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Bunn3y

590d

Does dealing with trauma ever get better? I’ve been struggling for 4 years… and the past 5 months I’ve started learning how to cope and forgetting what happened but lately it’s all coming back and I’m afraid my whole life will just be a constant back and forth between feeling content and being flooded with grief. I want the feelings to go away… I want the thoughts to leave me alone. I’m tired of feeling like I can’t trust myself or my experience isn’t valid because x y z or whatever on top of dealing with the things that happened. I want to believe I can tough it out and I’m better but I’m not and I’m afraid I won’t ever be able to. I just want to live… I want to be a happy and good person and I want to experience happy things but I’m haunted and I don’t know how to escape it. My life doesn’t feel like my own no matter how much I want to make it.

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    • opo

      590d

      @Bunn3y I feel like I was just dealt a bad hand. So much terrible things happened and are still happening and having an affect on me

    • opo

      590d

      No. It's been 7 years for me; things seem to get better for a while but then just go back the way they were. Every day I'm just trying to struggle throughout it. I do have what you would call dreams and ambitions, but I have not the determination to act on any of it, I've just been hoping that if I get by and do what I need to do that these things will miraculously happen.

      • Bunn3y

        590d

        @opo i understand exactly what you mean and it’s the most frustrating thing ever! I have so many ideas for the perfect life but I feel like … mine was ruined long before I could reach them and now im just kind of waiting for something to happen on its own because I have nothing left to push me to make it happen.

        • opo

          590d

          @Bunn3y I feel like I was just dealt a bad hand. So much terrible things happened and are still happening and having an affect on me

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