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normal: feeling emotionally numb after a stressful event

not normal: feeling emotionally numb is your standard way of being

normal: experiencing confusion around your emotions when overwhelmed, but generally being able to identify what you’re feeling

not normal: not being able to break your emotions apart at all, or only being able to identify the difference between feeling “bad” or feeling “good”

normal: occasionally having a gap between your cognitive processing of emotions and the emotions themselves (e.g head vs heart)

not normal: feeling like you only have “head” emotions, or feeling like your emotions are always muddled

normal: feeling emotions in both your mind and in your body, without having to think about it

not normal: only knowing what you’re feeling after consciously analysing what your body is doing (e.g. “oh my stomach feels weird. this must be anxiety?”)

normal: partially using emotions to make decisions, and then being able to identify what emotions led to that decision

not normal: going entirely off “gut instinct” without fully understanding why you’ve made that decision (e.g. “I don’t know what I want to do, I’ll just do what has the vibes”)

They don't really feel like "normal" memories. That's because they tend to come in the form of flashing images, emotions, and bodily sensations rather than recall memory. It doesn't feel like I lived through those events in first-person, even if they feel visceral during flashbacks.

They come in pieces. A lot of the time it's like following a trail of breadcrumbs, and it takes a long time to make sense of all the details (if that ever happens).

Some of the details are almost definitely not accurate - but that DOESN'T mean the events themselves didn't happen. It means that human memory doesn't work like a video camera, and sometimes it scrambles things. Sometimes two or more events get blended together because my brain saw them as "the same" experience.

Digging things up can be more painful than you'd imagine. No matter how "prepared" you think you are, you won't know what it's like until/unless you go through recovering repressed memories. I was stable enough to start processing my repressed trauma, but uncovering that trauma destabilized me again. I expect to go through that routine more than once until I've really processed it all, or as much of it as necessary to heal.

normal: losing touch with reality whilst focusing incredibly hard on something

not normal: losing touch with reality when not otherwise engaged with something else. losing touch with reality to the extent that you can’t go about your daily tasks

normal: feeling numb after hearing some big news (positive or negative)

not normal: feeling numb most (or all) of the time

normal: feeling floaty or foggy after an exhausting day or week

not normal: feeling floaty or foggy for seemingly no reason, or when you’re otherwise not exhausted

normal: after reading a book or watching a film, it takes you a while to get your brain plugged back into the real world

not normal: you feel unplugged from reality even without having engaged with media intensely

normal: you daydream to pass the time, or when you have nothing else to do

not normal: you daydream as a way of escaping from reality, and it gets in the way of your daily tasks

#just a reminder to any POC people that follow me: please DO NOT be afraid to send me long and detailed asks explaining the specific problems and extent of harm done by my art if i ever make art that includes any racist stereotypes #i'm Just Some Guy please educate me

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#OP i completely agree #literally [completely new statement in direct opposition to the statement made in the post]

#im sorry for being american #im sorry for being white #im sorry for being a man #im sorrty i know it hurts ppl i hate myself i hate myself i hate myself

#house md did an episode on this #queuenited healthcare shooting

#tw colonization #ok unrelated but this actually rly reminds me of how certain ppl behave in the tadc fandom

#as a white person i approve this message

#Look I'm white as the freshly fallen snow and even I know not to do this #Do better y'all

#im white but im appalachian and we experience this too #so i relate

#like i agree but op can you stop yelling

#People in real life: Hey man how are you

#WAIT WHATS TRANSMIGOSYNY HELP- #IM NOT CHRONICALLY ONLINE CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN PLS😭😭😭

#some people act like this because of autism but otherwise i agree

#Please know that there are good men and not all men are bad and men can be very healing #and a real man would never act like this you should never worry about men because most men are normal

#sure i'll reblog that