Hello everyone. I just came across OOTS a few days ago and I am very glad that I did.
Posting on ang kind of forum is new to me...so I hope I'm doing it correctly.
Over the past ten years I have been on a slow road to understand and accept who I am. Diagnoses and traits that I have come to understand as describing me include:
Insecurely attached
EUPD /BPD
Codependant
Narccisistic
Dissociation
Over the past few months I have learned about cPTSD and I find this a very accurate and helpful way of thinking about my experiences and responses to them.
Engagement with my family of origin has become hugely retraumatising and for the past 2.5 years I have had extremely limited contact with them. This has been very difficult but is essential for me to stay healthy.
I am looking forward to providing any support that I can to others on the forum, and being part of a community that understands what it is actually like to live with cPTSD.
R
Welcome Rol47, I'm sorry for all you've endured but glad you found this forum.
There are a lot of good, caring folks here.
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Hi and welcome to OOTS Rol47 :heythere: It is helpful to read through the symptoms and other members' experiences to see yourself and what caused you to develop CPTSD. I find having a community of peers who get it to be extremely helpful in my recovery. I don't wonder what's wrong with me anyone more, I see instead why I react or feel the way I do based on what I went through.
I hope the forum is helpful for you as well.
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks for the steer Kizzie. I think seeing myself in other people's experiences will be very helpful.
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Welcome Rol47 :heythere:
Hope :)