The first part of healing from trauma is going back over the causes of trauma, so we can understand it and reprocess it in a safe environment. It's hard. Its incredibly painful. And we often learn things about ourselves that are hard to live with for a while.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're going to talk about Growing Up Broken--how just existing as a trans kid is inherently, and terribly, traumatic.
One of the hardest parts of recovering from trauma is realizing--really facing--that our trauma doesn't end until we choose to end it. We carry it with us, reinflicting it upon ourselves, because the pain becomes so familiar.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we face the truth of how we use Slivers of our own trans trauma to keep that pain alive in ourselves. Forever, unless we choose to stop.
Facing a complex trauma diagnosis is usually terrifying. After all, if we have complex trauma, it means we've endured some of the worst pain people can endure.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, the incredible Joscelyn Inton-Campbell walks us through coming to terms with complex trauma, in Complex Trauma Disorder? I hardly knew her!, a Facets article.
Recovering from cPTSD can be a difficult journey--but it can be the difference between surviving and thriving, for many trans people.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we'll be Holding the Girl with @JoscelynTransient as she shares one of the most tender moments I think has ever been published on SGW. Come join us to learn more about recovering from trauma, EMDR therapy, and why it's important to take the time to heal.
I met a gentleman a bit ago, and my time talking to him about transmasculine erasure and living in deep stealth. It touched me deeply, and I think you ought to hear about his journey.
This week on #StainedGlassWoman, we're going to take a long, hard look at The Glass Closet, where so many of us wind up after transition, how high the price of living in stealth can be, and where the line between authenticity and privacy lies.
Healing from trauma can be almost indescribably painful--but as with anything to do with being trans, we are never our pain.
We are our incandescent joy.
This Christmas on #StainedGlassWoman, we are, appropriately, going to be celebrating A Million Twinkling Shards of Light: post-traumatic growth, where healing trauma can transform who you are and shape the course of the rest of your life.
Je me représente ma sortie des #trauma comme l’intérieur blanc d’une boîte, un peu comme un mini congélateur au-dessus du frigo, voyez? Et le travail psychologique, c’était d’enlever toute la saleté noire dont cette boîte était remplie, d’abord par grosses poignées (2020 EMDR, 2021 reprise d’études, 2022 neurofeedback).
En 2023, j’en étais à dégager les coins avec un genre de balai (bilan de compétences, réorientation). Début 2024, j’ai méticuleusement nettoyé les coins avec un coton tige et la pointe d’un couteau, ensuite j’ai tout lavé à l’eau puis essuyé (écartement des PN).
Et voilà, ma boîte est toute belle toute propre ! 😁
Dal momento che si sente spesso parlare di violenza, psicologica e fisica, principalmente sulle donne (e conseguentemente anche in famiglia, dove sono coinvoltə bambinə), ma non si parla in alcun modo sufficientemente degli 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪 che la violenza ha sul cervello, sullo sviluppo e sulle relazioni interpersonali, faccio un piccolo thread con qualche articolo per informarsi a riguardo.
Una vittima non sceglie di avere un trauma, lavorarci è essenziale per salvarsi ma le cicatrici resteranno.
È bene sapere che cosa ha passato, che conseguenze ha subito e come comportarsi.
Voilà un article de vulgarisation très synthétique qui donne des infos sur la #psychotherapie assistée par les #psychédéliques.
Il y a des recherches et des applications cliniques dans beaucoup de pays particulièrement en cas de #trauma. Dans le cas de l'article en question ça montre les bénéfices possibles de l'usage de la MDMA pour diminuer la souffrance psychique quand des thérapies type #EMDR montrent leurs limites.
Bien entendu, il ne suffit pas de prendre de la MDMA seul·e dans son coin pour avoir des effets thérapeutiques. Il faut avoir un produit de qualité et connaitre le dosage adapté, avoir fait un travail de préparation en amont, être accompagné·e par une personne de confiance compétente sur le sujet (trauma et psychédéliques). Mais ça ouvre vraiment des perspectives thérapeutiques et de l'espoir pour beaucoup de personnes et ça c'est vraiment super !
Ayé, suis censée signer mon nouveau contrat aujourd’hui, et mon angoisse post-traumatique a décidé que dormir, c’était pour les faibles 😭
Etat des #trauma : la vase a bien été évacuée (EMDR), et on a bien nettoyé jusque dans les coins (neurofeedback), mais y’a rien à faire, l’empreinte des maltraitances reste dans les croyances limitantes (même si ça commence à aller mieux) et dans les angoisses nocturnes. Rdv samedi matin avec une traumatologue pour commencer à gérer ça. Jusque là, tenir. 😮💨
Ich wurde vergangenen Mittwoch und gestern Abend retraumatisiert. Der zweite Vorfall gestern fiel leider in meine prämenstruelle Phase, weshalb es mir jetzt sehr schlecht geht. Das am Mittwoch habe ich noch relativ gut verkraftet, aber das gestern dann nicht mehr. Ich habe jetzt Angst, dass es mir nun wieder über meine prämenstruelle Phase hinaus für Wochen oder Monate schlecht gehen wird. Mir ging es doch erst besser in letzter Zeit!
Something more folks should talk about:
A hard thing to recognize as trauma survivors is when we're stuck in scarcity mindset.
Scarcity mindset shows up as conserving resources, or as fears and defensive reactions around other people using resources (especially shared resources, but even their own).
We can develop scarcity mindset from past scarcity experiences, but also from traumatic situations (aka, both). Scarcity mindset is also absorbed and exacerbated from people around us.
It is very hard to recover from scarcity mindset without abundant resources — and hard to perceive or recognize abundance when we have it, and still hard to recover.
A laboratory found a pattern of cell damage that has been seen in #veterans exposed to #weapons blasts, & said it probably played a role in the gunman’s spiral into #violence.
Something I haven’t talked about publicly because I’m scared someone in my family will see it:
In trying to heal my #BPD and #cPTSD I’ve had to dig deep into my childhood and look for the roots of my #trauma.
And this time… I found them. Or rather - “it”. There is just one root for all of my many many many mental health troubles and life issues for as long as I remember.
It’s my mother.
My mother, who I still maintain contact with. She was my abuser.
Lots of potential for vicarious traumatization due to videos (with sound) from Israel... be aware of that before clicking on videos of people being killed, bleeding to death, screaming, lying dead on the ground, etc. etc. (sound off, or better yet don't subject yourself to it if it's not for a good reason) #Israel#Gaza#MentalHealth#news#trauma
Hé, petite anecdote de la sortie des #trauma : ce matin, je me suis réveillée en me sentant "comme quand j'étais petite fille". C'était une sensation très agréable, et en même temps totalement inhabituelle.
Et là, je crois que j'ai compris : je me suis réveillée en me sentant en sécurité, parce que mon fils était là pour moi. C'est dingue non?
Bon, maintenant, l'objectif c'est de me sentir tous les matins comme ça, même quand mon fils n'est pas là 😊
(oui, je suis quelqu'une de déterminée 😋 ; et en même temps, je sais que c'est possible grâce à la plasticité cérébrale (allez lire, c'est épatant!) )
That moment when you're complaining to a family member about a relative's super toxic behavior and they proceed to unpack 80 years of family #trauma beginning with the aftermath of #WWII and onward...