What r/CPTSD is talking about this week

And I feel like its a victory for all of us. This may have already been covered in this group, sorry! Her opponent used an add featuring her own mother, who stayed with her abuser when Amy was...

Anyway, spouse, we've been together 4 years. No physical violence ever until a couple weeks ago. Genuinely a great relationship. An occasional heated argument (like less than quarterly) but that's...

they’d come and see me crying in bed and pick me up and carry me to a safe soft place where it is warm and then they’d hold me close to their chest and stroke my hair and tell me i’m safe now and...

For me the first one is limerence, it controls my whole internal and external experience the way I actually experience life and existence. And the second is being in dissociation and “flight” the...

For those of you not from the US or out of the loop, Amy Acton just successfully ran to be the next Governor of Ohio. Her Republican opponent ran an advertisement using Amy’s biological mother...

sometimes i feel like im an alien atp. i just don’t get it it’s like people know something i don’t. people always say “if people don’t always stick around with you then you’re probably the...

I am at a point in my life that I want to be left alone by everyone and everything. I am right now 2 years sick at home from work due to my depression and CPTSD. I had recently again a friendship...

I'm a high-functioning adult with CPTSD, but I feel like the cost of my success has been continual self-abandonment. I don't even know who I am underneath all the masks. I feel as though my entire...