Comments on: Jack in the Box – Part Two https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/05/28/jack-in-the-box-part-two/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Sun, 07 Mar 2021 05:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: C https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/05/28/jack-in-the-box-part-two/#comment-3901 Sun, 07 Mar 2021 05:44:23 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=230519#comment-3901 I’ve also seen people I would have considered friends, think it’s common to lose people like this during a time of growth. I look for different values in people now and I see what’s not good for me also.

]]> By: Micah Lyn https://cptsdfoundation.org/2020/05/28/jack-in-the-box-part-two/#comment-1095 Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:18:15 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=230519#comment-1095 Martin, I’ve just acknowledged my father’s emotional abuse from talking to my sister this last April 5th, at age 62. I’d always held him up as my hero until that date. I had always written off my cPTSD symptoms to 5 years of brutal high school bullying, but the news about my dad just all fell into place and it all fits. That knowledge woke up the inner, and then in turn, the outer critic with a vengeance. My trauma reaction ended up getting focused on my best friend for a very minor slight and she’ll never talk to me again. The relationship with her isn’t the first that has failed that way.

So I at least have found the foundation, I’ve been attending the daily support meetings for just over a week and I get great support if not an epiphany from almost every night’s call. And the new trauma of losing my friend has morphed into even more motivation to work on my cPTSD.

The wolf in your dreams, repeating night after night, woke up a memory of my childhood nightmares, it was always a man riding a tiger chasing me.

Thank you for your writings, every new perspective helps me with my own. Micah Lyn.

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