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🔞Umbra
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Manufactured in the 1900's.
Concept and Comic artist but doesn’t post art
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Obsessed with demons, cyberpunk and sci fi.
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lucyfr.ee
stumbling across this random tumblr post honestly changed my life . as soon as i started looking into it so many things i had been wondering about for years finally started to make sense
creature-wizard : Folks have got to understand that they probably aren't messed up by some Secret Big Trauma that they just can't remember; but rather by a million tiny microtraumas that they do mostly remember but don't even register as traumatic because nobody actually understood that these things would cause trauma, much less stack on each other over the years. lost-estradiographer : Whether you're carrying one big rock or a big ol' bucket of sand, it's going to weigh on you just as much. ramshacklefey : This is why psychologists have started taking more of an interest in CPTSD in the last 10-15 years. What most people know as PTSD is a response to a single, intensely traumatic event (or even a series of events). However, CPTSD (chronic post-traumatic stress disorder) is caused by living for years in a situation where your nervous system cannot catch a break. Even if nothing huge ever happened to you, you always had to be on guard for a thousand little things that could and did happen. After years and years of this, your nervous system gets "stuck" in an activated threat response. It never really lets you rest, and if this started when you were a kid, you may not develop a lot of neural pathways that you should have, because your brain was too focused on keeping you safe to bother with little things like "genuine human connection" and "interpersonal attachment." naamahdarling No lie, Complex PTSD/CPTSD is HUGE. If you are disabled, if you are queer, if you are chronically ill, if you are the survivor of a toxic but not abusive relationship, if you grew up or lived under the threat of harm but no "actual" harm (or "very little" harm) was done, you may have CPTSD that isn't getting caught because CPTSD looks different from PTSD.
August 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM