Comments on: Fresh Year, Fresh Starts? https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/12/14/fresh-year-fresh-starts/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:30:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Destiny https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/12/14/fresh-year-fresh-starts/#comment-17582 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:30:24 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=245642#comment-17582 Thanks for sharing part of your story with me. I do not desire in any way to minimize your experience because many parts of our stories are similar. But it is very different being physically unable to run, as I am due to my disability, and being filled with fear and the reality that it is unsafe to do so because it will ensure further harm. Of course, if I could have run, I wouldn’t have for the same reasons you stated and other survivors don’t.

I’m glad you were able to get something from the piece even if it was something different than what was intended by the writing of it. Disability and all that goes with it is often grossly overlooked and not considered or counted as part of or as trauma.

]]> By: Elizabeth Woods https://cptsdfoundation.org/2022/12/14/fresh-year-fresh-starts/#comment-17580 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 17:22:39 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=245642#comment-17580 Thank you for sharing this post. My name is Elizabeth and I am a survivor like you. I too suffered abuse well into my teens but for me it was “normal” life. It had been since I was born and I didn’t know anything but abuse. People have also asked me why I didn’t run away. The answer is, I was too scared and too hurt to do anything that would put me in more harms way. Struggling and resisting only meant more prolonged abuse, causing my flesh to tear or get blistered. I hated it and my insides were screaming but I felt paralysed in the moment. There was no escape or relief for me – only more harm.

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