@healingwithchels: For years, I thought something was wrong with me. I could clearly remember what happened, but once the crisis passed, I would start questioning myself. Maybe it wasn’t that bad. Maybe I was overreacting. Maybe I was being too sensitive. One reason this can happen with CPTSD is emotional amnesia… a trauma response where you become disconnected from the emotional impact of what happened, even if you still remember the events themselves. For me, it was one of the reasons I stayed longer than I should have. Did you know this was a trauma response? 🤍

tim_bledsoe_8 :

Our minds protects us from these traumas wither they are big or small. My struggle with emotional amnesia is. Its hard to see everything in its totality. The next day the person might to some small act of kinds and I think they are not that bad and almost forgot how bad it was the day before. It almost like we live in what is called Stockholm syndrome as CPTSD survivors. Stockholm syndrome is a psychological response where victims of abuse, kidnapping, or captivity develop a strong emotional bond with their perpetrators over time. Driven by self-preservation and fear, captives may begin to sympathize with, defend, or align with their abusers. The phenomenon gets its name from an attempted 1973 bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. During a six-day hostage standoff, bank employees held in a vault developed a peculiar emotional attachment to their captors, even defending them publicly and refusing to cooperate with police after their release. Because it is rooted in a survival-oriented brain response to trauma, overcoming these attachments typically requires professional intervention. Treatment focuses on trauma-processing modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), to help survivors regain a sense of empowerment and safety.

Katy Addams :

I recorded the yelling at me and listen to it later. It helps to process it correctly for me.

Spin :

I don't trust anything I think or feel, and now I stay alone, no family, no friends...

Sheena Martin :

And when it comes BACK, it makes us look CRAZY because we are finally experiencing a backlog of emotions.

Kim Morris :

For years I always thought I just didn't hold a grudge or got over things quickly. I've been in therapy for about a year and I'm now so hurt and angry because I've been able to access the emotions

Ben :

I've never heard this articulated, but it's so accurate. Coupled with not being able to understand or experience the feelings until hours or days later, by the time I can verbalize how I felt, I've dissociated from the feelings.

Dragon with Nails :

Thank you for understanding

Sandra D 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 :

Wow. Thank you for making me feel so validated. 💕

violet :

DUDE I've been feeling CRAZY about this EXACT thing lately omggggg

🫚🔪Amy :

My journal keeping was invaluable to me for just that reason

🦊 :

amount of times i got back with people i shouldn’t have because of this 🙃

holly3barrel :

Well now I know what call it. helps me make sense of so much. still sucks just the same though. ty ❤️

taylorchasebuechter :

God, this. This. This. Even the memories will get foggy, of something that happened a few hours ago. Suddenly, I can’t even remember what they said that hurt.

Heather :

Now that my nervous system is regulating, there are memories coming back for me to process now that my body feels safe enough to process it

his_jordz_b :

ive always felt like this and I can never seem to trust my emotions on a day to day basis because I feel like im always over reacting or I dont even understand why I get a certain emotion

Sandra Hansen :

I relate to this so much Ive been doing this for years 😔🫂❤️

🎧hiphophoney4life🎧 :

Tricia :

Oh, yes!!

OsaReally :

That’s what that is…

Witwhimandwile :

I always question what a “normal” emotional reaction is, I’ll like quiz people, how would you respond? I watch tv and analyze how other people respond to try and get a baseline on what’s a normal and therefore “ok” emotional response…I still don’t feel like comfortable having a reaction. It doesn’t feel safe🤷‍♀️

A pocket full of posies :

This

DEVIL DOG COMMAND :

Yes

Soprano721 :

This happens to me all the time. I literally have to check in with someone to make sure it was real and I am not crazy.

Abba is my father :

Yes. I didn’t have a name for this!!!