50 ‘Cool Guides’ People Shared On This Group That Contain Information They Don’t Teach At School

I want to print this and put it in my cubicle.

This is a good idea, but the fourth sign will be confusing in a Heavy Metal Club.

I'm also sad!

Oh dear... I didn't realise I was that bad. Thanks dad.

There is something called cPTSD, or "complex PTSD", which occurs in those of us whose trauma was inflicted steadily, readily, constantly, throughout childhood or over decades in adulthood. We have no pre-trauma life, so we aren't typical PTSD patients in that sense. We don't have a "normal" we miss. We freak out at what others call normal. It's real. it sucks. Abused children often grow up to develop this type of PTSD, in my experience (and my peer support PTSD group).... Let us heal. We may not fully heal ever, but since some were hurt before they could speak words? ... It's harder than most think.

I had all of these signs in my teens and 20s... and I wouldn't (then) have said I had been mentally abused. If you can get therapy, do. It does help.

I wasn’t mentally abused (I’m honestly not sure at this point), and I fit this..

I hadn't realised but this IS me. Abusive relationship decades ago still affecting me..

f**k I have all of these

I... fit

I know such person. Where can you find how to help? It's much more difficult than it looks like here. It's not just "be patient".

I never thought I was mentally abused... but this describes me

AKA "Emotional abuse" -- had a boyfriend like that in college. Still have the emotional scars 30 years later.

I’ve wondered why my friends worry about me, and now I realize: they knew more about me than I did

Sad, that's the majority of ppl

Depressed Anonymous https://depressedanon.com/

I still struggle with some of this

Really? When was I mentally abused? Why don’t I know?

this is me but i haven't been mentally abused? i have several mental disorders though

I was never abused, but I do a lot of this and I don't know why.

I'm struggling to ask for patience and with being honest in my new company, because you're not supposed to be vulnerable in business. Having worked for places that weaponized my honesty didn't help. I'm getting better, but it will take a minute.

...have I been mentally abused?

Still bad after my marriage ended 30 years ago.

i dont think ive been mentally abused, but i do all those things

It takes tons and tons of patience and there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the world. When you start to get comfortable because you’re certain you’ve processed all that... turmoil... it comes back with a vengeance Don’t worry about the ones going through this if they haven’t come out the other side after a certain time that they “aren’t there yet” but be there for them, without thinking there is a max. timespan they might exceed. There is no end to that healing. There are a lot of levels and roads the healing process can lead you in and if you’re lucky, you won’t experience a certain trigger that will open up these trauma’s again no matter how well it’s processed or how stable you have become. It’s just a roll of a dice... like rubber bands you can be as strong as you are, the principe of max. strain until breakage still applies. Things that causes accute stress (like being tired or hungry) build up and either only strain or break that mental resilience healing turns in to

wow, I never put it together that my abuse and my way of reacting to things were connected. I thought I was just a bad person

My daughter shows all of these :( One day soon I’m going to have words with her dad..and it won’t be pretty 😡🤬

My daughter is pretty much all of those, but it's depression and anxiety plus she is on the spectrum. So this is not 100% of people who display this behavior.

Good grief. This is me... but no worries - regardless of this I'm still going to be told by "well meaning people" that I just need to: "open up more, you are shutting people out"... and "You're being really unempathetic, I can tell you're hiding what you really feel"... "Oh my gawd, I told you it's FINE already, why do you need to ask again? STOP APOLOGIZING" - because yeah... that all helps a whole lot.

Whole lotta people about to get emailed.

OoOo I will consider this if I renovate my house

totally correct!

This should be shown to everyone :D

Where is this theme park??! ;-)

that's it,

Thanks, I will show this to my friend

How about let people eat steak how they like it. The chef can shove the rare steak where the sun don’t shine.

I'm so bad at crafting, mine would probably end up being just confetti :/

The niqab and the burka should not be legal in our society. First because the face is the way of conveying emotions and covering it it’s dehumanising but specially for security. The other veils should be all legal for adults but not for kids since they cannot consent to them. I am heartbroken each time that I see a 8yo covered like if she needs to be hidden while her brothers run around freely.

Also Mayfly will certainly fly (I'll see myself out)

Good office lighting has a function to simluate daylight. Very warm with the early morning, going towards natural through the day, then back to normal in the evening. If you get good LED drivers, you can drive RGBW LED stripes like this.

I will rather be less of a boss than give up "No worries".

or ninjas