The kid who had to read the room to survive became the adult who can't stop scanning for danger.
Hypervigilance isn't a flaw. It's a scar.
#CPTSD#Trauma
She's not psycho ...not dumb..she was manipulated.
She's not shy.. she's guarding herself .
She's not bitter, she's speaking the truth.
She's not stuck, she's been brutally damaged.
Most govt officials,
When you're polite to them, they act like a king. But when you speak their language, they feel offended. They're like a one-eyed king in the land of the blind.
Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it
Avoiding your triggers isn't healing. Healing happens when you're triggered and you're able to move through the pain, the pattern, and the story and walk your way to different ending.
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”-C.S. Lewis