#cptsd — Public Fediverse posts

Is shame getting in the way of your healing?

https://youtu.be/SeucbAfy0WY (a short somatic exercise) #PTSD #CPTSD #somatic #emotionalregulation #healingfromtrauma #wakingthetiger #PeterLevine #books

BOOSTS WELCOME: If you're looking for someone supposedly "normal", you're in the wrong place. I'm a bi trans man, survivor of many things, have a lot of different life experiences, I'm a little unhinged, an optimist, and unconventional in how I live and love. l'm disabled, ND, and I try to find the joys in each day. I love Baby Yoda(he's my child), I'm a witch, I'm weird... I'm....okay, okay who am I kidding-all this stuff(plus loads more) just makes me awesome. Carry on😉😝

(Also, if you're not following already you're very welcome here. No minors thanks, as I sometimes cover NSFW topics❤️).

#follow #introduction #welcome #weirdisbetter #weirdandwonderful #witch #disabled #nd #neurodivergent #plural #survivor #ptsd #cptsd #babyyoda #awesome #bpd #pluralgang #fibrowarrior #ptsdwarrior

Your little reminder that you can be a positive and optimistic person, and still have days where you're frustrated and angry about your medical conditions and disability. It's valid to have low days. This stuff is hard work.

#disability #disabled #chronicillness #chronically_ill #fibromyalgia #chronicpain #kidneys #kidneysurgery #hearthealth #ptsd #cptsd #bpd #illness #migraines

Hyperarousal is when your nervous system is stuck in fight or flight. It’s feeling like everyday moments are emergencies even when you're safe.

Three Coping Techniques:

🌻Slow your exhale: This signals safety to your body
🌻Name what's around you: This is to ground yourself back in the present
🌻Pause before reacting: Just 90 seconds helps
https://www.liefdesaves.org
#TraumaAwareness #cptsd #mentalhealth #healing #mentalhealth

Yes I'm a positive thinker and an optimist, and also I'm very much over all the physical pain today. Stress about upcoming bills and being under the poverty line only add to it all. I'd really love a break😅

#disabledlife #disabled #poverty #tired #chronicoain #plural #chronicillness #cptsd #neurodivergent #fatigue

Hope you're well today. TL;DR is I'm trying to raise $30.

Cashapp: $mrecon54
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/ottercynical

I'm a painfully neurodivergent and chronically unemployed pan nb, a father to twins, and trying to get on my feet. Today I'm trying to gather up about $30.

I'm on hard times and haven't been able to secure a job in many months, and have gotten by on the charity of family and the kindness of others, but have little for myself. I post here because I appreciate the Mastodon community.

I'll forever remember and be thankful if you are willing to lend me your support. I also take gameplay requests (at no cost). Every penny goes directly toward surviving. My handles are below. Pic is my dog, Biscuit. Thank you for hearing me out.

Cashapp: $mrecon54
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/ottercynical
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/ottercynical
Straw Page: https://theottercynical.straw.page/

@[email protected] @MutualAidBot @mutualaidboost @[email protected] @[email protected] @actuallyautistic @actualyautistic @actuallyautistics @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #AuDHD #ADHD #Autistic #ActuallyAutistic #CPTSD #PTSD #Disability #Disabled #DisabledArtist #ChronicUnemployment #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #Poverty #fundraising #begpost

A reminder for those of us who live with mental illness❤️

#mentalillness #mentalwellness #ptsd #cptsd #bpd #plural #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #depression #anxiety #ptsdrecovery

just got off the phone with dad where he tried to bait me into trashing my oldest brother in his job search. no thanks, dad.

i don't really get along with my oldest brother, but i'm not about to join my dad on trash-talking him.

dad hasn't worked in 15 years and was butthurt that my brother didn't ask him to review his resume.

"but when i worked, people always came to me and asked me to review their resumes!" cool story, dad.

i told him not to take it personally and he said "i never take things personally!"

shortly afterwards he said "well, i've gotta go. goodbye." 🙄

note: when i was job-hunting recently, i didn't send my resume to my dad because he loves to give extremely nitpicky comments as if it's advice from on-high. BUT, my *mom* asked to see my resume, which i thought was weird, and later it turned out that she SECRETLY sent my resume to my dad and then made me read his comments.

my parents: what a jolly pair! and people wonder why i have trouble trusting people!

#family #jobs #boomers #CPTSD #complaining

me in 2026, the year of the fire horse (i'm the cat):

(granted, this has kind of always been me with life in general, but i feel it hard this year. on the plus side, i feel more capable of handling this "life pull situation" than i ever have in my past - mentally, emotionally, physically. these days i have my life set up to where i usually have time and space to rest and regain my small amounts of strength. so the dragging is not going as miserably as it has in many other times in my life. **waves tiny flag**. inshallah this state will continue and i won't backslide into being unable to handle life's normal business.)

#CPTSD #recovery

From FB, and so relatable. ⁨The Self⁩ There is a particular kind of shame that comes from looking around one day and feeling like everybody else got a head start on being a person.

They built careers while you were learning how not to panic. They formed healthy relationships while you were still mistaking familiar pain for love. They saved money, took risks, travelled, studied, made plans and developed confidence while enormous parts of your energy were being spent simply trying to feel safe inside your own life.

But nobody sees time that way.

They see the age.

By thirty you should have this. By forty you should know that. By fifty surely you should be further along. There are invisible milestones everywhere, and when your life doesn’t match them it can feel like evidence that you’ve somehow failed at adulthood.

So you compare your chapter to somebody else’s without accounting for what it cost you just to reach the page you’re on.

You forget the years spent recovering from things you didn’t cause. The relationships you had to unlearn. The beliefs about yourself you had to dismantle. The energy lost to anxiety, hypervigilance, grief, dissociation, people-pleasing or simply getting through days that looked completely ordinary to everybody else.

That time wasn’t empty.

You were doing work.

It just wasn’t the kind of work society knows how to put on a résumé.

You were learning that love shouldn’t frighten you. You were learning that saying no doesn’t make you cruel. You were discovering which parts of your personality were actually yours and which were adaptations. You were learning how to make decisions without asking what would upset everyone else first.

Some people got to spend their early years building a life.

Others had to spend part of adulthood rebuilding the person who was supposed to live it.

Of course those timelines look different.

This doesn’t mean trauma should become the explanation for everything that hasn’t happened yet, or that we have no agency over where we go from here. But shame is a terrible starting line.

Maybe you aren’t lazy. Maybe you aren’t immature. Maybe you haven’t “wasted your potential.”

Maybe you’ve been measuring yourself against people whose energy wasn’t being spent fighting battles you couldn’t see.

There is no prize for arriving at somebody else’s version of life on time.

And perhaps I’m not behind at all.

Perhaps this is simply what my life looks like after taking the long way back to myself.

#theself #knowthyself #feelingbehind #complextrauma #cptsd #childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #healingjourney #selfworth #selfcomparison #selfawareness #psychology #mentalhealth #survivalmode #latebloomer

I'm optimistic but it can be a struggle to reject the fearful vibes from my peers and country

I've already experienced the bottom of the well and have been climbing out for 9 years. I've been split open and I grieve.

I've scratched my way out of the grave and what I have to say about fear is that the only failure is not getting back up everytime you fall.

#mentalhealth #cptsd #traumarecovery #genz #badvibes #memes #darkhumor #nihilism #optimisticnihilism #philosophy

Working on a zine for one of my prose #poem s I was silent for a long time as a victim of #childneglect and #abuse and the experience energizes my commitment to #animalwelfare . Everytime someone fell through an animal stepped up for me and it mattered.

I dont know how to live with what I have seen but I know that spending my time giving back to those who helped me in my hardship will never be the wrong answer #mentalhealth #cptsd #traumarecovery #mutualaid #art #arttherapy

Every step toward #advocacy is an action of gratitude and grief to the ones who couldn't make it here with me.

The best way to show love to ones who are gone, is to share their love forward

#TW #feminism
#philosophy #music #mutualaid #womenshistory #mentalhealth #cptsd #drugs #music #writing #grief

Ui. Über 1000 Follower!

Hätte ich ja nicht gedacht, dass so viele die doch recht... emotional tief gehenden Inhalte von mir "ertragen". Danke für's mit halten und den Austausch!

<3

#Beziehungsgewalt #CCC #Narzissmus #Kinderschutz #Trauma #cPTSD #Cranio #Gemeinschaft #toxischeBeziehungen #Resonanz

Sometimes my #CPTSD riddled and probably autistic brain spits out words for me that I don't even know I'm using properly

This never used to happen when I had adequate rest, food and consistent secure shelter

This makes microbloging and other writing that I used to do with ease and confidence severely hindered and adds to internalized ablism and residual trauma being ignited more than my baseline

But sure I "don't wanna work"

*bangs on sign*

#disabled #disability #disabledlife #neurodivergent #ptsd #cptsd #audhd #adhd #autism #plural #bpd #depression #fibromyalgia #chronicfatigue #chronicillness

For those of us with C-PTSD, the chronic stress we've carried creates allostatic load. It's a physical burden, like this heavy, invisible backpack that we carry all the time. It's not imaginary. It's real, as real as any other disease, like being diabetic. #Trauma #CPTSD #Biology #MentalHealth

So many layers…

https://cynnisblog.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/so-many-layers/

If you are a survivor of childhood trauma working to restore your mental health, please know you are not alone.💜I wrote "The Unbroken Heart" as an honest account of my own journey with PTSD toward lasting inner peace and healing. It features soft, gentle practices that feel like a warm blanket for the soul on difficult days.
Discover the book
https://www.janehealingangels.com/book.html

#Bookstodon #MentalHealth #TraumaRecovery #PTSD #CPTSD #ChildhoodTrauma #InnerPeace #HealingJourney #SelfHelpBooks #IndieAuthor

DO NOT ASK ME FOR HELP, I WILL BLOCK YOU & NOT SHARE YOUR POST

i am getting overwhelmed with pleas for help & i can't cope with it. i suffer from serious life-long trauma #CPTSD & other related #MentalHealth conditions & chronic illness.
i have no money.

DO NOT @ ME OR ASK ME FOR HELP, I WILL BLOCK YOU & NOT SHARE YOUR POST

i am getting overwhelmed with pleas for help & i can't cope with it. i suffer from serious life-long trauma #CPTSD & other related #MentalHealth conditions & chronic illness.
i have no money.

@sflorg
This is probably one of the things underlying my #CPTSD.