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I recovered from PTSD — Now I help others do the same 💥 Follow for daily recovery tips 💥 Ready to heal? Join my PTSD recovery program below 👇

Connecticut
Joined February 2023
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Psychiatry treats everuthing like a brain chemistry problem. When it's usually a trauma problem.
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The intense emotions, the fear of abandonment, the rocky relationships.... they often make sense once you look at what someone lived through. A label can describe the symptoms without ever naming the trauma behind them.
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Were you ever given a diagnosis that left your trauma out of the picture?
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Forcing positive thoughts on top of unreleased trauma pain fails because your body screams that the new thought is a lie.
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When PTSD makes getting out of bed take everything you have. You can still fully recover from it.
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Things that make sense when you have PTSD: Apologizing for existing.
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When trauma freezes every area of life, any change is a big deal.
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Stop measuring your worth by their standards. Start defining it by your values.
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Being humiliated and ridiculed by a sibling growing up can leave you with CPTSD, terrified of everyone and ashamed of who you are.
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"I laugh real laughter. I'm off medications. I'm sober after years of numbing the anxiety with alcohol." Bonnie Years of numbing her PTSD with alcohol. Today she's sober, and off her medications with her doctor.
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Nobody tells you processing trauma means temporarily feeling worse before you feel better.
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The cruelest part of PTSD: it can shrink your whole world to one room.
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Unsafe people resist character growth.
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PTSD can manifest as a disturbing emotional flatness, where individuals appear unnaturally calm and detached.
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PTSD Recovery Skool | Free Trial Start healing today 👇 Link in bio "Is PTSD brain damage?"
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Stop seeking their understanding. Start understanding yourself.
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PTSD Recovery Skool | Free Trial Start healing today 👇 Link in bio "What job is PTSD most common in?"
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My client Rebecca spent 12 years trying to feel safe. She moved apartments. Changed jobs. Ended relationships. Tried different friends, cities, therapists. She was convinced that if she could just find the right external circumstances, she would finally feel secure internally.
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She excelled at work because she wasn't constantly in fight-or-flight. So if you've been chasing external safety – through relationships, achievements, possessions, places – and still feel that persistent sense of danger lurking...
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Maybe it's time to stop running and start looking inward. Because true safety isn't something you find. It's something you create within yourself. And once you have it, nothing and no one can take it away. — BRAD
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