#life after trauma

[healing-better-faster-stronger]

If you have experienced a trauma, it can be like staring directly at the sun.

Even after you look away, the glare seems everywhere and prevents you from seeing things clearly.

It can keep you from even opening your eyes at all for a while.

Life After Trauma: A Workbook For Healing

#mine #quote #trauma recovery #ptsd recovery #ptsdawareness #trauma stuff #trauma survivors #trauma support #life after trauma #healing #self help #psychology #links

[forestkiss]

some vent art i have made while struggling with ptsd and living after trauma

#vent art #personal vent #naturecore #ptsd recovery #ptsd #living with ptsd #life after trauma #original art #my art

[traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors]

Can i please get some reassurance that it's not too late for me to achieve things and live a more normal life after the trauma i've been through? It's so hard feeling like i'm behind everyone else my age (25) :( <3

Hi anon, 

Thank you for reaching out and sharing, because unfortunately this is not an uncommon concern for many of us.  I do believe society/culture has an impact around this notion (whether it stems from ageism, mortality and/or a kind of hustle mindset for “self made” status, or perhaps it’s a bit of everything) but in my opinion, it can permeate through media, and intergenerational ideals.  Then, add trauma which has been shown to impact not only our self worth but development, and I can empathize with how discouraging it might feel moving forward in life. 

I think the biggest and most immediate hurdle to overcome is to slowly heal and embrace that you are worthy of the same inherent dignity as anyone else (and I’m not sure if you already have a support system in place to help with that) but since you specifically referenced your age and seeking validation that “it’s not too late,” I’ll stick to resources in terms of dismantling the cultural ideal of a time limit for achieving a full life based on age:

7 Reasons Why It’s Never Too Late In Life (spoiler: my fave was “There’s no time limit on self improvement) 

It’s Never Too Late To Change Your Life (spoiler: I loved that they listed a few examples of actors, chefs and athletes who didn’t start their careers until they were midlife and one was in their 80s!)  This article has some mindfulness questions at the bottom to help build self awareness and tips

30+ Reasons Why It’s Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been (lists 30 people who got their breaks, achievements, recognitions later in life)

I hope the articles validate, and encourage, you along your healing journey, 

- Mod Kat

#trauma talks #never too late in life #life after trauma #healing after trauma #mod kat

[livingnotonlysurviving]

I’ve been in the hospital for a week, with a kidney injury and major stomach issues. It’s been hell but I’ve been very well supported. My bf has been here the whole time being so kind and loving. My partner is visiting in a couple days. Friends visit and bring me juice and crafts and video games since I can’t have food. My dnd campaign made me a nice card and found me a very cool rock. Lucky to be loved even during some of the worst pain of my life.

#chronic pain #chronically ill #life after trauma #actually autistic

[isolde-serpentia]

I am Isolde

I once loved a man too deeply, and this is the end result.

I've become a shadow of what and who I used to be. 10 years of it, and I'm in too deep.

I can't give myself to another man, again. Nor do I want to.

I was, and still am, accused of being unfaithful, lying, manipulating, you name it. I did none of it. I gave and gave and gave until I didn't recognize myself.

He spit down my throat, degraded me every chance he had, even threatened to find other women if I didn't fuck him when he wanted it.

Accused me of always up to no good, when I was stupidly loyal to him. All the while, he has other women on rotation.

He is almost 50 years old, and looks for women with trauma because it's easier to manipulate them. Not to mention, he has gravitated to associating himself with folks he is old enough to be their father... A blue collar background still living a blue collar life but manipulated white collared folks due to their psychology backgrounds to make himself feel validated. It's only a matter of time before they see through his mask.

I've turned into a complete basket case over him. I don't even care, either. I travel in large groups of one, and I have more than one reason for it.

I wish he could have grown up instead of emotionally keeping himself stunted. As well as spiritually & mentally... I am no professional, but he is a classic narcissistic sociopath.

He destroyed me.

Now, I'm navigating the pieces to pick up and what to rebuild.

Sad truth is, if he walked up to me and said, "Honey, can we please try this again?"

I know I would cave.

I'm in too deep.

And this is the end result.

#heartbreak #healing journey #self discovery #self improvement #self reflection #self realization #life after divorce #life after trauma #life after abuse #spiritualgrowth #spirituality #spiritual healing #shadow work #accountability #no shame #therapy

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF movie Mike learns more about Michael’s childhood..

#myart #chloesimagination #comic #mike schmidt #michael afton #fnaf #fnaf movie #fnaf 4 #nightmare animatronics #plushtrap #nightmare bonnie #nightmare chica #nightmare foxy #nightmare freddy #fnaf fanart #five nights at freddy's #Michael hasn’t had a good nights sleep for literally most of his life #Mike might feel a little better about his sleeping habits #especially after hearing all that #Michael continues to win the ‘childhood trauma’ contest #my man deserves a good nights rest.. #that being all said Michael your nightmares are rad af #hope you get that therapy king 🙏🏾

[merbabylvr]

#life after trauma

[clouvu]

Nothing in the world belongs to me But my love, mine, all mine

#genshin impact #arlecchino #peruere #clervie #ouhhhhhhhh im never gonna be able to emotionally recover from watching that animated short #ever since it came out a couple days ago just thinking of these two makes me feel like my heart is physically being ripped in half #i cant stop thinking about how Clervie was the only person in Arlecchino's life that she truly loved #like dont get me wrong Arlecchino loves her children in her own detached-fucked up way as much as any person with her amount of trauma can #but Clervie meant so much to her that even just her presence alone kept Arle's curse at bay #and it seems that no one other than Clervie herself has ever been able to break this unemotional/detached wall that Arle has put up #and maybe no one else ever will #DONT GET ME WRONG I still fw arle x other female harbingers like that shit is still peak #but oh my god the idea that arle never moved on after clervie's death and will never love anyone the way she loved her makes me want to SOB

[rustedhills]

Disney, releasing Wish: "so it's all about legacy--the new generation surpassing the old, overcoming the evils perpetuated by them, relinquishing singular power... and there's an old man in a tower, uh... animal sidekick, i guess..., ah... magic...?

Miyazaki, just out of frame, sledgehammer raised:

#the boy and the heron #not tagging wish 'cause i'm being a little acidic #this isn't to be negative in the slightest--I really respect both films--but it's interesting to see how visceral boy+H gets with its story #what evils have to be rejected and what they represent--and how characters and the world suffer from those evils--as well as how the whole #'rejecting' part goes. in terms of animation powerhouses discussing their legacies - disney and miyazaki both - I find it interesting that #one makes a pretty safe and nostalgic movie about imagination and dreams; the other is a long trudge through the land of the dead. #b+h is a hard watch - and a look at the legacy of a man questioning his whole purpose in the world - after his cultural touchstones #have long passed by. Mahito needs to understand his grief to keep living--but if he drowns in it he'll just continue the cannibalistic and #violent world of his granduncle. how the hell do you make art when the trauma of your entire life has colored it forever? How can anyone? #maybe after a while... it's time to detonate that damn tower and keep living. #this is to say #if you have enough money to make whatever you want #Make It Fucking Count

[dykealloy]

#the visual juxtaposition between the dark and the light is really... just.... #Luffy's rays of sunshine beaming down on this sceptic so hard it breaks him from his life-long childhood trauma-induced stupor of nihilism. #anyway. #sorry for weeb posting again the classic lotr themes of light and joy in the world that are still worth fighting for really got to me #arc after arc luffy becomes someone's hope and i eat that shit up every time #CJ's op watch-through #im not up to wano arc yet but. much to think about. #one piece spoilers #one piece #op #trafalgar law #trafalgar d water law #lawlu #gear 5 luffy #sun god nika #monkey d. luffy #have you heard about our lord and saviour luffy etc etc etc #op meta

[russenoire]

that scene in season 1 where teruki hanazawa exorcises ekubo mid-sentence... and shigeo's eyes widen in shock?

i really want to talk about it, specifically the explosion meter accompanying it.

normally, when the teenager's emotions aren't obvious to the audience, that meter relays to us a sense of what he is actually feeling. but we cannot trust the meter here. we see it jump up a few points at teru's 'psycho wave' sending the sleazy ghost to the shadow realms, and remain steady at 50% upon shigeo's recollections of the spirit's unsavory nature. the boy outright tells teru that he isn't bothered. and it's funny!

but shigeo isn't being honest with himself here either.

his face briefly gives his feelings away before resettling into its normal flat affect. (to be fair, what he's really feeling isn't teru's business. this kid is trying to provoke a fight out of him, after all.) after he's basically tortured into exploding, shigeo spends three hours in the pouring rain, searching everywhere for ekubo.

three. hours.

these are not the actions of someone who isn't bothered. letting himself get drenched to the point of sickness,

even though he literally holds the power to shield himself from it,

reads to me like unconscious self-punishment for allowing all this to happen.

after a large chunk of his short life spent denying and fearing them for good reason, shigeo's first impulse is often not to use his psychic powers -- even after his integration at the story's end. i wish this was discussed more, because many watchers cannot fathom why this boy with world-breaking psychic abilities would ever refuse to use them.

also: the explosion meter lying to us / representing shigeo's detachment from his own emotions alexithymia may occur elsewhere in the series as well, especially when he's not close to an explosion; i'm reminded of the tiny dent ritsu's provocation of him makes in it a few episodes later.

#mob psycho 100 #mp100 #mp100 meta #alexithymia #unreliable narrator #self blame #self flagellation #mp100 s1 rewatch #trauma #tw death mention #this boy often does not think to use the power he has #it's something i wish was talked about more #there are good reasons why #he won't use his powers to solve his problems #even when they actually can and he probably should #because they're capable of doing and have done real fucking damage #life on hard mode on purpose? #i think he'd be even less comfortable using them after outwardly fighting with himself #at least for some time afterwards #this should be another post #700 #kageyama shigeo #分析

[whumpypepsigal]

Lockwood & Co. s01e05: “What the hell was that?… You were practically begging him to kill you.“

#whumpedit #whump #lockwood and co #lockwood & co #locklyle #anthony lockwood #lucy carlyle #cameron chapman #ruby stokes #trauma #angst #you can talk to me #emotional whump #lockwood & co spoilers #my gifs #this scene comes right after lucy saves him from the torturer where he begged the torturer to kill him instead and let lucy go #the fact lucy wants lockwood to know that he is important to her and george and that his life matters… my whumpy heart #he has so many internal issues and trauma that he keeps ignoring and denying… by being charming/smiley jokey as a deflection #oh s02 is going to super emotional and angsty can’t wait… *throwing tomatoes at netflix* they better renew it #i wanna see my found family supporting anthony through his trauma

[soloorganaas]

i just read this sentence in hp lexicon:

But the most important defensive measure the Lupin taught Harry was outside of class, the Patronus Charm, "Expecto Patronum" which he used to save himself and his godfather, Sirius Black, from Dementors

and i cannot believe it took me until today to connect the dots that remus was indirectly responsible for saving sirius’s life

#in my head i was always like oh yeah patronus saves harry protects him from his traumas etc etc #i have read PoA 200000000 times #this is so embarrassing but i am also full of a lot of Feelings rn #wolfstar #fam: christmas gift #hp #like all that time he thought sirius was guilty he was inadvertently teaching harry what he needed to know to stop the love of remus's life #who was actually innocent from being lost to him forever just after he'd got him back #i am so upset

[livingnotonlysurviving]

I’m having Big feelings for my crush. And for good reasons too. Xe is sweet, creative, kind, easy to talk to and fun to be around. I haven’t been masking (autism or CPTSD/ DID) and xe still wants me in their life. We’ve been dating for over a month, so not too long. I had a couple bad break ups (and one not so bad break up) recently and so I’m worried about this lovely thing ending. I’m doing my best to enjoy it while it’s happening though.

#actually autistic #CPTSD #life after trauma #t4t

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I love Jiang Cheng and I hope you agree. The most tragic thing about yunmeng siblings is that JC and WWX really love each other the whole time… I like to think they can fix it someday

Someday perhaps....in the meantime, I bet he's loving having dogs run around lotus pier. As a WWX deterrent of course. No therapeutic reasons at all.

#Poorly Drawn MDZS #MDZS #Jiang Cheng #As much as I put him on blast #I do like JC quite a bit. #Man....I'm sad you're on anon cause I'd love to talk more about the yunmeng sibiling tragedy #Part of me so badly wishes that they do reconcile after some time #though a good tragedy comes from the pain of what could have been #JC is definitely in my top 5 mdzs characters and its absolutely due to how messy he is #ngl I can kinda relate to where his hurt comes from and it makes it very interesting to analyze. #Favourism and antagonism of parents messes up sibling dynamics so much #The grief and trauma ended up causing a rift not a shared moment of solidarity #JC is a counter-representation and a foil to how LWJ deals with his grief #as heartbroken as LWJ is he...keeps his life going. The grief settles and he doesn't forget but he *moves forwards* #JC doesn't! He can't! He has so much guilt and regret and the grief stagnates him! Love and grief can become so terribly consuming! #He's so human for it! This is a story where no-one is morally black or white! *People* aren't black and white!

[very-uncorrect]

One of my favourite early years Sonic and Tails dynamics is Sonic deciding he's gonna adopt Tails after approximately 2 seconds of knowing of his existence whilst little toddler Tails is terrified that Sonic is gonna abandon him like everyone else even after months of them travelling together

#little fox doesn't realise this dude would lay down his life for him in a moment's notice #sonic calls him little bro for the first time and tails is caught so off guard (but is so so happy after gettong over the shock) #sonic and tails #miles tails prower #sonic the hedgehog #tails the fox #unbreakable bond #they're brothers your honor #cosmic truth #tails has abandonment issues #he starts crying once he finally realises that he's got a permanent family #this 8 year old fox can fit so much childhood trauma in it