a little identity never hurt nobody

Like, I get it, it’s all gonna depend on who you’re with and how they tailor things and how good they are with trauma but like, lol I for one hate being told “It doesn’t matter what you feel, just accept that you feel awful and act in a certain way anyway.” And that’s even before the issue of, like, “Well if we’re focusing on actions, then it should just be about the body’s actions.”

... Which is I guess how "remembering things” tends to work, good job Serpent, but what I mean is that there hasn’t been many things reminding me of him lately?

... is also the same person who immediately brought up maladaptive daydreaming when 🎶 was explaining to them how it has memories of a different world.

Which I know is a very dumb and boring thing to still be bothered by, like shouldn't you be over it by now.

But y'know, came across a system describing having told their therapist about their exotrauma and getting called delusional for it, and importantly, being fine with/openly claiming that label -- and now I'm over here taking that kinda self-centredly personally, like oh right that's really objectively what this is, huh?

Like hell yeah, the cool lifestyle of *checks notes* having no offline social life whatsoever and only a scant online one because I'm unable to talk about myself at all, sharing time and a body and thus feeling a bit stymied in whatever hobbies and ~lifestyles~ I might actually want to choose, and of course chronic uncertainty about the stability of my existence.