Heavy but hopeful reading: https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/trauma-and-cptsd-101/ https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/trauma-and-cptsd-10... "[...

Heavy but hopeful reading: https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/trauma-and-cptsd-101/ https://www.rewriting-the-rules.com/self/trauma-and-cptsd-10... "[...] each time psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy have begun to take trauma seriously, it has been shut down by people denying that it’s even a thing, and suggesting that those who are traumatised are making it up or exaggerating its impact. When Freud first published a paper pointing out that most of the people with mental health struggles he was working with had experienced childhood and/or adult sexual abuse and assault, he was ignored and shut down. He went on to shift to a theory that suggested his patients had fantasised those things: they couldn’t possibly actually had happened. This is pretty terrifying now that we know the statistics on the prevalence of abuse and assault." My new therapist asks 2-3x per session 'but no one raised a fuss with CPS'? What? I was very well treated compared to most kids from my neighbourhood & cohort. I was fed, clothed, and my health was somehow cared for, at least when obviously sick. Sleeping in my own bed in a stable home, a roof over my head. Not to much abuse, at least not everyday. Most of my mates didn't have this luck. The slaps in school by their parents, the pulled hair or ears to obtain compliance, the insults, pushing around, threats of sleeping on the ground or outside, the black eyes, belt scars, the never washed clothes and body, the 'forgotten' breakfasts or dinners, the rotten teeth, the neglected vision problems... I mean it wasn't Oliver Twist but some of us had it GOOD. Gimme helicopter parenting and too many activities. The pendulum hasn't swung that much on that side than it had on the other... Sorry, I hate the 'helicopter parenting' expression. FWIW I agree about our modern vices. Phones, twitter, HN, everything-gamification...