Comments on: The Tragedy of Never Feeling Safe https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: How to feel safe after trauma: A thoughtful guide https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-48767 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:00:58 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-48767 […] It affects the ability to have healthy interpersonal relationships. Some people adapt to complex trauma by devising ways to keep themselves in a chronic state of hyperarousal. Usually professional help from a therapist or counselor is needed to overcome it [4]. […]

]]> By: Noreen Statler https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-26474 Thu, 11 Jul 2024 12:20:26 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-26474 Hi,

I am a senior with c-ptsd. And i really need help. Especially since Covid19. Have autoimmune problems. I have medicare insurance but healthcare since Covid19 has been difficult to get response. And, providers can be very hard to access. I have lost alot of hope.

I want to move, am a baby boomer.
Any ideas.

]]> By: Shirley Davis https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-22051 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:42:17 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-22051 In reply to sophia.

We write the blog to help anyone we can who are survivors of complex trauma, including you. We offer programs too. They do cost something but we also offer scholarships. Please, contact support for more information. Good luck on your journey. Shirley

]]> By: sophia https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-22046 Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:32:52 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-22046 I don’t understand this organization web design. Is it to help individuals or groups? I’m trying to find help for myself mental help issues. Please. Just let me know if this site is for individuals or something else so i can move on to look for help. This journey is enough to make you want to quit everything.

]]> By: Shirley Davis https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-17995 Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:44:12 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-17995 In reply to Grant England.

Please, seek help from a mental health professional. Look for someone with trauma-informed training. If you can’t find someone in your area, consider telehealth. Take care of yourself; we care about you. Shirley

]]> By: Grant England https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-17993 Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:47:39 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-17993 In reply to Linda Senne.

I have had trauma that I don’t understand for years. I was adopted and that messed up my identity issues then I was sexually molested when I was young and my parents sort of swept it under the rug. I struggled with drug addiction for about 10 years and recently got clean. But with all the coping skills I’ve learned and gained I’ve recently found my self back in my frozen stage just trapped in fear for no reason. I need help and don’t have the money to pay for therapy. I feel like I can’t breathe. I feel like I’m just done.

]]> By: Elizabeth Woods https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-17854 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:34:50 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-17854 Hi Shirley, I’ve just read this post. It’s a great read as always. I posted a similar article recently of living through a magnifying glass. It’s about what it feels like to be in the hyper-state. I’ve struggled with this all my life and I use grounding techniques and writing.

]]> By: Patrick White https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-17851 Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:08:56 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-17851 Introduction
Hardly a two-year-old, the traumatized Ricardo faces a world no child should ever be exposed to. Imagine the abject terror that could carry a child to the brink of madness, a fear so consuming that he wet his pants at the sight of his abuser, forced to live in the same space, enduring the threat this stranger brought every time the dark-ringed eyes found him, helpless, unable to ward off the real monster in the room, daily a prisoner held in his crushing grasp, the unbearable mortal fear of death because he knew in the certainty that was what the man wanted, the tone of voice the imprint of horror. Words that intoned his fate yet to be learned. A child’s mind, the internal scream of injustice, at insane beatings ignored, forever scarred by the betrayal of his Mother sitting upright, avid, even excited in wide-eyed approval of every blow, every word spat upon him. Guttersnipe is the story of the root cause of a lifetime of C-PTSD, a boy born in 1956. The escape, the journey through the eye of the needle as Ricardo, after eleven years of painful physical abuse, all because of his mirror-like similarity to his father, the forces of dysfunction and injustice drive the child to become a street vagrant, a child runaway at twelve years old slipping into adulthood, the incredible journey of survival in Apartheid torn South Africa alone and ghosted by dysfunction, a witnessed and verified truth of a life lived with C-PTSD sixty-six years later. Pandora opened her box.

]]> By: Shirley Davis https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-16654 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 11:57:07 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-16654 In reply to Linda Senne.

Here you go. I hope you find the help you need here. We strive to aid people on their journey.
https://cptsdfoundation.org/?s=scholarship

]]> By: Linda Senne https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/06/27/the-tragedy-of-never-feeling-safe/#comment-16649 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 23:07:17 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=242483#comment-16649 I am in the same boat. Years of family abuse well into adulthood has complicated my trauma. I have been self isolating for several years now and have no one to trust. Could you tell me where I can find the information on your scholarships? My only income is SSDI. Thank you.

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