@patrickteahanofficial: A top tier sign of childhood trauma is not having full access to our basic human emotions that we are born with. (joy, sadness, shame, disgust, curiosity, anger, surprise) When I started in therapy, all I could feel was shame and anxiety. I was scared of the fact that I couldn't feel joy, spontaneity, and real grief or appropriate sadness. I was intimately aware of feeling numb. We can feel that emotions such as joy, sadness, disgust and anger are somewhat broken for us. They're not. We are just disconnected with them. Hallmark commercials of family love can make a tiny, brief connection where you're a bit shocked about where all that emotion came from. As children, we leave our emotional body (emotions) to keep ourselves safe, and I wish we could choose to keep the joy and skip the fear, but it doesn't work like that when a child isn't safe. There are innate feelings we are all born with. I discuss this in depth in a YouTube video called "3 Unnamed Childhood Trauma Symptoms - CPTSD" a quick google with bring it right up for you. The concept is something I call compromised emotional imbalance. Disgust is often confusing - if you have ever been in an abusive relationship, lack of anger and disgust of how the person is treating you is a sign that your innate anger and disgust are disconnected. They are not lost, broken and never part of you, they are just disconnected. You just need to get plugged into them. I was able to get the spectrum of basic feelings back by processing my childhood story with safe people in therapy and finishing the emotional business I had with my family. We can't make the connection without digging up what happened to us in safety. Check out the Monthly Healing Community: Link In Bio #derealization #depersonalization #repressedemotions #childhoodtrauma #innerchildren #toxicfamily #shame #disgusted #joy

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Thursday 17 August 2023 13:00:00 GMT