#post traumatic experiences

[lesbianshadowheart]

dont get me wrong cuz I DO appreciate Larian continuing to work on the game and trying to fix issues etc but like. mr Larian PLEASE stop responding to fan feedback. Theres like 2 million people playing this game ofc some of them will say character x should be nicer or cuter or do a little dance but that doesnt mean u gotta do it. you dont gotta call neil newbon or whoever up like come to the studio we need to rerecord everything bc a person on reddit said theyd like it better. You’ve worked on these characters for over 4 years and you are allowed to stand by your creation. None of what I said applies to Wyll’s underdevelopment btw but you all know that

#that post abt halsins #traumatic experience really portrayed this well for me #i wanted to say its fine to add things just dont replace them but #if im being honest even the epilogue felt too fanservicey for me #oh they all had a good ending and lived happily ever after #and had babies w each other and named them gortash cazador potter or whatever #like leave ittt just leaveee ittttt #bg3

[desultory-suggestions]

People who love you shouldn't make you feel ashamed of your interests and hobbies. What you enjoy is wonderful, even if it's uncommon, complicated, stereotypical, etc. Please keep sharing your lovely energy with the world.

#des posts #hobbies #interests #special interests #hyperfixation #shame #shame reduction #suggestions #suggestion blog #desultory suggestions #mental health #mental wellness #self care #healing #wellness #trauma recovery #trauma #past trauma #recovery #traumatic experiences

[bandtrees]

ONE: ok guys here’s an arc about mob, in his growth as a person, being confronted with an ideology he’s unfamiliar with, and he has to learn from it but also understand why it’s unhealthy and bad to properly grow from it and choose kindness in the end, albeit in a more nuanced way than before, and this will make mob more able to confront later problems in the season that can’t be solved with mere kindness and require a deep understanding of loneliness and solitude, something he hasn’t had much room to speak on until now. To express mob being shown this villain’s ideology we have a sequence where we see how mogami views the world and by extension how he sees mob, by putting mob in the kind of sad fucked up world he thinks exists, but mob will overcome it with the knowledge that in the real world he has people he cares about and that even the people who make the world bad sometimes can change and nobody is a static evil and kindness and courage when you’re going through hardship goes a long way. despite the darkness this is ultimately a very uplifting experience for him and a show that life is always more than its darkest moments, and also how picking yourself up instead of wallowing in your own suffering and trauma is hard but a very courageous act and what makes mob stronger than mogami

mp100 fans with tunnel vision: Oh so mob was tortured for six months and is sad? He’s literally so sad and traumatized and nobody is talking about this?

#babbles #mp100 #decided to nab an old discord message for Post Purposes #BC i love mogami arc but god the Fandom Mogami Arc™️ where it’s all just #Evil Mogami Sad Mob Whump Look How Sad Why Aren’t We Talking About This!!! #makes me SEE RED. MY GOD #fandoms when characters experience trauma and get takeaways from it that aren’t looking into the camera to go #Wow That Was So Sad I Am Traumatized And Sad Now #I Am So Sad And Must Acknowledge My Trauma By Suffering And Never Growing #and of course coming back to one of my biggest fandom pet peeves which is viewing characters exclusively as People #like mob is so so so dear to me he’s one of my top ccs i care about him so so much #but he’s not a real child being bullied who needs like. counseling. his trauma served a purpose in the story and #dwelling on it was not that purpose!

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

Childhood trauma culture is being grown and still getting really into whatever was popular with kids/teens when you were that age because you feel like you missed out

#childhood trauma #adverse childhood experiences #late diagnosis #medical trauma #family trauma #parental abuse #csa survivor #sa survivor #trauma disorders #traumagenic #trauma recovery #cptsd healing #cptsd recovery #complex trauma #age regression #trauma response #post traumatic stress disorder #complex post traumatic stress disorder #autistic trauma #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #late diagnosed autistic #audhd problems #intersectionality #comorbidities #comorbid conditions

[eegnm]

„I regret to report that both our Jedi Order and the Republic have fallen, with the dark shadow of the Empire rising to take their place.“

What if Aayla survived and they reunited?

#aayla secura #quinlan vos #star wars #fanart #my art #order 66 #tcw #yes im here for the family dynamics #yes i want to see them work through this traumatic experience together #if anybody has a fic rec where something like this happens please let me know #same goes for post o66 bultar content #i want to see my girlies 😔 i want to see them fall apart and keep pushing on

[mizartz]

The man with his rucksack raises the gun. Danny looks at him, really looks at him, sees his wide eyes and trembling hands and thinks that it serves him right. Danny’s own eyes glow green and bright, blood dripping down his face. “Better make it count,” he snarls.

fanart for close enough to be whole again by @hailsatanacab <3 i am obsessed with this fic!!!

#pixelart #pixel art #danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc #(tho there isnt any visible dc here it IS a crossover fic so) #pwease fullview :') i drew this pic too big and tumblr is makin it super blurry lol #cetbwa danny my beloved <3333 i want to hold him in the palm of my hands #and maybe have him experience at least 5 more traumatic events before the end of the fic #i blacked out and drew this in like 6 hours dlhkalkhrelkhs dont look too closely at anything other than danny cuz its messy af #i might draw a couple more lighthearted scenes if i get time #but first i need to go reread cetbwa 20 more times bye #gun tw #blood tw #realizing an hour after posting that i uploaded the wrong gunshaking animation.... ah...................... #i had like three different versions and this was definitely not the final one. oh well

[m3llowm1sh]

a mini moral orel x tboi crossover comic

#moral orel #the binding of isaac #wow mish posts something that isn't rhythm doctor for once?!?!!??! thats crazy #this is really old like. probably 6 months old but i never posted it and i still think its like somewhat funny #i think they would bond over their similar traumatic experiences </33 bonus points if they had a sibling dynamic w each other #i dont draw isaac like this anymore btw hes kinda ugly here #mish’s art tag

[msue0027]

Jack, every so often, after a particularily exhausting, shitty, hell coming loose kind of day, remembers those Doctor's words from so long ago. And he thinks to himself, what an utterly untrue statement. What the fuck, Doc. Ah the doctorate in bullshitting, of course you've got that one. Why did you lie to me like this.

And so he grits his teeth and gets back to work. He has a human-eating alien running free. Doesn't mean he won't be complaining all the way through this. Damn. Nice and quiet, my ass.

#late night posting #i just got reminded of this dw s1 scene #paired with the most traumatic unsettling gory experience jack just went thru in torchwood #yeah that checks out #now i'm thinking #what if it was #the safest place #or it just looked like that in the record #because torchwood was keeping it in check? #should really be snoozing rn #doctor who #dw #torchwood #ninth doctor #9th doctor #jack harkness #rose tyler

[kaseyskat]

since ive already been pretty open about this and im not afraid to whack a hornets nest i'll go ahead and say it: if you were raising a kid in a pseudo-apocalyptic setting and then you found out that said kid was going to be the one to defeat the eldritch god that you have tried to defeat for half your lifetime and could never manage. that she was going to FACE that eldritch god it was prophesied. you would teach her how to defend herself and how to fight. like god i am not saying hero's trauma from it wasn't justified because i do think the twins took it too far but the initial process of training her makes so much more sense if you approach it at the angle of "this kid is going to do something we've been trying to do since we were twelve and couldn't manage and we might not even be there to help her so we have to make sure she doesn't die in the process" and not "we're going to make her fix our mistakes" it makes sense. goes along with lark's running theme of not being strong enough in the moments that matter and wanting to make sure nobody else ever feels as helpless as he did when walter was injured. goes along with sparrow desperately tempting fate with normal's name- not because normal was an accident, but because sparrow never wanted to lose even one kid to the doodler and it was a fervent, desperate wish to let normal get to be normal

#dndads #kasey rambles #sorry im feeling especially spiteful today #cause again i do think. the twins get the least amount of nuance from the fandom #tell me how yall were just fighting for glenn so hard and then you turn around and tell me that the twins are evil monsters skahsdkfhkdhsf #like idk. it makes sense to me! #if hero was supposed to fight the doodler but they dont know WHEN it would happen. theyd train her early #make sure it was a fight she could win #and thats also why shes NOT in the chosen one position anymore #she wanted to leave and now that she could reasonably defend herself should she be threatened. its fine! #if they really only wanted her to fix their mistakes she would not have been allowed to leave. lmao #again this isn't to say that she wasn't traumatized from the experience like. #i think the twins shouldve been honest with her and there shouldnt have been so much pressure #but i get why they felt the need to make sure she could handle herself in a fight so early on #also like. this kind of thing happens in so many post apocalyptic settings its not even uncommon #yall just dont see this world as being post apocalyptic and it shows LMAO

[dracula-enthusiast]

OBVIOUSLY i care abt chainshipping deeply and i believe something quite lgbt happened to those men in that bathroom. BUT if im being so honest, if i put down my gay delusion for a moment, i think that Lawrence would do absolutely everything in his power to get Alison back before he would ever let himself think about Adam in anyway even remotely romantic.

and like the keyword here is 'let' right, like those thoughts would for sure creep in, but i think he would ignore them as best he could at first. i mean he's married, and not only is he married, but he just spent hours trapped in a bathroom thinking about how much he does actually love his wife and how much he took her for granted. thats why he cut off his leg so that he could try to save her and his daughter. on top of that, if he was committed enough to decide not to go through with cheating on her BEFORE the bathroom trap, why on earth would he just let her go afterwards.

i do think that Alison left him after everything. i think that even before Lawrence gets all weird and creepy (said affectionately) from working with Jigsaw, that she would leave him. she clearly wasnt happy before any of this happened, and when she and Diana needed him the most he failed to protect them.

but i dont for a second think that Lawrence just accepts that. i think he would try, and fail, to convince Alison to stay and that he loves her and that he's sorry. he would have to sit with that failure and with that structural loss to his life for a while before he would let Adam in.

#and once Lawrence does let Adam in?? once he starts letting himself think of him as more than just someone he shared a deeply personal and #traumatic experience with??? he is absolutely never letting go. he's experienced too much loss and he's lost too much control #i honestly think that causes lawrence to be more dependent on adam than the events in the bathroom #i mean. he was willing to leave. at the end of the day he was willing to leave the bathroom and adam in it #anyway. i think abt u often dr lawrence gordon. #.txt #saw posting #chainshipping #saw #lawrence gordon #adam faulkner #adam faulkner stanheight #adam stanheight #saw 2004

[thedreadvampy]

vaguing a post that's on my dash that I don't want to engage with (as usual) but actually no CPTSD isn't a diagnosis for 'when things were a tiny bit bad a lot' or 'if you experienced relationships that were toxic but not abusive' it's a diagnosis describing the impacts of CONTINUOUS TRAUMA. not less significant but more frequent trauma; trauma which is ongoing/continuous/recurring in developmental years.

like I'm not trying to gatekeep here and I recognise the value of saying 'it doesn't have to be a Single Big Obvious Trauma' because one key thing about CPTSD is that generally it makes traumatic incidents Your Normal so you don't necessarily view them as unusual or concerning. but I often see people talk about CPTSD as if it implies smaller individual incidents than PTSD and that just is not the case.

most experiences I have seen people be diagnosed with CPTSD for (myself included) are not 'a little bit toxic'. they are things which, each incident taken separately, an outsider would still recognise as traumatic - medical emergencies, rape and sexual abuse, significant physical violence, emotional abuse and coercive control, homelessness, severe poverty, war, torture, etc - and the thing that makes the PTSD C is not the relative level of the trauma, but the fact that it's enough of a repeated and consistent pattern, at an early enough stage, and sufficiently embedded in everyday life, that it becomes a person's baseline for 'normal'.

CPTSD is not a synonym for emotional microtraumas or cumulative trauma or 'death by a thousand cuts'. It's specifically defining the psychological differences in response to long term formative trauma as opposed to traumatic events which you process as an aberration (eg the difference between regular violence against you from trusted adults in childhood vs being physically abused for the first time in adulthood with existing experience of healthy relationships). Traumas causing CPTSD tend to be pretty similar in type, scale and severity to traumas causing standard PTSD - they are just more embedded and normalised earlier in life.

all this to say there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that cumulative microtraumas can't affect us in traumatic ways. there's nothing wrong with pointing out that there's a broad range of types of trauma, and trauma can include stuff like growing up marginalised or ill as well as abuse, war, injury or immediate loss. there's nothing wrong, too, with acknowledging that a lot that is traumatic doesn't necessarily feel traumatic to you.

but like. no. CPTSD is not a diagnosis for people whose trauma wasn't 'big enough' for PTSD. CPTSD is not cumulative microtraumas. CPTSD is a response to formative macrotraumas or to a long term traumatic situation without hope of escape or change and if you want to talk about microtraumas then do that but it's not what CPTSD is!

#red said #this has really pissed me off sorry I've seen several people post things like this #so this post just tipped me over #but like. goddamn. cptsd is not microtrauma. #and there are benefits to encouraging people to think of things as potentially traumatic before they're ready to register them as harm #but imo that's counterbalanced by the fact that again a major part of CPTSD for a lot of people is that we Think Severe Trauma Is Normal #so i do not think it's USEFUL to AGREE that CPTSD is a diagnosis describing the buildup of Small Normal Microtraumas #when it's generally a response to LARGE HORRIFYING trauma that KEEPS HAPPENING #listen ok so PTSD might describe an adult's response to being posted into a warzone or having their home unexpectedly attacked #CPTSD might describe a child who grew up in a warzone and struggles to feel safe into adulthood bc they have no experience of a safe world #they're both significant traumas but one is an interruption of the way you thought the works works #and the other is the only lens you have to view the world through #but crucially NEITHER ARE MICROTRAUMATIC AND THAT'S NOT WHAT THE COMPLEX IN CPTSD MEANS

[milimeters-morales]

Miles: so yeah Miguel and a bunch of others was chasing me out of the HQ with knives on his hands and shouting “getcha lil narrow ass back here” so i just electrocuted him on a train and went to a portal and that’s how i ended up here

Miles G, considering setting the apartment on fire with them both in it: mhm

#severely downplaying wtf happened bro. you’re TRAUMATIC experiences are slapstick comedy not to me.. #miles morales #spiderman #spider man #miles g #prowler miles #the prowler #atsv spoilers #m&m posts

[desultory-suggestions]

You will never have it all figured out. That can be an uncomfortable truth to accept, but remember that the goal is not to be prepared for everything. It is simply to be capable of responding healthily to the unexpected.

#des posts #suggestions #suggestion blog #desultory suggestions #mental health #mental wellness #self care #healing #wellness #trauma recovery #trauma #past trauma #recovery #traumatic experiences #ed recovery #eating disorder #eating disorder recovery #bulimia #anorexia #bed #binge eating disorder #ed wellness #ed things

[soaked-ghost]

do u guys ever think about how nightmare was doomed from the day he was made? do u guys ever think that nightmare hates not only his mother for making him this way, but also himself for being this way? do u guys think that nightmare ever feels shame or disgust over what he is and what he is becoming? do u guys ever think about how nightmare thinks of himself as evil and unredeemable and none deserving of love of compassion because he was 'born' to be evil and unredeemable and unlovable? do u guys think he ever wishes he was someone else?

#the brother made out of 'bad' things gets to have his body distorted for having normal teenager feelings #while the brother made out of 'good' things gets all the love he wants for a traumatic experience he didn't even go through #Idc what problems dream might have. nightmare went through worse /half joking #I'm not saying one needs more love than the other. I'm saying u gotta admit dream got away easy #'wishing to be someone else' is a a big theme for the two brothers. I think they don't like it very much when being called 'sans' #but that's for another post lol #nightmare sans #dream sans #me when I can project my experiences with being transgender and autistic on a character: 😈😈😈😈😈

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

I hope you heal so much that taking care of yourself is one of your favorite things to do and I hope you can forgive yourself for everything you did before you got there

#trauma recovery #complex trauma #ed recovery #ana recovery #csa survivor #cptsd healing #cptsd vent #trauma disorders #traumagenic #adverse childhood experiences #childhood trauma #medical trauma #autistic trauma #neurodiversity #did osdd #complex post traumatic stress disorder #post traumatic growth #self care #trauma healing #trauma brain #childhood neglect #childhood abuse #substance abuse #abuse recovery #late diagnosed autistic #childhood emotional neglect #bpd thoughts #autistic borderline #borderline personality disorder #adhd autistic

[sunsetzer]

On one hand, I want a final fantasy 6 remake, because the game is criminally underrated and the amount of fan content (which is all absolutely fantastic btw) is Not Enough for my neurodivergent, hyperfixating brain.

On the other hand, that would inevitably encourage more people to join the fandom, which would be great, except it seems these days the bigger a fandom gets the more toxic it becomes, and I really like what we have going on over here in our little corner. We all just love the game and its characters and nobody fights about who should and shouldn't date who or who you shouldn't like because they're ~problematique~. Nobody's trying to make one ship morally better than another, nobody's calling anyone names or threatening to doxx people who don't agree with their opinions. It's so peaceful and I love that for us. We're just vibing. Moisturized. Unbothered. In our lane. Flourishing.

#as someone who was in an extremely toxic and chaotic fandom and lowkey still traumatized #to the point where I'm afraid to mention which fandom it was/what my ship was #i have to say #i genuinely love it here #i was nervous at first sharing my ships and headcanons but everyone is so chill i was worried for nothing #thank you to everyone I've interacted with who has made this fandom a healing experience for me #i shudder to think about what some of the people i interacted with in a previous fandom would do with ff6 #probably would take edgar's flirting at face value and call him problematic for objectifying women #instead of considering the narrative and what we know about him and the way he actually treats women #my man drinks loving and respecting women juice he's not a creep #or that weird moment with relm that admittedly made me double take before i realized what he meant #theyd have a whole campaign against him lmfao #bc those people boil characters alive until they're just a formless pile of tropes and stereotypes #and seem to disregard all positive aspects of a character they don't like which is fine #but then they go and try to force other people to think like they do and ugh #theres a lot of silly moments in the game and aspects of these characters that make them well rounded and realistically flawed at times #and i fear that would get lost in the chaos if the floodgates opened after a remake #maybe im just jaded lmao #im jaded and i have anxiety so im always thinking about The Worst Case Scenario #the collective positive spirit of the dwellers in this fandom might actually foster a positive space if more people were to come in #ff6 #my post #i was gonna say maybe this is bc we're mostly adults #but that falls flat when i remember how some of the most toxic and immature people in some fandoms are grown ass adults #who bully each other and younger fans #and some of the most mature and cool people were actually younger #maybe ff6 fans are just built different lmao #also idk how old anyone else actually is there might be teenagers here i just don't think about it a lot