neurodiversity
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So my CPTSD is new. My first PTSD attacks were in 2018. My timeline went all wrong. Everything just came up at once when I entered the ni-ti loop. So it really was England who destroyed my brain by telling the police to ignore me in 2018? Right. Okay. I understand why they like to…
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The future is cooked mate. It’s a fried egg on steroids.
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I will admit, I thought my life was over in 2018. I was so so frightened. So scared. I was getting the same level of discrimination from mental health services I am experiencing now, and it lead me nearly end my life. I had a nice social worker though who prompted me to take Sertraline…
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The one thing that’s hard about all this is not the betrayal by the very people who should be supporting us, but the brick wall you’re in within your brain. The brain feels like it’s damaged. I’ve had stutters in speech, pacing, outbursts of emotion, and multiple symptoms. I’m not even a whistleblower. I had…
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I’ve been to many BPD groups and whilst there, having ADHD myself, I could only see myself surrounded by neurodivergents with rejection sensitivity dysphoria. There were one or two people with real BPD (dissociative PTSD) like me, but I realised when they changed the labels and watching other peoples experiences of getting diagnosed with EUPD…
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This is separate to my CPTSD and PTSD. Being born AuDHD I had to learn to mask from a very early age because ASD and ADHD runs in my family but it’s rare in the girls, but every one of the boys have it. We can go into an NI-TI loop. It feels like a…
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NPD and ADHD is often confused either one another because they can display eerily similar symptoms. So from growing up I’m going to provide an insight in my dad’s NPD and his ADHD. My dads ADHD: Restlessness Quick to anger Criminal activity which was worse in his younger years Always losing things, misplacing his keys…
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I love Sia, mostly because I can relate to her. We both have Complex PTSD and are neurodivergent. It’s a paradox – but we can learn to harness our creativity.
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I attended the distress brief intervention so I can calm down the troublesome behaviours associated with both types of my PTSD recently. It was helpful so I could stabilise a little better before doing trauma work with my CPN and social worker. I was born autistic too. But people always say “you don’t look autistic”.…
CPTSD/Disorders of extreme stress not otherwise specified 