#cope with trauma

[animentality]

#twitter #proship #trauma #tw sa #writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #spilledink #fiction #coping mechanism #therapy #mental health

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

anyone else have multiple traumatic memories associated specifically with holidays/family vacations? because that is a topic I never see discussed in all the So You Had A Shitty Childhood, Now What? self-help books i've been reading. but for me, it was a significant thing. and the more i think about it the more it seems like this would be an (unfortunately) common experience. would be grateful to hear if this matches other peoples' experiences...

#not a shitpost #serious post #ask to tag #tw trauma #cptsd #c-ptsd #and if so we should TALK about it #because it means there are a whole group of survivors out there whose mental health regularly worsens during holidays #like i know i am most certainly not the only person who feels an undefined Dread hanging over christmas/my birthday/july 4 etc #bc too many shitty things happened during those times and now my brain is hypervigilant bc traditionally these are the Danger Times #and this seems like it would be particularly common for survivors of abusive/dysfunctional households (aka most people with c-ptsd) #because holidays/vacations typically mean 1) the whole family is together/being forced to interact #2) and undergoing external stressors e.g. travel/relatives aka 'outsiders' visiting/routines & coping mechanisms being interrupted etc #3) there is social pressure for this to be a Fun Family Bonding Experience which only highlights the cracks in the foundation #and exposes the common Everything Is Fine/We Are A Happy Family lie #4) the cognitive dissonance of feeling tired/anxious/stressed/afraid during a time when you are 'supposed' to be Making Good Memories #and then everyone is angry/tired/anxious/triggered and things boil over and something or someone goes Very Wrong #weird that i'm posting this in october when halloween is...sort of the ONLY holiday i have only good and happy feelings towards #i got lucky there #also i have positive feelings towards Labor Day but that's for socialist reasons

[monsterboytrash]

Everything stays..❄️

#TRAUMA #TRAUMA UPON SIMON #we love coping skills babyyyy #simon petrikov #ice prince #ice king #adventure time #fionna and cake #my art #follow me on twitter 👀👀

[wilkoakdraws]

Some designs from everyone's favourite office sitcom!

#the magnus archives #tma #MagPod #the magnus pod #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #tim stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #the archivist #the sweet summer children #look at those faces untouched by trauma #my art is too colorful and cartoony for this show but i guess its a coping mechanism #polish martin will be ripped from my cold dead hands #tim is basically chad version of my own coworker

[grayintogreen]

“Shauna tries so hard to be a good person but sucks at it” vs “Natalie tries so hard to be an awful person but sucks at it.”

Shauna is fully capable and willing to kill and lie and cheat while maintaining this perfect apple pie illusion of a wholesome life and her family stays by her but even they’re starting to see the cracks in the veneer.

Natalie believes she destroys everything she touches, is constantly on a downward spiral of self-destruction, and hates herself for everything she did and yet she can’t even kill a goldfish on purpose and despite being openly antagonistic to everyone in the wellness center, they all seem to really like her.

FASCINATING dichotomy here.

#I feel like there’s so much Lottie vs Nat or Misty vs Nat foil comparisons #but dude she and Shauna are just representing two violent differences in the coping with trauma spectrum #Shauna bottles everything up #Natalie bottles NOTHING up #Shauna causes more destruction on ACCIDENT than Natalie causes on uproar #it’s so interesting!! #and I feel for them both #yellowjackets #yellowjackets spoilers #shauna shipman #natalie scatorccio

[mostwantedpotato404]

SOB SOB SOB

#baldurs gate 3 #baldurs gate fanart #bg3 spoilers #bg3 fanart #gale of waterdeep #halsin #astarion #karlach #wyll #shadowheart #lae'zel #drawing is my coping mechanism and epilog gave me trauma

[crismakesstuff]

cast out of paradise

#please see my vision here #PLEASE #sorry for injecting my catholic trauma into the silly superhero show guys I can’t help it #the fallen angel #invincible #invincible show #invincible fanart #omni man #omniman #nolan grayson #mark grayson #debbie grayson #crismakesstuff #the original painting ‘the fallen angel’ is just SO HIM #the grief the despair and anger about his own choices #ITS NOLAN! #ok but if you guys let me ramble if I had to assign biblical roles to the graysons #i can see nolan as god himself (or lucifer but more so god tbh) debbie is mother mary and mark is jesus #the whole ‘lamb of god’ motif just fits mark wayyyy too well #also I saw someone make art of debbie and mark as ‘la pietà’ and I’ve been a changed person since #AGAIN SORRY FOR THROWING CATHOLIC IMAGERY AT THE SUPERHERO SHOW #this is how my brain wants to cope w it ig ;-; #catholic imagery

[brok3nvinyl]

Why wasn’t I happy

#vent #ventcore #vent post #vent tag #tw self destruction #emotional abuse #mental abuse #abuse survivor #trauma coping #tw abuse #abuse victim #child abuse #trauma #trauma vent #trauma victim #mentally fucked #physical abuse #depressing shit #anxitey #selfharn

[pain-is-my-game]

Parents really do traumatize you and then force you to reparent yourself instead of being a capable human being who can contribute to society like a normal person. Sorry I can't get a well paying job right now I'm trying to learn coping mechanisms.

#i will never care if you reblog #vent #tw vent #cw vent #parentification #toxic parents #emotional trauma #trauma #childhood trauma #trauma coping #childhood emotional neglect #eldest daughter syndrome #eldest daughter #parentified child #childhood neglect #thoughts to throw into the void

[nothing0fnothing]

being like this and living with someone who doesn't understand is so hard.

#narcissistic abuse #parental abuse #cptsd life #complex trauma #just cptsd things #actually cptsd #cptsd recovery #living with cptsd #cptsd problems #mental health #mentally fucked #actually mentally ill #overwhelmed #therapy #coping #mental illness

[tryingtogetaway]

me when i realize that the media i consume during bad times that makes me feel seen and understood is also making me wrongly believe that refusing to let anyone in is a reasonable coping skill, fueling my self-hatred, and worsening my ability to be vulnerable with the people i care about:

#i had to stop listening to car seat headrest when i decided i wanted to get better #vulnerability #fleabag #bojack horseman #normal people #a little life #phoebe bridgers #car seat headrest #csh #sharp objects #skins #euphoria #coping #coping mechanism #childhood trauma #actually traumatized #bpd #actually bpd #bpd stuff #bpd problems #actually borderline #anxious attachment #attachment issues #cptsd thoughts #just cptsd things #actually cptsd #ptsd #actually ptsd #actually autistic #traumatized autistic

[brungeons-and-bragons]

Me starting GTN after hearing about it from a friend: NEEEEEEED the bone lesbians to kiss

Me finishing NTN: love is all around me and god needs to die.

#these books make me insane #how the Fuck do I cope #tlt series #i came for lesbians I left with trauma. and lesbians. #this series is the reason I need therapy and the therapy itself #you can’t take loved away #tlt #tlt memes #gtn #htn #griddlehark #alecto the ninth #Gideon the ninth #ntn #nona the ninth #john gaius #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #Jod #the emperor undying #the locked tomb #1k

[writer-room]

Its so funny that Arin and Sora have shown to have significantly better emotional intelligence than any of the ninja from all of the old seasons combined. "You should be taking care of your mental health" and "yeah saving the world is upsetting! no wonder you're having stress dreams" oh my precious children. You are surrounded by a teen dad with massive self-worth issues, the only one of two people who remembers the genie incident and also turned into the sea once, guy who's died like 3+ times and committed genocide under mind control, and a child soldier who's been living the hard knock life since age 2.

I hope to god you two are prepared to witness the most mentally unwell behavior you've seen in your entire teenage lives. You think you've already seen how bad it can get now? Fools. Just wait until you get a mission involving the Departed Realm

#ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #dragons rising #lego ninjago #arin #sora #ninjago ninja #text post #departed realm #i wouldnt say 'prepare to become the team therapist' because lets be frank #its not even a matter of 'they wouldnt make the kids their therapists' #its literally just bc they would literally never get to that point #because that implies talking about their problems. like an normal person #what do you mean that random fits of rage or fcking off into oblivion from time to time isnt healthy #this is how i cope! this is a perfectly reasonable way to cope #arin and sora are watching the most mentally ill people alive fray at the seams before their eyes #theyre like the monkey side-eye meme warily looking at each other like are #are they good??? are they good..... #then they hit the departed realm and suddenly all that morro & ghost cole trauma FLOODS back #and theyre just like OH THEY ARE NOT GOOD

[dlartistanon]

Shared grief; they loved her. Good night, Kristen.

#arknights #saria #muelsyse #dlarts #the trauma of losing the same person #mumu's terrible horrible no good very bad day #different hugs at different times #coping for catharsis by drawing it myself

[thepeacefulgarden]

#it's okay to not be okay #your feelings are valid #grief #trauma #your pain is valid #your trauma is valid #healing #recovery #spoons #self compassion #coping #difficult times

[lord-save-me]

People with no childhood trauma is so confusing like what do you mean you cried to your mum and she helped you?

#trauma #childhood trauma #mummy issues #trauma jokes #it's my trauma i get to choose the coping mechanism #seriously like you just tell your parents things? #and willingly hang out with them?