Topic Tuesday // PTSD & Post Traumatic Growth // Tues 20 Feb, 7pm AEDT

[Shaz51]

still plenty of time @Former-Member 

Hello @Mee 

[Former-Member]

Hi @Mee and welcome, glad to have you join us and share your experiences and thoughts on this subject

[Mee]

Hello @Former-Member ☺

[Phoenix_Rising]

@Mee I'm really sorry that a therapist called you a liar. What happened to you when you were so young was truly awful and you deserved to be believed. I believe you. 

[Mee]

Hello Shaz51

[Former-Member]

I'm not sure I've kept up with the convo - but I'm loving it so thank you - but to pick up on the re-telling piece....

I think that making meaning out of trauma and tragedy is a key piece in PTG.  But that's very unlikely to be possible in the immediate aftermath.  There's too much shock, pain and confusion.  Too much struggle.  And who's to say how long the  'immediate aftermath' lasts anyway.  It's so individual and there's no time-limit.  You can be thrust back into the immediate aftermath after a recovered memory and re-triggering event.  So it's not about dates and timelines.

But when it comes to making meaning I think of someone like Rosie Batty.  Who took such a horrifying trauma and turned it into a crusade.  Not all traumas, and the subsequent actions, are that dramatic and high profile.  But many of us will have more personal examples of how we took something truly terrible and found a way to give it meaning.    

[Phoenix_Rising]

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@BlueBaywrote:

Yeah @Phoenix_Rising I understand now.  thanks.  Sorry I'm a bit slow and sometimes i need a bit of explaining. 🙂

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@BlueBay slow is my favourite speed. I'm a sea turtle you know. 

[Former-Member]

Hi @Former-Member, too much catching up to do, I wouldn’t know where to start. I’ve changed through trauma, I can see the change through trauma in adolescence and early adulthood, but I will never know if I’ve grown through the early childhood trauma. That’s just who I am I guess, we’ll never know? I cannot judge if I don’t remember how it formed me? I only get glimpses of childhood trauma and even less of early childhood.

[Mee]

Thankyou @Phoenix_Rising. It was so frustrating for so long....... I knew I didn't imagine it all... ☺