well uh i think i felt love for my parents for the first time just now how was your night
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
Been reading Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. Realized that in that book's ontology, interacting with other live humans is enough to put me in a (low-grade, very high-functioning) flashback.
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @QiaochuYuan
Woke up this morning and spent a few minutes reminding myself that I'm not gonna get yelled at for being late to a thing, it's OK, I'm safe...
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman
it's a good book for describing a bunch of symptoms of complex PTSD but imo it's too pessimistic about the prognosis. pete walker seems to think it's only something you can manage and i think it's something you can "cure" (not quite the right word tho)
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Replying to @QiaochuYuan
That's one of the 2 big things it gets wrong (not knowing about the kind of deep work things like meditation enable) - it also buys into the frame that trauma is mainly a problem deviants have, even as it points out a lot of things that imply our "normal" is trauma.
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @QiaochuYuan
E.g. it points out that (a) emotional neglect is enough to cause CPTSD, (b) successful treatment of CPTSD leads to above-"normal" emotional intelligence.
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Replying to @ben_r_hoffman @QiaochuYuan
Hm, if that's true, then shouldn't we reframe "healing from trauma" as "acquiring superpowers"? If it's about getting people *above* typical human baseline functioning?
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Replying to @s_r_constantin @ben_r_hoffman
sure, if you want to! i avoid that framing in public writing b/c i think it triggers unnecessary weird status stuff
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I get that, fair enough
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