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#People talk about memory loss due to trauma but I've had no trauma like that.
wanderingandfound · 2 years
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Oh. Hello grief. Wasn't expecting to see you tonight. Can you go away and come back later?
#Kinda an odd experience to be in the bathroom getting ready for bed and to watch myself hold back sobs like I'm trying to swallow food I#don't like.#At my granny's house being struck for the second time that I don't have any good memories of my other grandparents. (The first time was at#their memorial when I wanted to say something but had nothing to say/no story to recount).#People talk about memory loss due to trauma but I've had no trauma like that.#People talk about sleep being vital for memories but I've had a bad memory for my own life as long as I can remember. No pun intended.#Like there was a time before I was perpetually sick. And for a while I was perpetually sick without being perpetually tired. And I had#pretty much no memory then too.#It's why I've always meant to keep a journal. And this blog has been my biggest success at journaling and yet....#I mostly just recount the bad inner monologue. So few posts are about What I Did Today (neutral to positive).#And what posts there are in the genre are years and years old.#My memory is like those old tiny-brained computers. My memories of people are usually just a fuzzy snapshot of the last time we were#together/on the phone. Everything prior gets overwritten.#Sometime in the past 8 years (since leaving high school) my granny got Old.#She's not doing well now (still more productive than me though) and like. I can't come up with an actual memory of Before.#I spent every single break with her this in excusable.#(Shit the tears came back.)#And like. As these thoughts always come back here: what do I and will I remember of my Mom?#(That she loves me. That's what I'll remember.)#personal
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pass1onepr1ncess · 4 months
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Jojo Golden Wind and DID Representation
I think about Diavolo and Doppio quite LITERALLY every single day, but I also have a lot of thoughts specifically about their plurality. I was talking about this on Ponytown earlier in a big group in the Jojo area, but as a system myself there's a lot I have to say about them in terms of their DID. SO that's what this post is for! First of all, I like to think they would've named their system the Crimson System due to King Crimson. I know in canon they didn't have a system name, especially bc Doppio was entirely unaware of their systemhood, but again these are just my own thoughts.
Also, they likely have DID as opposed to OSDD. In DID there's far more barriers between alters which leads to memory loss and dissociative amnesia, while in OSDD while there definitely can be elements of memory loss and dissociative amnesia, there's definitely a significantly lesser amount of it and there's not as many barriers between alters. Given that Diavolo was able to hide their own plurality from Doppio entirely for years and years has me convinced that they have DID and not OSDD. However, keep in mind that both are covert disorders and it's entirely possible to live with either dissassociative disorder and not know it. For example, we (Arcade System) likely developed DID somewhere around the ages of 7-9 (We're not entirely sure when it was, everything from that time is very blurry because of the trauma and amnesia) and we didn't even consider that we had a dissassociative disorder until we were 18. But considering that Diavolo was fully aware while Doppio wasn't, I'm inclined to believe that they have DID because that would be very indicitive of a strong barrier between them.
Anyway, I think that Doppio was the host! I know that Diavolo was the Boss of Passione, but in order to keep that role secured he needed to be able to go into hiding and we see in canon that he uses headspace to do this. Because of this, Doppio fronts far more often and Diavolo only ever switches with him when they're in danger or if he needs to make an appearance for mafia duties. As for Diavolo's role(s), I think that he's likely a protector (Trying to protect the system from harm by keeping their identity hidden and protected, using the mafia as a means to gain power and loyalty from people who have also sworn to protect them. In controlling Italy through Passione, he also controls who knows his identity and can dissuade people from approaching him through fear), gatekeeper (has access to all of Doppio's memories in addition to his own while also blocking off all of his own memories from Doppio (I would even say that further proof of this is the fact that Doppio can only use his own stand (Epitaph) while Diavolo can harness both his (King Crimson) and Doppio's abilities), can control who is fronting, can force switch Doppio out when needed), and a trauma holder (Doppio doesn't seem to have the same goal of hiding their identity and his only goal is following Diavolo, implying that he doesn't have memories of the trauma that caused their initial split and made Diavolo so afraid of being known).
As for their initial split, AKA the traumatic event that caused them to develop DID in the first place, here are my thoughts. I think that Doppio as an alter was the one born into their body, and Diavolo formed later because of something that happened in their childhood. As for what this was, I don't know for sure but I have a vague idea. It's said that "Solido Naso" was a fairly normal boy for most of his life but that he did have a bit of a violent side. I've seen people say that this "dark side" was Diavolo but, counterpoint, Doppio himself is also violent! We see in his fight with Risotto that while he tends to be more timid and nonconfrontational at first that he quickly becomes angry and violent all on his own- without switching with Diavolo. Diavolo is talking to him, yes, but his actions and feelings are all his own and we see him in a fit of rage and bloodlust in trying to kill Risotto. Jojo fandom needs to stop babying Doppio, he's just as violent and angry and dark as Diavolo is, it just takes him longer to get there and he only does so when backed into a corner. So, I do think that these outbursts from when they were younger really were just Doppio being young and learning to handle his anger and violence. I also think he has anger issues, but that's not for this post.
I think the time when Diavolo forms is when they sought out their mother and tried to learn about their own past. Something must've happened during that that severely traumatized them and put them under a lot of stress, not just once but multiple times as DID and OSDD aren't developed from a singular traumatic event. A person only develops these disorders from repeated and consistent trauma at an early age when the brain hasn't fully formed yet, hence why our mental and emotional state is split into different alters; to protect ourselves from the trauma, our brain sets barriers between each piece of us. Whatever it was caused so much trauma and pain that Diavolo formed as a protector and trauma holder so that Doppio wouldn't have to remember what happened and so he could protect the both of them from it ever happening again- including attacking their mother and burying her alive under the garage so that she wouldn't reveal their past to anyone else and also because she's part of that past. And when their adoptive father finds out about this, he also has to be taken care of. Because there would always be a risk of other people finding out about them and their background, Diavolo took it upon himself to burn their entire hometown down and fake their death. I personally believe that "Solido Naso" was the name their adoptive father gave them and what they were known as legally, so obviously when they were proclaimed dead it was under the name "Solido Naso." That way, they could live as "Diavolo" and "Vinegar Doppio" and be completely nonexistant to the law in Italy. They could fly completely under the radar just like Diavolo wanted.
In terms of how I think they were written and handled in canon, I do not speak for all systems when I say this. These are all my own thoughts and opinions as a system and I am not some kind of representative for the plural community as a whole. But, I think they were written really well! I know people probably use the arguement that it's a bit fishy that out of all the characters, the villain is the only character with DID and especially that they seem to fit into the "Good Alter vs Evil Alter" stereotype, but here's why I don't think this applies.
Yes, Diavolo and Doppio are the villains of Part 5 but I don't feel like Araki made their plurality the reason for their villainy. In the "Good Alter vs Evil Alter" trope, the whole basis for it is that the quote-unquote "Evil Alter" is evil for no reason. It's used as a scapegoat for their malice, that they're simply just evil as an alter with no real motivation. While it can definitely be argued that Diavolo as an alter is entirely malicious, I think this can be explained by him being a protector. I even considered him being a persecutor- especially because the ways in which he protects the system are definitely harmful- but I think persecutors are defined by wanting to help the system in unconventional ways that ultimately hurts the system. Once I thought about it a bit more, Diavolo's methods of protection harm others and not the actual system. Granted, it harmed a lot of people, but not the system. He does have motivations other than just being evil for the sake of it.
Secondly, as I said before, I don't think Doppio could be considered a "Good Alter" in the sense of the Good and Evil balance. Yes, he's considerably a lot softer and less threatening at first glance but he's also incredibly violent and destructive all on his own. I think the only way you could interpret them as "Good Alter and Evil Alter" is if you take a single look at them and never looked back.
And then in terms of them being a system and also being the villains of Part 5, I think Araki handled them really well!! Their plurality is not the focus or reason for their villainy, and even if they weren't a system and were completely two different singlets they would both still be villains! Diavolo's motivations for being the main antagonist are that he want's to remain anonymous and doesn't want people to know about his past. Doppio's motivations for being a more minor villain is that he wants to help Diavolo in his goal. Their plurality, while it plays a part in their motivations since it helps Diavolo hide his identity, is not the source of their antagonism. They would both still be villains if they weren't a system! Not only that, but their systemhood is handled with care. It's clear that Araki did his research, especially treating Diavolo and Doppio as seperate individuals with seperate souls and their own stands! I really appreciated how he actually had Polnareff explain DID so that people wouldn't be confused, and he did so in a way that made it clear that dissassociative disorders aren't inherently bad or evil and that it stems from childhood trauma! I do have a slight problem with the fact that he referred to it as MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder), which is an outdated term but I also know that Part 5 was written in a time where MPD was still the standard and often-used term for it. But the fact that their DID itself isn't demonized and it's the characters themselves being shown as villains that I think was done very well! Shoutout to @endless-hourglass for bringing up some topics in a reblog that I want to add onto! Touching more on Doppio being just as dark as Diavolo and him not being the "Good Alter," he completely could've not been in the mafia! In fact, I think Diavolo probably would have further benefitted from Doppio not being affiliated with the organization at all! It would've meant he could 100% hide without fail while Doppio was fronting since while he was the Don of Passione, Doppio would be completely untied to it all. It would've made a perfect cover story. BUT NO!!! Instead, Doppio CHOSE to be part of the mafia, to be Diavolo's right hand! He didn't have to at all, ESPECIALLY since he was unaware of their plurality! He viewed Diavolo as a seperate person entirely with his own body and, through that lens, he absolutely would've had his own choice, but he didn't! He followed Diavolo into Passione regardless, AND THAT WAS HIS OWN DECISION TO MAKE!!!! Another thing I wanted to add onto touches a bit on the whole theory/implication of Diavolo being a demon/the Actual Devil possessing him when he fronts is that 1) Nonhuman alters totally exist. One of our own previous hosts was a nonhuman alter, and our FF is a colony of plankton just like in Stone Ocean. And 2) Diavolo and Doppio's adoptive father was a priest. Do I think that there was something legitimately biblical and supernatural happening and that Diavolo is a literal demon or Satan himself? No, not really. Do I think that it's entirely possible that in their headspace he could be a demonic nonhuman alter that formed because of their religious upbringing? I think it's entirely possible! Despite the differences in appearance between them that Jojo does when they switch front, I don't think that would be something that would be possible to change between the two of them because regardless of if Diavolo is a nonhuman alter or not, their body is still human. But it could be a fun little thing to think about!
This topic really is something I think about often, especially since Diavolo and Doppio are my dads and I think it's funny how I, their daughter, ended up in a DID system myself. I made a joke to a friend a bit ago about how it "runs in the family" lmao.
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general-cyno · 4 months
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I recently saw someone on YT talking about Zoro's past and while I agree that his flashback feels rushed within the story (which I think can be explained by how early it happens) what always surprises me is how unsettling it is for people. It's a simple but sharp reality in a fantasy world, quite similar to what happens in Usopp's past and perhaps not so common for the rest of the OP world, who have pasts more rooted in the rules of that universe. Kuina died after falling down the stairs. "In OP's world there are people who survive worse things..." they say. "It's absurd. She was trained and very strong." Yeah, sure, but Kuina died like that. Suddenly. Anticlimatically. She was as full of dreams and ambitions, fears and insecurities as everyone else. But she died in an accident. She died too soon. Without a reason. With no one to blame. Simple, cruel and real.
Y'know, I've seen this around a lot. especially in posts (on r/ddit and twt in my case) where people argue about zoro having a "mid" backstory or complain about wanting oda to give him a proper one. and ngl I feel like this pairs up with OP fandom's bad habit of powerscaling everything - even loss, trauma and grief.
Sure, if you compare kuina's death to all the other ones throughout OP it might not seem as "tragic", but this is one of those instances in which context and individual experiences matter most. kuina was just a kid who, despite her strength and training, was led to believe by her own father that her gender would become the reason she'd never achieve her dreams. and when she finally finds someone who believes in her, who sees her as an equal and a goal to strive towards to, who's willing fight against and alongside her - she dies. as you mention: she dies without reason, with no one to blame. that is plenty tragic to me, regardless of all other sad or abhorrent things that happen in the story's universe.
This is just me speculating but I've also wondered if the fact that zoro's relatively well-adjusted despite the hardships and losses he's lived through is part of what makes people downplay both kuina's death and the role it plays in zoro's backstory/motivations. because the thing is - zoro may not carry or express his losses and grief as outwardly as other characters do, but look at how he reacts when the people he loves are in danger and the kind of sacrifices he's willing to make so that they'll be safe. how he's usually always keeping an eye on and watching out for all of them some way or the other. look at how he cries (which iirc he's done on page only three times) when he loses the duel against mihawk.
Zoro, similarly to other straw hats, had his parents die due to pirates or bc of an illness, grew up as an orphan, and the only friend he had died in a manner he couldn't do anything to foresee or prevent as well; the latter of which has impacted his life all the way to adulthood. kuina's memory is one that's at the forefront of what he does, just like his promise to luffy. draw the parallel between this, how fiercely protective he is and how much he hates the idea of dying in circumstances out of his control (I'd argue it even terrifies him a little, judging by his reaction to the reaper in wano) and it's easy to see how much his experiences, and especially kuina's death, have shaped him as a character. just bc he's not crying, having breakdowns or generally brooding about it every time he appears on screen doesn't make his life story less important, sad or tragic than anyone else's. plus, the stability he provides to luffy and the crew is crucial, so he needs less narrative reasons to leave them, not more. zoro not having, for example, a centric rescue arc doesn't make him less of a straw hat member either.
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lowcalheavyweight · 10 months
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Tw: vent, personal meanspo? (Seriously these thoughts don't apply to anyone else, I don't think any other people have measurable worth, i love you)
They won't care
They will never care and they have never cared, even when they thought you were sick.
You tried kindness and sincerity
They didn't like you
You tried being smart and helpful
They didn't want to talk to you
You tried making yourself interesting with hobbies and style
They didn't want to be your friends
You tried dressing pretty&sexy
They didn't care about you
Now you are trying being petite and fragile
They won't attempt to reach out to you
"You are too intimidating," "You're self-sufficient," "Independent,"
Wha-I'M LONELY.
TO THE POINT I'M STRUGGLING TO FUNCTION
I will beg for scraps of your friendship that you deny me for these excuses
My attemps to bond and reach out have left me with anxiety so crippling I can't talk to people without being convinced they hate me
I'm obsessing about my worth as a human being, desperately holding onto my "worthy" parts and crisis panicing when I accidentally got a burnscar cause that means my stock value just went down, right?
I use my body as a barganing chip and I'm too scared to do what i want with it cause my "possible worth" will be higher if I'm still able to become anything they want me to be, for the person who finally picks me up
My brain tells me I will be worthier if I lose more weight
My brain tells me they will just contine to look past you
I'm already on 24/7 sale, they will never pick you up
Never choose you
I've been reflecting on the past recently (can you tell?!??haha) and remembered middle school.
I was already eating quite disordered(without realising - in a soft binge cycle and missing hunger and fullness ques) and we had a schoolwork to "mark on this website your eating habits-food etc for a period of time and submit to the teacher"
If I remember correctly i think it didn't let me log a empty breakfast so I asked, in front of the while class "what if you eat irregularly?" and was then openly pressed until I revealed I mostly only ate once a day and sometimes missed days (once again, I didn't even really try to hide it, I ate a lot when I did and didn't think about food much, I just wanted to do my schoolwork properly)
My teacher then told me to eat something for meals to log them and I just got frustrated cause before, they had extra told us not to change our habits for this assigment
I forgot about it soon and only long after realised my whole class thought I had a full blown ed at that time
And all they did was - ONE person told me once, randomly to eat breakfast every morning, at least a sandwich (at least?? dude that's a whole MEAL) and report to them every day what I ate.
Honestly, at that point I was just confused but happy someone seemed interested in having a daily conversation.
They never once talked to me again.
And honestly, I was actually super sick at that time, not with an ed but severe depression and disassociation due to family trauma. Staying up 72h straight REGULARLY, fevers and sick all the time, severe memory loss
I was visibly sick,
with what they thought was an ed
And noone cared
They will never care, you will never reach anyone or anything else exept your ugw
Your worth will still drop cause your health, skin, mental capacity and wellbeing will drop it lower than your weightloss could ever regain
You will die alone, anxious and fuking pathetic cause it is all your fault anyways and noone feels bad for you "being so lonely boohoo"
You are the real evil anyways, otherwise you'd be worthy of love at this point.
Die like you deserve
Xoxo ♡
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maverickkkkz · 7 months
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EUGHHH time to talk about Power Rangers!!
So I've been watching Power Rangers SPD and I wanna talk about Sky because I love him very much and he also has issues LOL. My memory is shit so I might be making half of this up but HERE WE GO!!
Sky Tate has so many issues from his dad, not in the way that his dad was a terrible person or father but because Sky set himself an impossible goal and really high self-expectations because of who his father was. Of course, that wasn't his dad's fault but yk here we are! Imagine being a child and expecting to be this great ranger, as great as your late father, and then you grow up and suddenly that whole idea is crushed! Ripped away from the palm of your hands!
Sky worked so hard to be the Red Ranger, but it caused arrogance on his part, and just because he had the dedication to SPD and his father was the Red Ranger didn't mean he automatically had rights to the title or position of Red Ranger. Of course, it was sad to see his dream stomped on, failing to live up to the expectation he set for himself and the expectation he might've felt his family held for him because, after all, he was his father's son. Or maybe feeling like he failed to prove himself, because his family were against the idea of him being like his father, due to his father's death in the line of duty. Either way, it is sad, even if he wasn't ready to be the Red Ranger because of his immaturity, arrogance and behaviour! Of course, it was gonna cause issues between him and Jack, Sky is a control freak, maybe because he couldn't control what happened to his father? For all of that to happen, the loss of control and the failure to himself, he was never gonna get along with Jack OR Z at the drop of a hat, because they swooped in with zero training, with powers that he believed were unique to him, Bridge, and Syd, and took over where Sky believed he should rightfully stand.
It isn't an excuse for the way he treated Jack or butted heads with him but it is a reason, and of course, Power Rangers is just a kids show so they wouldn't talk about it, but I talk about it! It shouldn't have been brushed over, and if it was a real-life situation it definitely wouldn't have been. Sky has trauma from his father's passing, and probably has something funky going on with his self-worth, he really did work hard for Red Ranger, and he didn't get it, he's allowed to be disappointed. However, the moral of the story, he REALLY needs to see a therapist (like everyone else on B Squad)! It also might've done him good to talk to the others about it a bit more rather than basically just being seen as an asshole, iirc they might've understood somewhat in the show (?) but I can definitely see them and a lot of other people just brushing Sky off as that arrogant, bratty, child of a Red Ranger with a stick up his ass rather than someone who is a good person underneath all of that and just needs some help.
In the long run though, Sky not becoming the Red Ranger straight away WAS good for him. It taught him how to be a better person, to grow up from that child he still sorta was with stars in his eyes whenever he saw his father on TV saving people (and I can imagine the day his father died, his mother had to turn the news off). And in the end, he did get there, he reached his goal after a lot of good, solid character development and I really really enjoy his character arc! For a Power Rangers series, the SPD B Squad characters, and the other characters around them, have complicated stories and development and I love that so much!!
I'm also a little delusional at the end of the day :D
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cor-ardens-archive · 2 years
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(Mari, I’m not coming at you) I thought people were mad because the author said she didn’t “believe” in therapy, not because she refused to have one. Also when she admitted that she never did any research for the main character is honestly what did it to me. I definitely don’t think there’s anything wrong with the therapy debacle, it’s obviously personal
not believing in therapy is entirely valid though... like, i personally do believe in therapy very much, but i've also had a lot of bad experience with it and understand why someone might not believe in it. i also have a lot of personal experience that would validate some suspicion of psychiatric/mental health care as a whole.
but in any case, that's not exactly accurate to what she said...
I talked to my closest friend about this. He suggested I see a therapist. But I couldn’t — and I can’t. I have never been to therapy, and over the years, it has changed from something bewitching — as it still is for my father, as it once was for me — into something sinister, a form of mind control, a violation of the self, like scooping out your brain and placing it into someone else’s cupped palms to prod at. As I’ve grown older, I’ve often wished I’d let that early attraction to therapy become something else: a trust in it, perhaps. But the fear of loss of control is greater than the hope for comfort.
So what do you do, when you realize you’ve created a life in which you’re unable to let yourself be observed, and yet, equally, yearn to be seen? You do only what you can do, which is to keep watching others. You hope that one day, you’ll learn how to guide yourself back into the forest once more. And in the meantime, you will have sacrificed nothing. Who you are: your secrets, your miseries, your fears, will always be — agonizingly, sometimes — your own.
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this is clearly a personal statement about her own relationship with the idea of therapy. there's nothing wrong with expressing her feelings and experiences.
and what do you mean she never did any research for her character? why does that matter? here's what she said:
Did you do any research to build this character? Was it difficult to write this material?
HY: No, I didn’t do any research; Jude came to me fully formed, and writing his sections were always the easiest. He’s a very consistent character — or is meant to be — which is, arguably, part of what dooms him.
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jude is a fictional character, not based on any real people. why should she have to do research? she didn't say if she didn't do any research on mental illness, trauma, physical disability, pain, medical care, psychiatric care, pain medication, traumatic memories... she said she didn't do research for jude, the character. this sounds like more nitpicking to demonize someone just because she wrote a book you may not like, with all due respect.
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tigretigris-blog · 1 month
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Trauma Horcrux Journey: Return, Neutralize, and/,or Kill
TW: TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES, Racism and childhood trauma and scars from bullies and manipulated.
Have you ever felt there's a blockage in your life, a walking black cat of bad luck or maybe feel like your life has been cursed? If these three hypothetical questions apply to you, it turns out that you may have multiple horcruxes residing inside you.
this is a shout out to those who are along with no family due to estrangement, those who are battling demons that always ends in loss or stalemate. I want to share my stories and experiences with you so you can be inspired to break free of any generational curses, trauma or Shadow horcrux is that chaining you down unable to reach your potential to be great in life. Trauma is always going to be part of our lives but how we will define our meeting so the pain won't hurt that much anymore is how we Will rise from the ashes. It's up to you.
This journey of mine is more personal, it's more of a metaphorical transformation getting back to the person that I once was before all the rotten shit had happened to me. Transforming back to the old me with some new character development, self confidence ,self-love, and improvement of quality everyday life. Although I can't turn back the hands of time and I can't get back all those moments that was stolen. I can focus on the here and now and make new memories good ones every single day. That's a surefire way to stop history from repeating itself.
I'm 2 years away from being 40 and I'm finally learning how to love and appreciate myself for the first time and 33 years. I don't know how many horcruxes is that I have but so far.. I returned my trauma horcruxes to it senders, neutralized and killed a few. It was 12.
1. Throwing shade at an annoying ex coworker at my former job in Bravos(a 🦝 with pizza toppings freckles. Lol).
Returning the trauma and humiliation to its rightful owner, I've embraced my vengeful nature as a Scorpio, sometimes being the bigger person is overrated and assholes like her need to be put in place. In layman's terms, I try not to let vengeance consume my mind and heart but nothing is being done and I'm sick of giving wicked people passes while I'm suffering internally.😈😈😈🦂🦂🦂✔️
2. Played basketball with other guys healing my childhood wounds. Long story short me and men in sports don't get along very well as a kid, basketball was thrown at my back and at my head... It hurts like hell✔️
3. Chewed out an online clout lighting psycho bitch named Mooky Milk(jahjah sky) and Jean C Maxamilian ( I hope she gets canceled for good) got my 6-year revenge for the trauma they put me through.
She ironically and hypocritically blocked me and I blocked her a long time ago to protect her from my mouth doing some damage and dude was trying to be a clout chaser talking about I'm being performative. Returning trauma to it's rightful owners ✔️
4. Overcame Online Trauma from non-responsive messaging from people- I just had to reprogram myself to understanding the language. Some people don't have the energy because they're busy and try not to take it personally. It really took a lot of days and exceedingly hard months to not give in✔️
5. Becoming more assertive and standing up for myself and others. I've been a pushover to being very passive aggressive almost my whole life. When I got overly aggressive I can get very carried way easy to the point where I can hurt a person's feelings in the most severe brutal manner possible. I'm only going to use that as a defense only.✔️
6. I became stoic towards the losses of friendships to the point where I don't feel a thing. It's okay to feel sad but the longer I dwell the more my sanity will diminish. It's not the first rodeo.
I have been having a hard time keeping and maintaining friendship and I was a child, due to the childhood trauma of being bullied I didn't know who to trust and eventually as I learned I was My own worst enemy and some of the unnecessary losses were all for nothing. At the time I thought I can read minds of people to protect myself from getting hurt as a child. Unfortunately, it made me into a class pariah. I couldn't even handle the roughest horse play without having an urge of wanting to hurt self defense.✔️
7. I got my poetry writing skills back.✔️
8. Established my confidence in talking to women. I'm no longer afraid to approach. I may stutter or stumble with my words but I quickly recover.
I realize I do have some style and swagger I just got to learn how to utilize them properly and being my authentic self. I can't believe that I damn near wasted my time trying to be something that I wasn't and my twenties and in my teens. I still got a lot to learn before I consider dating again whether it's with my first love for someone else. I discovered that I like monogamous polyamorous and solonogamous. ✔️ horcrux neutralized
9. Learning to Dance, giving an old childhood humiliation experience cleaver. I'm taking some pretty good baby steps so many moves so little time.
I want to try pole dancing just to get my acrobatic skills and learning how to properly seduce a woman. Capoeira and break dancing.✔️
10. I got my love for cartooning back thanks to my nephew. I haven't drew a cartoon in years but after making up some fan art power rangers this got me inspired to do some fan art soon✔️
11. Utilizing being an asshole at the right proper moment. I'm no longer afraid to be really mean and ugly, people can't handle me at my worst moment they don't deserve my good side either. Only if a person deserves it of course defense only✔️
12. Today on this momentous occasion I gave my trauma horcrux from the University of Tennessee the cleaver. Horcux exterminated. This is part one, long story short I got fucked over by someone who I thought was my friend and got me unjustly banned from the campus that I was working like a slave to graduate from under another layer trauma. She was a queer white feminist of all people. Looking back on it I believe she used me as a diversion so she can protect her ex partner who was a non-binary predator who SA a few people and two of them were teenagers.
.Upcoming Horcruxes:
1.Weight Loss-265lbs of trauma weight from college
My Stuttering
Anger Management
Changing the way I engage in debate or how I talk to people
Taking crucial classes to understand body languages,
building strong friendships and relationships so the childhood trauma and adulthood trauma would fade away like an old scar wound.
reLearning boundaries for myself and for others properly
English grammar and vocabulary and writing abilities returning
Making damn sure the misogynistic and possible jealous side is dead for good(small relapse since in 2020). I need some pretty good feminist articles and I need to go back on old ones I saved
.Taking a parenting class( I'm not expecting any kids lol) to toe tag my shadow so I can no what to expect and what to do in case of unplanned pregnancy or pregnancy via marriage. Trying to break the ghastly chain of parents being absent from their kids lives. Properly responsible.( just got to find the right class)
How to how to return neutralize and kill your horcruxes
For the returns use careful judgment wisely, only using a return to sender if the person is incorrigible no conscience or remorse and being an all round no good miserable asshole by simply standing up for yourself. Throwing shade embarrass them without care or shame. If they fight you you can defend yourself but do not do anything that will get you behind bars.
Neutralize
Converting any negative experiences due to trauma by turning them into positive for example, facing your worst fears, convert the weaknesses that you don't like about yourself and turn them into strengths. Use combos of one and two if you want.
Kill-destroy really horrible traumas that LG back for way too long and affect your daily living and creativity. Combination one and two. Do not literally do harm that will get you in trouble. Seek possible accountability and if they are truly sorry and make no excuses and they hold themselves they are accountable, you don't have to do anything like lawsuits. Give the person trying to grow mature from this(unless they are incorrigible and don't give a fuck).
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cablestwisted · 2 years
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Do you think that the marmalised could eventually regain their memories that were erased? I feel if it did happen, I doubt it would last long considering the ministry’s omnipresence, but I feel like that would be a interesting concept.
Also, do you think that marmalisation can be reversed? (Def not asking bc I have a oc that may or may not follow said concept *dabs in shame*)
Thank you so much for this question!! This is super interesting and something I've thought about a fair bit over the years.
See here's the thing; we know that memories can be returned after being erased by the Smiler, under the right circumstances - the 2013 fireworks detailed that the memories of the resort could be returned, as they were protected within the guests of the park.
I've no idea if somehow you could harness the magic of the resort to do that for someone due to the connection between magic and memories, but it's a possibility under the right circumstances. Or even if you could do the same thing, tell people the memories they'd lost if you were aware of them and in fact restore them in that way. The intersection between magic and science is.. interesting, when it comes to the Smiler, Alton Towers, and memories!
There's a strong possibility that memories could in fact return on their own, in time, too. I can't think of anything canon that supports this as tbh we don't have much in the way of actual info on the nature of Marmalisation, but it is definitely a possibility!
I do reckon that the Smiler leaves Corrected people with enough memories & mind intact to like, survive their daily lives, so even with the memory loss - if they could be de-programmed, which may take a lot of time [I'm talking, years, and a lot of contact with deprogrammers, here's a little bit of information about deprogramming via Wikipedia] they could theoretically at least lose the loyalty portion of Correction if not all of it and live a largely "normal" life provided the Ministry didn't intervene.
As Correction via the Smiler does actually manipulate the mind quite a lot and it's implied that certain processes actually cause a physical change to the structure of the brain, it would be difficult to lose every part of Correction and in many cases would leave the subject with a lot of issues to work through in regards to emotional wellbeing, ability to introspect, and a possible trauma component too.
In my specific canon, people can in fact fall out of Correction due to traumatic events or their memories returning that force them to re-examine things - badly Corrected people or people who've lost certain parts of their programming due to deprogramming techniques or falling out of Correction are also susceptible to what's essentially the Advocate version of a panic attack.
The mind can still panic, quite often because of trauma surrounding Correction or other events, but it doesn't know how to interpret that, so you'll just see someone start laughing, eventually working themselves up into essentially a programming feedback loop where their programming punishes them for being sad - making them more sad in the process - which just makes their programming punish them for being sad more - and it creates this cycle of sheer panic which is Very difficult to break. Oftentimes this is broken by getting the subject into trance using a quick distraction based method utilising common hypnosis triggers which they're more likely to be susceptible to, or simply by just sedating the subject to break that loop.
You saw issues like this in the Sanctuary a lot in patients who had "crossed wires" in their programming, and you still see it happen a fair bit with Halfway Corrected and especially Manually Corrected [not Corrected by the Smiler] subjects.
WARNING FOR CANON-TYPICAL MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, VIOLENCE, TORTURE, AND MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS FOR THIS NEXT BIT
One of my OCs, Jurian, has faulty Correction - he was Corrected using highly experimental techniques and most of his memories were erased.
He proved himself a pretty big threat to the Ministry circa 2014 by leading an effort to infiltrate their database, which he knew was risky but he was ready to take that risk. He was a fairly prominent rebel leader in real life and online, who managed to keep his location hidden for upwards of 3 years by never staying in the same place for too long and employing a Lot of decoy techniques as well as essentially faking his own death multiple times, but was eventually found and Collected.
Jurian endured a lot of traumatic events during his Correction, as Correction via the Smiler didn't work plus the Ministry wanted to make an example of him. He was eventually actually set aside as a host candidate but they decided to release him and just, see how someone with that bad of a Correction would fare within the Ministry. The answer is; not well!
See, Jurian has the loyalty part of Correction pretty much completely intact. Anything else, however, at this point is basically gone, especially after he got attacked by an escaped Host candidate down in the labs and ended up almost dying and being essentially pieced back together by Ainsley, which was.. an ordeal, because Ainsley is not the nicest of people and did essentially torture him.
So he's only got the loyalty portion and a bunch of completely unhelpful residual "I'm not allowed to be sad" programming which commonly sends him into a panicked state when he realises he's not happy. And his memories do actually come back, sometimes, triggered by events that remind his subconscious mind of things from his past. He's trying to piece things back together, especially now the Ministry are actually helping him with therapy and the like. He's doing a lot better than he was initially!
Another of my OCs, Avery, is essentially completely immune to Correction! They're! Not doing well! Because again they have the loyalty section, they fully believe that the Ministry are doing a good thing and that society should be controlled by them for their own good, just because they've been in contact with the Ministry for so long. But the second someone tries to Correct them they somehow lose that Correction within the first few months. Part of the reason why is because they actually manage to de-program themselves out of the happiness thing by accident. Nothing is working on them long term
Because of their immunity they were given the opportunity to work on the Marmaliser as, the Correctional elements on the ride can't do much to them, and since then have become one of its main maintinence guys.
Then you've got Cydonia - who was de-programmed after partial Correction in the second half of the Advocate Trials in the Sanctuary... Who has part of the happiness side of things, but no loyalty. She's a rebel now, trying to prevent the Ministry from hurting more people, but she physically can't stop smiling and is almost always happy to some extent, to the point where her feelings never align with the situation she's in. So she experiences her fair share of mental health problems from that, no matter how repressed they are due to her unsuccessful Correction.
Either way - with Correction, deprogramming and the like will have severe consequences for the subject from both a mental health standpoint and the standpoint of the Ministry of Joy having surveillance literally everywhere and being able to find them and bring them back in for Re-Correction.
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voicefromthecorner · 3 years
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This unnamed friend story is one we only get related to us by Another Day Neku. But I've always said I'm not typically one to assume information like this exists for its own sake. I don't think this is just a random sad side story for our counterpart protagonist just to give him a bit more motivation to be concerned about Hanekoma. I think this is being shown to us because it's relevant to our Neku as well.
Ultimately this is all a matter of interpretation. Reviewing evidence to look for contradictions, corroborations, or relevant information that lacks either:
One of Neku's opening lines of the whole game is that he doesn't "get" people. "Never have, never will"
When Rhyme dies, Neku feels a sense of deja vu for a specific event, but due to his lost memory, he can't remember what it is.
When talking about the Udagawa tag, Neku says he'd often go there after school, but he doesn't mention how he found it.
In response to a specific question by Joshua about having friends, Neku turns away and dismisses it, specifically saying "I never met anyone fun to be around"
This Neku is driven massively to help Hanekoma, partly out of a fear that he could lose him too and out of a sense of guilt. Hanekoma's fate is a mere case of paranoia here, but when Shiki's life was definitely on the line in our Neku's universe, something he bore the blame for in his own head, his determination to save her was relentless.
We don't know much about either Neku's backstory, though I made a point (that could be nothing) that it seems like Another Day Neku has a happier home life. Obviously there are a number of more explicit differences with him and the world at large, but his insights here do show a very similar point of view and history to our Neku.
Secret Report 12 states that Neku was unable to respond accordingly to CAT's "Enjoy the moment" message because of "past trauma".
This leaves us with two possibilities:
Our Neku never had this friend and his sense of deja vu may have come from somewhere else, possibly even the loss of a parent. He had a different life that led to him finding the mural his own way, but he's still Neku Sakuraba at heart. His friendship with Shiki and opening his world to other people led to him discovering the value of both friendship and community for the first time. Another Day Neku contrasts him by having had a taste of friendship in his past that gives this Tin Pin obsessed version of him a bit more depth as a Neku who had and lost something our Neku discovered in our story.
Our Neku's backstory overlaps with Another Day's version here and this lost friend is an untold part of our Neku's story. It was the source of his deja vu when Rhyme died and the memory of it reinforced the guilt and fear he felt for Shiki being his entry fee. He's largely repressed or lives in denial of the event out of shame, sadness or guilt, which possibly helped to motivate his anti-social worldview. His journey in our game was a rediscovery of friendship as well as the discovery of broader community and its value, having previously tied himself down to one friend and nobody else. Another Day Neku contrasts him with a pre-existing friendship with Mr H and an investment in Tin Pin that led to the differences between them and the divergence in their stories.
So what conclusion do you draw? As I said, I think being told this has a main story purpose and I think the evidence points more to this being a piece of our Neku's backstory that we find out in Another Day. It's interesting though. I like how it's not clearly all one thing but the pieces are there for us to put together as we see fit. But, y'know, "The world as one person sees it is tiny..."
I think it's also an interesting insight into Neku's views and understanding of friendship, especially looking at the situations of his partners. He didn't support the idea of Ai and Mina lying to each other. Shiki had a friend with the same strong shared interest as her. Joshua was a new friend for Neku that agreed and related to him. And Beat was someone who felt guilt and shame at causing the death of someone close to him.
Of course, I'm late in saying all of this, so I'll feel pretty foolish if it's confirmed one way or another in A New Day or NEO.
And obviously, this friend hasn't been seen and remains a mystery, but it has to be wondered if he didn't end up in the Reaper's Game after his death.
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This is gonna be so long and irrelevant i'm putting it under a read more because I will not be accused of making people read a multiple paragraph, self-reflective unpacking of my niche interests without their explicit consent. Don't say I never did anything for you.
So yeah in case you somehow haven't noticed I'm going through an ace attorney thing right now. I played the great ace attorney chronicles when it came out and really liked it, and it made me remember how much fun I had playing the original games on my crappy laptop emulator when i was in my first year of college (so like 2015 i think). I had just moved to a new city where i didn't know anybody, and was sort of in the process of completely divorcing myself from everything about my hometown so I had a lot of very solitary time on my hands, so on my breaks between classes I would sit in an empty studio and play these games that ended up being incredibly comforting to me. The story lines were fun and compelling, I liked that it always gave you enough info to try and think through the mystery, but not so much that it couldn't surprise you with a twist. I also love media that just hands you a bunch of fun characters with unique looks and personalities and shows you how they think and talk and move and how they interact with each other. It was like ace attorney was made specifically to appeal to me. So when i finished great ace attorney I wanted to go back and play every single main series games again, partly because I have an incredibly bad memory and by this time all I really remembered about them was "I enjoyed this when i was 19".
And for some reason I fell back into it hard. I don't know if it was due to the current state of the world and just needing that escapism so badly, or the fact that I realized there was still an active fandom, or even that I'm simply more self aware than I was before and found slightly new interpretations of things, but regardless I was fixated. It was honestly weird for me to begin with. I'm not used to being obsessed with things to this degree. I have my hyperfixations but they seem to come in waves, I get my 1-2 months of enjoyment out of something and then it fizzles out and I move on to something else. I am now 5 months in to my reignited ace attorney obsession and it is not slowing down. I am seeking out content at breakneck speed. I am reading fanfiction unironically for the first time in 26 years (AA has a cool habit of offhandedly mentioning something happened and then never elaborating on it and there are a lot of very talented canon-compliant writers filling in those gaps). I like to joke that I will never get a tattoo because there isn't anything I like enough to warrant getting it permanently on my body... I have now 80% convinced myself to get an ace attorney tattoo. So this is serious.
I think one thing that's changed between 2015 and now is that I've undergone a ton of personal growth and accumulated years of therapy (not to mention gotten an entire degree in overthinking), so now instead of just pointing vaguely at a gay lawyer in a blue suit and going "I like that :)" I actually understand what it is about these characters that I find so compelling. When you think about it (and both I and others have spent too much of our free time thinking about it) ace attorney deals a lot with themes of found family, trauma, and dealing with loss. Every character has their own struggles and hangups and I end up recognizing myself in a lot of them.
Like, its the way Phoenix Wright is self sacrificing to a fault. He takes on seemingly impossible tasks that no one else is willing to do and neglects his own wellbeing for the sake of people he cares about. He held his mentor as her body went cold in his arms and immediately took in her little sister, his best friend has left his life with no warning not once but twice, he's been assaulted, framed, nearly poisoned by someone he thought loved him, and he shoved all of that down to take care of everyone around him. Then after he gets disbarred its like it all catches up to him. He doesn't have the outlet of his job, and he just has to sit with everything for 7 years and now its his daughter that is the only reason he's still managing to hold the pieces of his life together.
And it's Miles Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma who are so interesting and have all these parallels and places where they diverge. Edgeworth had a loving father he looked up to until he was 9, and then it was all taken so suddenly, he feels personally responsible for it and has nightmares and flashbacks and panic attacks. Then after Manfred von Karma takes him in he doesn't see compassion again for 15 years, he is molded into the image of a perfect son and again we have the theme of pushing your own feelings down and not dealing with your trauma, but instead of sacrificing your own wellbeing for others its to appear strong and build up an emotional wall so no one knows that inside he's so deeply fucked up. He's scared of fucking everyone else up so he just pushes away any attempt to help him because this guilt that eats him makes him think he doesn't deserve the love that he desperately wants.
And Franziska is similar but even harder to reach because she didn't have those 9 years of a normal family. Emotional neglect and impossibly high standards are literally all she knows. When von Karma adopts Edgeworth he is immediately pitted against her and she devotes her life to being better than him. She calls herself perfect because thats what she's expected to be but she's violent and angry at everything around her and its because she's acting out these feelings she has towards her father and herself. Even after developing some tenuous relationships with the other characters she doesn't come as far as Edgeworth does because she doesn't know how. She doesn't know love or friendship or vulnerability and it will probably take a lifetime to undo the damage thats been done to her. I feel a lot for Franziska obviously.
I've already gone on so long, and thats not even beginning to mention the tragedy that is the Fey family, abandonment by Misty, betrayal by Morgan, the death of Mia, how Pearl's story is essentially her escaping from a cult. Then there's Diego Armando who makes me so fucking sad when I picture the void he must have lived in when he left the hospital and realized that not only was his girlfriend dead but he couldn't even get back at anyone for it because it had been tied up a long time ago so he's just left with this sadness and directionless anger towards nobody, but mostly towards himself. I'm not even going to touch the things i feel about Apollo Justice and Klavier Gavin because AA4 is really good and I could probably just make a whole post this length about that.
I don't really know what I was saying with all this but to sum up, trauma makes you weird and sometimes you just have to accept that your family isn't what you need and go out and find a new one.
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tamiddyinyourcity · 4 years
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12:47pm.
"Bitch that's my trash, you the maid, so you bagged him! Aah!" - Megan Thee Stallion.
Saturday, May 16th of 2020.
Whatever happened to Edwin? I think he might've died or something.
Edwin was that dude I always forget I fucked in 2019. A one night stand. Nothing remarkable about him, his dick game was atrocious, but he had a beautiful O-face, and interesting taste in house music.
And I forget when, why, or what context he spontaneously told me about his childhood trauma in, but it was sad. Never told anyone else about it in his life, and it was upsetting to hear how his family swept the horrifying details under the rug.
Not the first man I've met that simply never felt comfortable to tell people about it.
Not the first man I've known to hide a lot about their life, ever.
.....
He had Marco energy. The type to want me for sex and as a therapist, but otherwise, never wanted me for much else.
And despite knowing this, I still occasionally wonder how he was doing. Or, is. He could still be alive, but I wouldn't know, so....
Last I recall, he got spontaneously fired from his schoolteacher job, got in a terrible car accident, and had to move back in with his family, the ones that enabled his perpetrator not being imprisoned and tried to gaslight him into believing that his traumatic things never happened, as he had to be stripped of all privacy and sanctuary, with lots of broken bones unable to move.
I can't imagine the type of toll that had on him.
Last I remember, he kept telling me tons of things about himself that he never had told anyone. Apologized for how he treated me when we first met. (He was super scummy to me on our first bang, but eh, i respect his apology at least.)
Told me how he never feels comfortable enough to trust anybody with opening up about his emotions.
About how his life was hell for those few months.
Being lonely.
Being broke.
Maybe a little suicidal. But, I don't know if that's a full memory or not.
And of course, instead of asking to hang out, or openly talk face to face, he asked to fuck.
I said no, and how he could at least offer something to me pleasant, like a small chat over a sandwich, instead of just his penis.
He still hit me up from time to time....
.....
I worry for the guy, yknow?
Anyway.
Lots of men hide their emotions.
Almost every man I know.
I still can't forget how Patrick, the blonde one, who I genuinely loved so dearly back then in my own sense, (never tell him that,) hid from people for years about the incident.... that I'm not sure I still wanna repeat online. But, years of mourning over the loss of someone close, and not telling.... ANYBODY about it?
He developed a real complex about it over time, due to people not caring, and he got that "i cant make myself seem like a victim again" mentality that kills people every fucking year. It was hard to get him to open up about anything, like how abusive his mom was like hidden behind the allure of weekly baked, sweet-tooth level goods, and the flourishing greens of her gardens, or how much he missed his sibling, without him going "Haha nooooo, she's a real good lady I swear!", or "But I mean, I made myself REAL real whiney about it back then, so like, I just gotta remember that it doesn't matter now".... It's upsetting to know how many men will simply take things to the grave due to seeming like a burden.
That guy Tom I slept with, the night we had an also atrocious night of sex in the back of his Hummer, (classy,) told me about what an older neighbor did to him as a child. Never told a soul. He eventually told his dad, either after me or the same morning, but yknow... still, years of not being able to tell a single soul and letting it eat away at you like that..... Tom was a nice enough guy. I occasionally feel bad at that temper tantrum I threw at him over a seperate scenario, since he was a genuinely cool dude. I wonder how he's doing now.
And of course, Marco. Marco is a piece of shit, cheating loser of a person. He knows that. I tell him, often. But considering Marco befriends the type of people to spike his drinks with meth as a "prank", no wonder he usually ends up coming to me to talk. (And I'm not even a huge fan of him, firstly, so how bad must your friendships with others be if the girl you used to cheat on your girlfriend with is your ONLY option???)
But, I still sympathized with him. I never know his full story. I know his family dynamic is strained, and he was always forced not to cry, occasionally beaten, shit like that... Growing up with shitty parents and equally shitty peers, it never makes it easy. I feel bad for men, usually. Because it seems like the one time they feel able to open up, it's after sex, or only with a romantic or sexual partner in a brief period of pillowtalk, or during aftercare, or just anything.
Some will spill their whole life story at the slightest hint of conversation, then go "Whew! Damn, I haven't ever talked to someone like this before!" And It's like.... not even your... lifelong childhood friends?.... Not even the buddies you've had for 5 years?.... Not... anyone?....
But, not everyone's a listener. People apparently enjoy that I listen AND focus on what they say... It just makes me feel sad, knowing some people live in only a world where everyone talks but no one says what they mean, listens, nor cares when you do.
Tragic ass shit, man.
The amount of dudes who have told me about death in their families, abuse, drug use, molestation, tragedies, or overall traumatic things, and then just said "Wow, you're the first person I've ever told about that", makes me sort of want to cry.... Since it means something really terrible could've happened if they had told absolutely nobody at all.
I hope more men open up.
The annoying irony of knowing men that find it easier to lie than to be open about their emotions is also a thing.
Like, even if given the platform for honesty, one chooses to lie, as if they were not given a space to be vulnerable or reality for others......
It's a damn shame.
1:21pm.
I like honesty.
I like talking about my life without hiding it.
No one really cares either way.
The surprise of when people actually DO read or listen to what I say or make. Like, oh, wow, I made a difference to someone????
It may positively affect someone else, or open their view of me, life, or other things.
A cautionary tale.
I get to reread days for me, so that when the memory loss and the brain fritz kick in, I can still be aware of what's going on and things that may have happened.
If anything happens to me, which I hope it doesn't, I'd much prefer for people to know the events which happened, you know? You never know, really.
So, opening up is good for me.
Otherwise, bottling up has more consequences on the average person.
I've bottled up my life for years. I think I just stopped, around........ Hmm, 16? Or later? I just simply stopped caring.
I think once shit hit the fan in terms of:
The ceiling of my bedroom collapsing and not being repaired for half a year, and the lazy construction workers for my shithole building taped a sheet of plastic to the ceiling, that flapped cold air loudly and WILDLY through the room, leaving many nights sleepless. (Imagine the sound of someone flapping a trashbag open loudly right next to your ear.... Every fucking day and night in your bedroom for hours on end during winter.)
My shitty abusive mom becoming even more irate, when willingly bringing in my even more shithole abusive grandmother. (So imagine the last bulletpoint, paired with the thick smell of feces and unwashed old woman stink, and also, the sounds of an old woman staying up till 2am blaring Two and a Half Men on your fucking TV, knowing you have to wake up at 6:30am.... Plus, stomping, shouting swears, and shitting herself.)
My idiot ass mother decided to entirely get rid of the washer and dryer in our house, since... get this... she thought the dryer "didn't dry good enough". And threw out the washer, for no reason. Guess who was unable to have clean clothes for MONTHS since their mother is an "entirely perfect, or not at all" type, that didn't even bother getting a new washer, and just tossed out whole clothes cleaning system with no fucking replacement provided whatsoever?
The shitty construction guys also had procrastinated on fixing both non working showers in our unit.... One blasted steaming hot water 24/7 and never turned off. The other, had a mild drip. The idiots decided to fix the latter before the former; by straight up ripping the tub out of the fucking floor. Mosquitos from the outside came through the gaping hole in our floorboards and constantly stung all over my ass. No fun.
No privacy, safety, nothing.
And not eating.
Harrassment from exes.
More and more and more.
All together, guess which girl wanted to die all the fucking time? Meeee.
Guess who's family never could be relied on for even the smallest of things? Miiiiine.
Guess who turned to toxic relationships just to be able to have somewhere outside of the house to go to???? Also meeee.
And guess who's gonna need lots of therapy? Sadly, me. :)
1:44pm.
Frankly, talking shit about my family may piss em off a bit, but why? None of the shits a secret. When confronted, they prove my point.
They never care to better a situation, they never care to provide respect, they simply never care. And people probably forgot my mom even has a second daughter. (People tell me that often, if family events occur.)
So frankly, knowing I don't matter to people makes it easier to vent. No one would care! Easy! Aye!
Anyway, I'm gonna take a bath soon.
Relax, yknow? :)
Be safe. Love yalls. Be chill with others. Peace out.
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real-did · 7 years
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TW! I have experienced trauma in early childhood and Since coming to terms with it I've realised I've lost complete chunks of my life,even when the abuse had stopped years and years before. I don't know if this is normal or not? My whole life seems like a jumble of things, for example I feel like I can't remember last year at all apart from a few major events. I'm so forgetful and I keep having conversations with people and then not realising they happened etc? I'm so confused (I have bpd)
It sounds like you have cPTSD and are dissociating. Your experiences are pretty common- it’s very common that trauma victims lose “chunks” of their lives, especially in the case of childhood trauma. Dissociation due to childhood trauma and having a poor memory aren’t out of the ordinary for those with cPTSD, and generally therapy will help a lot with grounding and memory. 
However, there’s still a chance that there’s a physical health issue causing memory loss (such as seizures), so if you have the opportunity to see a doctor and talk about that, I would! There’s also a chance you have a dissociative disorder, and talking to a therapist might help you explore that. (I don’t think that’s what’s going on, but it is a possibility).
I hope this helps! Look into cPTSD some more if you’d like, I think it explains what’s going on!
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