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I discuss my traumas in dozens of entries, and yet, haven't really talked about coping outside of my exposure therapy for social phobia.
In my previous entry, I talked about trauma and maladaptive coping, leaving adaptive coping tools to this present one.
Today, I'm discussing Pre-trauma, PTSD and maladaptive coping. Indeed, I recently read Ochberg's PTSD therapy book, where, in pages 246-251, his collaborator John P. Wilson
explains the relation of PTSD to personality disorders, and personality propensities.
6 weeks ago, I'd announced a new series, health updates, which I hoped to post more or less monthly.
I didn't update you about my DSFP post op recovery in a whole month, so it's about time to correct my oversight.
Elsewhere, I discussed multiple traumas that I
experienced, their daily impacts on me, my maladaptive coping, and today, I
want to discuss the topic of Identity.
I mentioned the
depersonalization and conditioning that I endured as a child, and as a teen.
This, and multiple traumas, as soon as in the womb and post-birth makes it
impossible to defining who I am and what my personality is outside of my
trauma-induced mindset and values. Thus, the goal of my therapy isn't a full
recovery or regaining pre-trauma capabilities, but to learn to better cope with
my trauma, and building both adaptive coping, and my identity.
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