In last week’s post, I talked about how COMMON it is for people with CPTSD and Childhood PTSD to experience being isolated, and being lonely.
Loneliness is part of life, at least a little bit, for everyone. But for a lot of people who experienced early trauma, it’s like a curse we carry, that touches everything in our lives and almost never gets talked about.
So in this post, I’m going to keep talking about isolation, along with one of the biggest obstacles to healing it, and that’s the fact that people are triggering for us. It’s just true!
People are intense, they’re sometimes angry or annoying or dangerous — they sometimes seem to be judging us or manipulating us, or sometimes they’re so just so cool and beautiful they’re intimidating. It doesn’t take much with us; the dysregulation of CPTSD gets triggered and we lose confidence in our ability to be in that moment without making a fool of ourselves or getting hurt — or hurting someone else. And those feelings can leave us with a powerful impulse to pull away and hide — to isolate. We have a 100 ways of doing that.
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