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RE: Carry The Glowing Seed, Plant Reality from the Dream [PTSD Series: Part 4]
I strongly identify with your story and have also been diagnosed with PTSD. For many years I was misdiagnosed and suffered with major depression, anxiety, insomnia, anorexia, and OCD. Drugs, drinking and self-harm were my medications. Rage was my relief valve.
Finally a female doctor at the VA convinced me of the PTSD diagnosis and helped me learn how to deal with the symptoms.
Thank you for your honesty and sharing your journey. Resteeming🐓
I think trauma is a vastly underlooked reason for mental illness in our society, and it can manifest in so many different ways that it disguises itself as other mental disorders. I had the same experience - anorexia, depression, anxiety, etc. were all just manifestations of my trauma and me trying to cope with it. Some psychologists think most mental illness is trauma-based.
I honestly had no idea what was wrong with me up until a few years ago. I just thought I was "Crazy"