Lots to Talk About

How's the weekend (unless it's already Monday in your time zone)? Which makes this kind of a silly opening.
Lots of triggering stuff everywhere you look. What helps you to keep your balance?

For us, prioritizing is one key. What do you have to watch, read or listen to? Do you really have to read this, or not? This weekend it was literally like everything was triggering. There was no safe place to go (other than your favorite CD's). Have you found safer sources to help you keep up with the world?

Another key is sources that you trust. While we're all for trauma survivors getting help, be very cautious in where you go. Sounds obvious, but it's important for this reason. Unfortunately, not everybody is who they say they are. Even at some crisis centers or trauma forums online. We've had several nasty experiences with many who didn't want us around for no valid reason. A well-known trauma forum for rape survivors has two administrators who are pedophiles. For various reasons, we won't name them here. However, we checked this out with a source that we trust and they confirmed that yes, two pedophiles are in charge of this site.

Does this mean trust no one? No. It just means don't take anything at face value. Do your homework before you expose yourself to a potentially dangerous environment.

If we get into specific triggers, this will turn into yet another progressive political blog. There are more than enough of those as it is. We're really trying to stick to only trauma related issues to be as helpful as possible.

We still have to scream and fight to focus when we wake up. Dissociating is still there. Also, at times real emptiness. You exist and you know you have to keep moving forward. Yet, the tiniest things take enourmous amounts of energy. Which means at the end of the day what do you do then?