that you have no fucking idea. But I want to say is that literally, people with trauma invalidate themselves a lot. Calling myself out here.
So it’s just eye opening when I see major creators in the mental health community online finally opening up, and talking about, what they consider the “severe” struggles they have faced due to their diagnoses- and realize I have experienced what they have at a slightly more extreme level.
I feel like these creators are looked at and perceived as people that “have it really bad” and are genuinely debilitated. And I’m over here with symptoms 100x worse than that just chillin’ and expecting myself to be perfectly fine. It’s like, a good thing.
I don’t even know why I have ptsd tbh like I remember certain traumas here and there but I seriously don’t know why my “worst symptoms” are so “severe”
but they were. I say were because I’m doing a lot better now. But, because I was doing well when ptsd hit me like a ton of bricks one day- I’m just sort of waiting for the other shoe to drop all the time.
some days are really excellent, and then maybe one day I’ll have an off day randomly and unexpectedly. This is just the nature of mental health disorders and it is very nonlinear the process of healing with them
I hate the term healing I think it’s so cliche but there really is no better way to put it succinctly
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdnMdBh9/?k=1
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdnM8SPk/?k=1
another major creator talking about their ptsd symptoms flaring up, as if this is something out of the norm for them and they are quite, disgruntled having to deal with it. to me, this is just a normal day.
I mean that literally. I wake up like this everyday if my life.
I forget that it’s not normal because it is so normal to me. That most people would be shocked to see this happening to themselves, they would speak out about it and ask for help, they would say that something is wrong.
But it’s been so normal to me I literally forget to even mention it in therapy. It’s just “part of life” as mundane as pouring my morning coffee or sneezing even. It’s very autonomous. I’m very used to panic attacks.
this is a good thing because it means I am finding them less “big deal scary” and more of a “whatever” thing and don’t have to flip out over it or be sad about it I just continue on with life normal and happy, happy being the key word.
I forget that what I go through is like, difficult, n stuff.
like hey, give yourself some credit here. You’ve been living life on straight up hard mode.
And, hey if you’re someone who struggles as well, hope you remember to be compassionate to yourself today and always uh, I don’t fucking know, yeah. Cliche, like, yo, like uh, you deserve happiness
I know people will make fun of me and bully me for sharing this like oh ur being a victim bla bla bla but no son it’s so far from that. Basically what I’m saying is, I’ve had to work really hard for my happiness, I’m not, a victim I am like, telling myself, you are STRONGER than you THINK
i just wanted to share because I was “like realizing stuff” (Kylie Jenner, 2016) and I think other people should too but also this is just a medium to express myself in freely but people inevitably judge you because it’s people and that’s what people do lol