My thoughts these days go to the medical professionals who, despite the pressures and stress they’re facing, are putting in the effort and time to understand our struggles, take them seriously, and try to help to the best of their ability, sometimes even beyond. All medical professionals should be like this; I’m glad there’s at least some who are.
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I have Dissosciative Identity Disorder so not quite the same, but a lot of us struggle with this sort of “trauma that isn’t actually real”. Though we call it intratrauma, as it is trauma that happens internally (in headspace, usually).
Generally my opinion is. Even if something isn’t “real”, if you are having a trauma response to it, then it is real according to your nervous system. If you have meaningfully changed your behaviour due to your trauma, you are experiencing real trauma symptoms. While I do agree that it’s not the same as actually being assaulted, it’s still traumatic and you deserve to acknowledge it as such. Anything else is doing the thing where you don’t consider your trauma valid cos some people have it worse and that’s no good
That makes sense, thank you.