mental-health
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I don’t mean to expose my parents in written context to the outside world. Although when you have two parents each suffering with their own mental health conditions, you don’t want them to feel regret about what they’ve done to you, but merely find out who was psychologically abusing you so you can reclaim your
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To analyse his quote into context from the same mind who understands, what Hemingway really means is, he looks okay on the outside, but inside – his brain was inner turmoil that bled his past traumas on to the page. Everyone forgot I was suffering too. Hemingway’s brain changed. He went through the CPTSD catastrophic
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I have a tally chart. Lists of names of the people who have ever hurt me. Lists of institutions that have ever brought me down. Lists of degrading comments I’ve received. More and more lists. Accused of being narcissistic for being Autistic. Real Autism. But, I couldn’t get help from the system in the same
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Living with a dad with real NPD, and ADHD, I had to learn at a very young age to tread on eggshells. When I exposed my crisis, I also wanted to see what others perceptions of me were when they saw the CPTSD attacks, mixed with the rapid cycling bipolar symptoms. I encountered the word
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The police said they need evidence. I’m publicly posting evidence. Not out of spite, but because I am tired of having to defend myself when I’ve stood on my own two feet in life. Ernest Hemingway is the only person I can trust. He was broken by the system too. He was scared. He was
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I also have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – which is a little bit different to my CPTSD. PTSD is like a whole other universe. I analysed recently my PCL-5 score: It was 75 a few months ago, it’s now at 68. I am praying I can get the score lower to at least in mid-range scores.
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Me and my recent ex partner understand each other in ways no one else will. We just were never meant to be together. We knew that quite early on in the relationship. We stopped sleeping together about a year ago, but I knew if I had to leave – because of the 2018 incident with
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I like being single, consumed in my own thoughts in both its bitterness and glory. Relationships are difficult. Not because I want them to be, but because I will experience multiple physical symptoms when I’m in a relationship and not experiencing my separate PTSD attacks. I don’t make friends with anyone at university, mostly because
CPTSD/Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified 