rant ahead i hope i dont sound incredibly entitled sigh. i wanna preface this by saying everyone’s experience is valid, im mainly just upset at people completely misusing terms and accidentally creating stigma by doing so i also hope i dont sound too situation specific 💔💔im sorry if i do but the point is… if u have therapy.. pls utilise it.. instead of.. self diagnosing.. okay.💔not every bad situation = disorder im rly sorry
i kind of really hate and get upset at the amount of people who are so like. stuck to the internet that they deem friendship breakups or petty drama online as ‘traumatic’ i completely understand it can have an emotional toll on someone to endure that but i HATE. **HATE.** how some people GENUINELY claim to have developed bpd or cptsd or even just ptsd over drama online. (obviously not referring to serious harassment and doxxing or anything that could GENUINELY affect your personal life and the people around ,im talking about just. stupid fucking arguments that are not that deep) im not saying my experience is more ‘valid’ than others but my trauma genuinely ruined my nervous system and i feel like these people have the fortune of never being stuck in a state of flight any time something triggers that memory. and i also HATE how the word ‘trigger’ is used so so so often. it feels so watered down compared to the actual mental process of being triggered and your body reacting in response. like. people mix up being triggered for being negatively reminded of an experience and getting upset about it in return. both are obviously valid but its so so so frustrating it isnt even funny. i dont want to singlehandedly blame stigma on the individuals who do this but it definitely feels like it adds onto the stigma for sure. i just really wish people wouldnt have one fucking friendship breakup slap the word ‘trauma’ or ‘ptsd’ on it and make it their sole purpose to spread misinformation about trauma processing. i understand both sides as well im not trying to be close minded in the slightest but i personally have had awful ends to relationships that at the time, did fuck up my life drastically but i can look at that and see an extreme difference to what happened to me in primary school. said relationship end doesnt dictate my life and doesn’t affect my nervous system in the slightest, it DEFINITELY affects my emotions and it definitely taught me a lesson and a half but when compared to primary school for instance, i see a massive difference in the way my body quickly responds to stimuli that may be similar to my trauma. it is a visceral reaction, it isnt emotional, i dont choose to react, but my nervous system does. its such a different feeling and understanding both trauma responses and bad mental states as seperate things but still SEEING people misuse them and mix them up is so very frustrating 💔 yes, the two can intertwine but they aren’t the same thing and seeing people who live online and are very fortunate in their circumstances (having an immediate support group and enough money to pay for said support group) claim to have some of the most painful to live with disorders over something that happened online and infact did not affect their nervous system really is another kind of frustration. maybe im saying this out of jealousy and envy, i won’t lie, i often do get VERY jealous of people who have the fortune of not living through something like that (their experiences are still valid, and they are still allowed to have emotions like all of us obviously!) but i feel like this is such a huge issue people online have i just REALLYYY wish they wouldnt label very minor experiences as traumatic because that isn’t how trauma works someone saying something mean to you doesn’t give you ptsd and as someone with post traumatic stress years and years after the event it feels so mocking that people make a huge joke out of it😢sorr for the rant
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rant ahead i hope i dont sound incredibly entitled sigh.
i wanna preface this by saying everyone’s experience is valid, im mainly just upset at people completely misusing terms and accidentally creating stigma by doing so
i also hope i dont sound too situation specific 💔💔im sorry if i do but the point is… if u have therapy.. pls utilise it.. instead of.. self diagnosing.. okay.💔not every bad situation = disorder im rly sorry
i kind of really hate and get upset at the amount of people who are so like. stuck to the internet that they deem friendship breakups or petty drama online as ‘traumatic’
i completely understand it can have an emotional toll on someone to endure that but i HATE. **HATE.** how some people GENUINELY claim to have developed bpd or cptsd or even just ptsd over drama online. (obviously not referring to serious harassment and doxxing or anything that could GENUINELY affect your personal life and the people around ,im talking about just. stupid fucking arguments that are not that deep) im not saying my experience is more ‘valid’ than others but my trauma genuinely ruined my nervous system and i feel like these people have the fortune of never being stuck in a state of flight any time something triggers that memory. and i also HATE how the word ‘trigger’ is used so so so often. it feels so watered down compared to the actual mental process of being triggered and your body reacting in response. like. people mix up being triggered for being negatively reminded of an experience and getting upset about it in return. both are obviously valid but its so so so frustrating it isnt even funny. i dont want to singlehandedly blame stigma on the individuals who do this but it definitely feels like it adds onto the stigma for sure. i just really wish people wouldnt have one fucking friendship breakup slap the word ‘trauma’ or ‘ptsd’ on it and make it their sole purpose to spread misinformation about trauma processing. i understand both sides as well im not trying to be close minded in the slightest but i personally have had awful ends to relationships that at the time, did fuck up my life drastically but i can look at that and see an extreme difference to what happened to me in primary school. said relationship end doesnt dictate my life and doesn’t affect my nervous system in the slightest, it DEFINITELY affects my emotions and it definitely taught me a lesson and a half but when compared to primary school for instance, i see a massive difference in the way my body quickly responds to stimuli that may be similar to my trauma. it is a visceral reaction, it isnt emotional, i dont choose to react, but my nervous system does. its such a different feeling and understanding both trauma responses and bad mental states as seperate things but still SEEING people misuse them and mix them up is so very frustrating 💔 yes, the two can intertwine but they aren’t the same thing and seeing people who live online and are very fortunate in their circumstances (having an immediate support group and enough money to pay for said support group) claim to have some of the most painful to live with disorders over something that happened online and infact did not affect their nervous system really is another kind of frustration. maybe im saying this out of jealousy and envy, i won’t lie, i often do get VERY jealous of people who have the fortune of not living through something like that (their experiences are still valid, and they are still allowed to have emotions like all of us obviously!) but i feel like this is such a huge issue people online have i just REALLYYY wish they wouldnt label very minor experiences as traumatic because that isn’t how trauma works someone saying something mean to you doesn’t give you ptsd and as someone with post traumatic stress years and years after the event it feels so mocking that people make a huge joke out of it😢sorr for the rant
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