Comments on: The Good and Bad Days of Living with Complex PTSD https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/ The Foundation for Post-Traumatic Healing and Complex Trauma Research Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Elizabeth Woods https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28565 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:30:14 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28565 Thank you Barbara. It helped me to write my memoir because no one believed me when I was growing up. My bio-family still don’t, which is one of the reasons I cut them out of my life. I needed to get the words out and for the world to understand that we survivors exist and our stories deserve to be heard.
Take care of yourself when you are triggered and know that you are not alone.

Lizzy

]]> By: Barbara Polhamius https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28547 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 00:04:51 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28547 Oh, I just really needed to read your story right now. I was SA from age 5 to 15, with many other unhealthy and damaging experiences. I’m 73 and still fighting the “legacy”. Thank you!

]]> By: Elizabeth Woods https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28514 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 19:30:52 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28514 In reply to Donna E..

Hi Donna,

I’m glad I could help you through my own experiences. These moments happen all the time to me and it sounds like you have them too. I am sure other survivors experience these as well and I think that is why we need each other. Our start in life was nothing but ordinary and so other people’s lives are not like ours.
We did something most people have not and that is to survive.
You are not alone out there and you are strong.
Take care
Lizzy

]]> By: Elizabeth Woods https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28510 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:40:12 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28510 In reply to Lise Brun.

Hi Lise,
Thank you, I am glad that I could help you.
Take care and know that you are not alone.
Lizzy

]]> By: Donna E. https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28508 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 15:07:36 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28508 Oh my goodness, I can relate to this sooo much! Not about the TV example, but the triggers that arise whenever a group is reminiscing about something that “everyone remembers” from childhood… except me. Like you, I did not have a “normal” situation; in fact, the furthest thing from it! I always say I feel as if I were dropped on this planet fifty-six years ago by a spaceship. That’s how alien I feel. I just want to thank you so much for sharing your experience; makes me feel not so alone in all this healing. You give me hope, too. Thank you!

]]> By: Lise Brun https://cptsdfoundation.org/2024/10/07/the-good-and-bad-days-of-living-with-complex-ptsd/#comment-28499 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:47:37 +0000 https://cptsdfoundation.org/?p=987489318#comment-28499 Elizabeth you said:
but then the water recedes, and the sun rises again.
Loved your essay! So appropriate for me to be reminded that indeed, the sun does rise again.
Thank you for sharing, you helped me!

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