safety-net-did:

canelante:

theentropywe:

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT

i feel like adding in the “was or could be perceived as [insert terrible thing here] is really important when discussing trauma. someone could be diagnosed with a disease that’s mostly benign, but if they percieved it as something that would take their life, it could still be traumatic.

THIS

this is so important.

my therapist spends so much time reminding me of this

staying in the hospital, as an infant, can be traumatic

moving houses, as a toddler, can be traumatic.

isolation, as a child, can be traumatic.

don’t look at your history through your grown and “knowing better” eyes. you have to look at it through the eyes of the little person you once were, where everything was new, and new can be scary if you’re not properly comforted and prepared.