When the world around you becomes unstable, there are two basic energies you can adopt. For those who went through trauma as a child, it’s hard to avoid getting stuck in one of them: Self-protection.
As much as we need safety, inside and out -- we also need growth. If you have Childhood PTSD and you always favor self-protection, then times of crisis like we’re going through right now are likely to make your symptoms worse and worse. So what can you do to stop this?
As I’m writing this, we’re almost four months into a worldwide lockdown, and we’re just emerging from an intense period of protest and unrest. (If you’re reading many months or years from now, I do hope you’re in a more peaceful and loving world than we are at the moment).
This is a hard time – particularly for people who have been through trauma. By trauma, I mean abuse and neglect and exposure to addiction and mental illness. But trauma is also the type of things we’re seeing or experiencing right now -- people killing, attacking and screaming at each other; people living in fear that violence is always about to break out; people going through what you maybe went through when you were a kid - being dehumanized, locked up, beaten or bullied, stereotyped, scapegoated or lied about, or blamed for things you didn’t do -- getting cast out, excluded, disinvited, banned, unfriended -- feeling afraid to express yourself, to be yourself, to question what you are told… trembling inside at the thought of speaking up, or defending other people, being forced to comply, to conform or be silent, until in the end, you silenced yourself. You shut yourself down, and why? For self-protection. READ MORE on my BLOG
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