Comments on: Managing CPTSD Symptoms in the Workplace – Part 1 https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/03/23/managing-cptsd-symptoms-in-the-workplace-part-1/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:27:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Mya https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/03/23/managing-cptsd-symptoms-in-the-workplace-part-1/#comment-19423 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 04:22:30 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=240053#comment-19423 In reply to Rachel.

I appreciate this post. I take some issue with the concept we can somehow deny that we are in control of our lives. CPTSD is a survivor’s illness and it’s only an issue when the monsters go back in the closet. And for many of us, those monsters do go back in the closet. Some grow old and frail. Some die. Some fade away. Some shrink in size and become little and weak. It’s really lonely when you’re left in the room alone and now your monsters don’t even show. I agree that I work hard and extremely well, but I found myself failing to connect with my peers because I was afraid of tarnishing the brilliant veneer I had successfully encased my shame in. I just needed to look ok. I needed them to see my work was OK. I needed my deliverables to speak for my soul and… honestly — it’s just not enough. Your boss was right, but quite honestly, I wish there was a way to explain how different the world was to us. And how we survived and that only means the body lives. That’s all it means.

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]]> By: Rachel https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/03/23/managing-cptsd-symptoms-in-the-workplace-part-1/#comment-15224 Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:52:17 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=240053#comment-15224 Cyndi,
All three of your posts on this blog site are dead on accurate for me. Every day is a major struggle due to the type of neglect, abandonment and abuse (mental and emotional) I suffered. While I am not stupid, that is the message that plays inside my head all of the time. At the age of 68, I have much bitterness, grief, anger and frustation surrounding what I might have been able to accomplish if not for the fear from all-encompassing CPST I suffer every day and justabout every hour of every day.

Your posts on this site are invaluable in reminding me I am not alone and all of the mistaken diagnoses were NOT me (Everthing from bi-polar to depression to hystrionic and just plain “unstable”). The habits of a lifetime are difficult if not downright impossible to surmount, but as you said, resilience is our “super power”.

Thank you and these posts would make a great book.

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