I think I had a pretty traditional shitty Asian childhood with a little added physical and emotional abuse. It’s not uncommon in our culture - distant dad and overwhelmed mom. But damn, it still hurts when I hear about others’ parents who were just normal and caring; even after so much therapy! #trauma

Society has been mechanizing itself since forever, but accelerated 150 years ago.

Does the rise of #psychology as a concept—or of #trauma—correlate to industrialization?

Just asking questions.

#history #art
https://mastodon.world/@davidnjoku/115635239526956678

Cis people should begin intentionally being problematic in public fashion to support #trans people. Please make a scene. I would have given anything to have someone stand up for me when I was younger and didn’t have anyone to support me. Don’t let adults pick on trans people and trans kids because they’re hateful bullies. Don’t let your family get away with it, either.

Staying silent is YOU enabling their abuse towards us.

They’re spreading #TRAUMA not just OPINIONS and they’re HURTING PEOPLE.

Question about autism

Is there a specific relationship between autism and trauma? Specifically, many micro traumas that would amount to a psychological state akin to a trauma response? (Of my understanding anyway, a trauma response would be defined as psychological insecurity, avoidance, fear reactions or elevated stress when near the source of trauma: I also think it's a spectrum of intensity)

In my case, I do have a reaction like my description, albeit small. I am not comparing my situation to someone who experienced Trauma with a big T. And the trauma response is not something I'm familiar with, hence the question.

But what I experience feels like it. (In one specific domain of my life, and I will not divulge it).

#ActuallyAutistic #trauma #autism

Cis people should begin intentionally being problematic in public fashion to support #trans people. Please make a scene. I would have given anything to have someone stand up for me when I was younger and didn’t have anyone to support me. Don’t let adults pick on trans people and trans kids because they’re hateful bullies. Don’t let your family get away with it, either.

Staying silent is YOU enabling their abuse towards us.

They’re spreading #TRAUMA not just OPINIONS and they’re HURTING PEOPLE.

I'm on @delta delta chat now! I want to host a group for abuse survivors and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out bots and abusers.

Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

I'm on @delta delta chat now! I want to host a group for abuse survivors and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".

I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.

So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!

And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.

I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.

We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.

Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!

The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).

DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out bots and abusers.

Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.

#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor

📝 Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier 📝

"Reprocessing Episodic Memory", an addition to Project Restoration, and how I've been spending free time thinking about the brain.

> ... blasting the prefrontal cortex with supra-physiological dopamine levels ... blunt-force impact trauma ... boosting its metabolic precursor l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine ...

- https://prose.winterschon.com/reprocessing-episodic-memory/

#neurology #neuroscience #dopamine #psychology #photography #therapy #research #healthcare #trauma #ptsd #writing

📝 Crossing the Blood Brain Barrier 📝

"Reprocessing Episodic Memory", an addition to Project Restoration, and how I've been spending free time thinking about the brain.

> ... blasting the prefrontal cortex with supra-physiological dopamine levels ... blunt-force impact trauma ... boosting its metabolic precursor l-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine ...

- https://prose.winterschon.com/reprocessing-episodic-memory/

#neurology #neuroscience #dopamine #psychology #photography #therapy #research #healthcare #trauma #ptsd #writing

Why Can’t I remember my Childhood

I cried watching this video. I relate so much. I have so much missing time that I only became aware of when my parents divorced and was no longer living with my father.
I don’t know what is in that time, but there used to be recurring nightmares and unstoppable lower back spasms like someone was touching me I didn’t want when I was in bed, that I had as a child, and sought medical help for, that make me go 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhpofVGglE

#trauma #mentalhealth

Why Can’t I remember my Childhood

I cried watching this video. I relate so much. I have so much missing time that I only became aware of when my parents divorced and was no longer living with my father.
I don’t know what is in that time, but there used to be recurring nightmares and unstoppable lower back spasms like someone was touching me I didn’t want when I was in bed, that I had as a child, and sought medical help for, that make me go 🤔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fhpofVGglE

#trauma #mentalhealth

Addressing the Double Bind of Women’s Anger After Trauma

“Compounding recovery from problem anger after trauma is that healthy anger in women is pathologized. Societal forces, some universal and others culturally specific, include the perceived values of femininity, motherhood, and inappropriateness of anger in women. This is not an outdated notion—contemporary research has shown that women’s anger is unacceptable to 94% of individuals.”

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2831149

#JAMA #WomensHealth #trauma #menopause #perimenopause #study