Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD

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[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

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[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Comparing your pain to someone else's doesn't make your trauma smaller.... it just makes it harder to heal.
Your pain deserves attention because it happened to you.
When did you first start shrinking your trauma by comparing it?

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Your exhaustion isn't laziness. It's your nervous system depleted from constant survival mode.

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@DJG81405 ❤️ had hundreds of nights like that...keep working and healing, it gets better

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

PTSD makes it hard to sleep most nights without rest

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

people laugh when I say PTSD/CPTSD can be healed

But I've seen people who

>been raped/gang raped
>seen loved ones suicide
>been beat bloody by parent/spouse
>made choices that got friends killed in war

fully heal

healing is possible, seen it too manytimes to believe otherwise

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Nobody talks about how peace feels eerie after living with PTSD.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

If healing was guaranteed but it took 2 years of hard work... would you start today?

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@Stephadactyl Recovery? It looks like a complete elimination of symptoms. That's the end goal...but while recovering (if that was your question), is a lot of pain! And growth...but also doubt and uncertainty...but determination to see it through, and to face any pain necessary to win

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Healing trauma takes real energy, even when nobody can see you doing it.
Rest is part of the work, not a break from it.
What does recovery look like on your hardest days?

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@mediumchallenge @_KaMgabhi The thing is that it requires consistent work, dedication, and commitment to see it through...and not let anyone or anything tell you 'no' or that 'it's not possible'

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@mediumchallenge @_KaMgabhi It's 100% possible, it's very painful in the short term because you have to process the worst things that you've gone through....but in the long term that short term pain of processing is worth it a million times over because it's gone for good.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

In trauma recovery, the compound effect works both ways....small daily habits add up, so ask whether yours feed the positive or the negative.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@_KaMgabhi 🙏 thank you. a very painful process, but a very possible one!

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@mediumchallenge that's a great thing to notice, it reveals to you the exact thing (and entry point) to start healing :)

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Avoidance keeps your nervous system from reliving the danger.... it's PTSD protection that made sense once.
As you heal, the list of places you can't go gets shorter.
What place or person do you still steer around without thinking?

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Be strong. Be honest. Speak up.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

A cluttered house equals a cluttered mind. Keep your environment clean and organized.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

@viet_marine yes! and so good and necessary

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

The emotion you refuse to feel becomes the wall between you and everyone who tries to love you.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

The cruelest part of PTSD: You lose hours of your day to dissociation and don't know where they went.

[Brad Schipke | Overcoming PTSD @HealForGood]

Your body is doing what it needs to release the emotions. It’s okay.