KittenPenpals

Ich bin weiblich, 25 Jahre alt, und ich lebe in Vereinigte Staaten .

Ich spreche Englisch

Mitglied seit über 4 Jahren. (Veteran)

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• Etwas, das du der Welt erzählen willst

  Always be kind to people. You never know what they are going through. The way people treat each other are usually indicators of how they were raised. Most of the time people are going through things and don't know how to handle the big feelings, so they lash out in anyway that they know how.

• Ich wünschte, die Menschen würden mehr wissen über...

  I wish people understood mental illnesses like Borderline Personality Disorder, and other trauma-based illnesses. Especially when it comes to “splitting” and flashbacks. There have been times where I am not actually in control of my body, said things I didn’t mean, or did things I shouldn’t have done. It’s not because I set out to do those things, my brain is in survival mode and doing what it deems appropriate to ensure survival. I’ve worked really hard on avoiding or working through triggers, although I still struggle a lot with tone and emotional flashbacks. Flashbacks are not like you see in the movies, it’s a whole body feeling of a time where you remember a past experience that left you feeling a certain way. Someone yells, and suddenly I am 7 years old again, confused and broken all over again. Trauma is something that CAN cause real brain damage, brain injuries don’t have to be physically induced to cause long lasting damage.