On the topic of Mental Health Advice That Sounds Overused but Has a Point:
To Whom it May Concern,
“It’s not real, it can’t hurt you anymore” was not supposed to be about whoever or whatever hurt you in the first place. It’s about whatever situations or places continue to trigger you after the fact, despite them only being tangentially related to the trauma. You have so much more control over that than you do the past. If you’re up to some homemade exposure therapy, go for it.
Sincerely,
Somebody who spent over a year scared of their fucking kitchen before figuring this shit out last night
I used my phone in my living room for the first time last week. The living room in my apartment where my family does not live. The apartment I have lived in for a year and a half. I’ve been irrationally afraid someone is going to yell at me for being lazy.
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u/BalefulOfMonkeys Refined Sommelier of Porneaux 2d ago
On the topic of Mental Health Advice That Sounds Overused but Has a Point:
To Whom it May Concern,
“It’s not real, it can’t hurt you anymore” was not supposed to be about whoever or whatever hurt you in the first place. It’s about whatever situations or places continue to trigger you after the fact, despite them only being tangentially related to the trauma. You have so much more control over that than you do the past. If you’re up to some homemade exposure therapy, go for it.
Sincerely,
Somebody who spent over a year scared of their fucking kitchen before figuring this shit out last night