man if u ever in your life have the opportunity to see a therapist i’m literally begging you to do so bc they really do just straighten your stuff out so blunt like when I was 17 my dad died in a fire while he was between life insurance so we had nothing and the bank took our house and we lost like everything and when I was 20 I said I didn’t know why I think the way I do and my therapist said “that’s normal for victims of trauma” and I said “but I haven’t been through any trauma” and the look she gave me was more potent than any verbal wakeup call I’ve ever gotten in my entire life
you may think “that’s nice but I actually don’t have trauma or a good reason to be the way I am. I’m just broken and bad,”
but I’m here to tell you I LITERALLY thought the same way. And looking back that’s so….Like I’m sure any of you reading what happened to me would say “yeah that’s valid trauma.” But I really thought I’d been through nothing and had no “excuse.”
You’re not different than me. You’re not bad.
