i posted this earlier but it was trolling time then so i hope no one minds me reposting :c
nonas how do you cope with having trauma aftermath that came from something not usually talked about as traumatic? it's only recently that i've started to realize that i have a lot of trauma responses that i built up as coping mechanisms in response to being mentally ill, but i feel appropriative talking about myself as being traumatized by it. i don't know if i should feel appropriative, or if that's just another way of blaming myself.
it's just that i hadn't really looked at it from that perspective until i recently started reading about children and trauma and realized how much of it i related to.
sorry, i'm everywhere today. what i meant is that i had a really severe mental illness as a child and until recently i hadn't realized that it had a trauma effect in addition to the symptoms of my mental illness.
i only started to understand recently when i was reading a bit about children and trauma and realized how much it sounded like my reactions and my childhood.
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tw trauma, mi
(Anonymous) 2012-05-14 01:43 am (UTC)(link)nonas how do you cope with having trauma aftermath that came from something not usually talked about as traumatic? it's only recently that i've started to realize that i have a lot of trauma responses that i built up as coping mechanisms in response to being mentally ill, but i feel appropriative talking about myself as being traumatized by it. i don't know if i should feel appropriative, or if that's just another way of blaming myself.
it's just that i hadn't really looked at it from that perspective until i recently started reading about children and trauma and realized how much of it i related to.
Re: tw trauma, mi
(Anonymous) 2012-05-14 01:44 am (UTC)(link)Re: tw trauma, mi
(Anonymous) 2012-05-14 01:45 am (UTC)(link)having a traumatic reaction to mental illness isn't appropriative
it's called being mentally ill
Re: tw trauma, mi
(Anonymous) 2012-05-14 01:49 am (UTC)(link)i only started to understand recently when i was reading a bit about children and trauma and realized how much it sounded like my reactions and my childhood.