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Don't Be Like Me and Assume You are Over PTSD

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You are here:  Home  » Don't Be Like Me and Assume You are Over PTSD Christopher and Nico and family enjoying pizza at one of our favorite restaurants.  July 23, 2022. July 31, 2022 I suppressed the trauma that occurred a decade ago by avoiding my thoughts of the incidents in my desire to feel normal again. If you think avoiding it was good to move forward, let's see who would want to be like me. Over the last 10 years, I have been going about my daily life as though nothing wrong had happened. Isn't that ridiculous? To assume I could just forget about being human? I mean, I got to the point where I would talk about my past trauma to people, and I was proud of myself because I thought I was a strong person for doing it. Self-thought- "Look at me, this badass cop moving on with his life after losing 2 kids and then my wife, nothing to see here." These traumatic incidents weren't a small thing, but I didn't think I was deserving of such pity, so I underplaye...