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Let’s stop glorifying trauma 🛑 ✋

“That trauma made you who you are today”
-Well, no actually the choices I made due to the trauma I experienced with no choice is what made me who I am. I made me who I am today. That trauma makes who I am today struggle so much with going through life in a normal and functional way. 🙃

“Look at who you are now. That trauma made you stronger.”
- Am I actually that strong? or am I just detached ? 🤔 and incapable of forming meaningful and lasting connection from the lack of not being able to feel certain emotions that I wish I could feel?

“If that never happened, then you wouldn’t be here”
-and I’d choose to go back and reverse what happened rather than be here and deal with the trauma I don’t even know how to fix.

So let’s shushhhhh 🤫 about the trauma making you a better person. It didn’t, you did that all on your own.
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Justenjoyit · 61-69, M
I think if you have become yourself after many years of working on yourself and growing you would rather try to help others help themselves rather than making it all about you, It took me 30 years to correct the negative experiences in my childhood but sadly for my sister it affected her differently.