#trauma coping mechanism

[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

[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

[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

[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

[thepeacefulgarden]

Come on, Barbie, let's go party! Ah, ah, ah later

#healing #recovery #mental health #coping #coping mechanisms #adulting #doing the hard stuff #self care #self compassion #self love #self respect #trauma #get some help #grief #you deserve happiness #you owe it to yourself

[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?

[kittykatninja321]

When people say “Jason wouldn’t smoke because he died of smoke inhalation” I respectfully have to disagree, because if there’s one thing Jason is going to do he’s going to take aspects of his trauma and use them for himself and push on them like a bruise (he takes the name red hood, he uses explosives and guns, the crowbars were lame but they weren’t out of character), so I don’t think that would stop him from smoking. The way I see it I think Jason would be one of those people who occasionally smokes a cigarette when things are Particularly Bad, even though they swear they stopped smoking, like a maladaptive coping mechanism basically

#Guy who has extremely detailed headcanons on Jason Todd’s smoking habits for no reason (me) #I think he would’ve stopped during his Robin training and would’ve been really proud of himself at the time #and then he picks it up again after resurrection. Maladaptive coping mechanism go brrr #Jason Todd #dc #smoking is basically controlled smoke inhalation and if there’s anything Jason loves it’s taking aspects of his trauma and controlling #them for his own needs #When I look at post-fear toxin lobotomy Jason I’m like somebody please buy that man a pack he needs something to take edge off 🙈

[bones-of-a-rabbit]

Pirate-Eclipse has a nightmare,, final 💕

To quote a dear friend from the space aces discord:

“True love is when your mental illness/trauma matches up with theirs! /lh” - @crazedauthor

(First part: here!)

(Bonus/prequel comic: here!)

#pirate eclipse has a nightmare comic #pirate eclipse comic #sea monster reader #sea monster and pirate #sea monster au #fnaf au #fnaf eclipse #fnaf eclipse x reader #fnaf eclipse x y/n #comic #bones of a rabbit au #bones of a rabbit comic #doodles #sketches #hurt and comfort #tw trauma #tw unhealthy coping mechanisms #possessiveness #overprotective #clingy affection #the last panel was quite fun to draw lol sjdhdjdvd #ok bye now lol love u guys

[martydaxnger]

oh so we ALL were traumatized by the good omens season 2 finale so brutally that it catapulted us back into our doctor who phases, huh?

#ITS NOT JUST ME I GUESS #MY TIK TOK FEED IS NOTHING BUT 10 EDITS AND 10 AND ROSE EDITS AND DAVID TENNANT EDITS BUT I AM NOT COMPLAINING #i did not have doctor who coping mechanism on my 2023 bingo card but look at where we are #doctor who #good omens #tenth doctor #10th doctor #10 #david tennant #copium #doctor who copium #good omens season 2 #gos2 #gos2e6 #good omens s2 #and thats on trauma baby! #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #ineffable divorce #doctor who edit

[queerexpressions]

“that he’d been vindicated somehow”

#baby reindeer #sa victim #trauma survivor #tw abuse #tw rap3 #rapesurvivor #rapevictim #rapeawareness #sa awareness #sexualassault #richard gadd #tvandfilm #tv series #web weaving #writerblr #scriptwriting #🤯 #trauma coping #coping mechanism #movieblr #tvedit #movieedit #media analysis #cw vent #cw rap3 #cw sa mention

[realbeefman]

stacy is sooo interesting because she's in love with house but knows that they will never ever be able to have a healthy, stable, sane relationship because they're too similar so. she finds house-lite instead and marries him and. essentially moves on with her life! and is successful in this because she's a moderately well-adjusted person!

wilson, in contrast, never manages to escape the inevitable, in spite of his best efforts to find a house-lite of his very own, because he's an absolute fucking freak and ends up glued to house to the bitter. bitter end

#yeah im too sleepy to revise this. UNFILTERED posting wooahh #some may b shocked but i do actually read thru most of my posts several times to make sure i didnt accidentally write mein kampfe 2 #recently ive come to the realization that i am in fact not an incredibly chill person #and that the constant paranoia and fear in which i live my life is actually PROBABLY a symptom of severe anxiety #like damn. ive always known that im pretty prone to depression but ive preetty much always been aware of that #my mom is a chronic depressive so i know the symptoms i know the signs i have a pretty good arsenal of healthy coping mechanisms #UNFORTUNATELY mommy's mental health problems did not help her not abuse me as a child #so i ended up being a terribly anxious kid who was constantly being screamed at and told i was overreacting (because i was. because i had #a severe anxiety problem that was making me react irrationally.) to everything all the time #which is you know. it is VERY difficult to deal with a mental health problem when you arent aware you have a problem! #its incredible how much. better. my life has gotten since i figured this out and started actively trying to work out what triggers it #and being able to like. realize 'oookay. there is an Issue here and it needs to be overcome' #instead of just beating on myself constantly for not being able to do things without feeling sick or getting breathing problems! #anyways. trauma dumping in tags is over now! #house md #hilson #greg house #james wilson #stacy warner

[shit-sorry-fuck-mybad]

Give me widower Mav who has come to terms with his husband’s death and now gets to make jokes and comments about it which makes people uncomfortable while he finds it hilarious pls

As someone who lost their father a long time ago I have reached that point where I can make jokes and comments and like to my close friends it’s funny but to someone I don’t know it’s… strange cause they don’t know how to react and it’s truly a small moment of absolute joy cause they make it weirder than it needs to be

Here is what I mean:

Fanboy: Hi Mav! I like your hoodie!

Mav: thanks, it belonged to my dead husband

Fanboy:

Mav: he’s not gonna use it so

…

Hangman, pointing at the ring on Mav’s dog tags: you’re married?

Mav: I was, but sadly he died on a terrible accident

Hangman: oh I’m sorry—

Mav: I’m kidding, he didn’t die on an accident

Hangman: oh thank god I thought I—

Mav: he died of cancer

…

Mav: my husband used to hate this movie

Phoenix: what made him change his mind?

Mav: oh he didn’t, he just died

…

Mav: I miss my husband

Coyote: why, where is he?

Mav: I want to say heaven but he was a weird man so honestly I don’t know

…

Cyclone: Maverick where is the paperwork I asked for

Mav: oh I’m sorry? I was mourning the death of my husband, in case you hadn’t noticed, the audacity, I cannot believe you would come for a widower like this—

#im sorry Ice but that bite was a one way ticket to hell #cheer up tho your little freak husband will join you soon #top gun #icemav #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #dead loved one that gives you trauma but also the ability to make jokes about it and be that weird person of the group #thanks dad #for the humor as a coping mechanism not the trauma #Mav and the hoodie is me with any of my dads stuff #literally I kept his shirts and watched cause they were pretty but when people ask me I gotta explain

[fuckingwhateverdude]

3.25.24

#my therapist wanted me to write this poem 😭 #and so i did. #full stop #my writing #my writing tag #poetry #original poem #anger #on anger #childhood trauma #spilled ink #mental illness #vent writing #coping mechanisms #anger issues

[ace-and-ranty]

Murderbot, a Package of Trauma Held Together by Funny String: Dr. Mensah hasn't gone to therapy? Why hasn't she gone to therapy? She really needs therapy :(

#it is so funny and so tragic #Murderbot #it's a being made of trauma; empathy; and guns #held together by the thin coping mechanism of fictional characters #and the second it finds out Dr. Mensah didn't get therapy it is outraged enough to look her DIRECTLY IN THE FACE

[tvlandofficiall]

god damn weird

#ooc #art #ralsei #deltarune #shaking him. shaking him #when you are the guide npc in a deeply messed up story! when you have no choice in the matter! when ralsei! #he is so trauma coping mechanisms any%