@healingwithchels: Fawning is a survival response many of us developed with CPTSD 🤍Which sign hit you the hardest? If you’re stuck in the fawn response it can help to: 🤍 Pause before automatically saying “yes.” 🤍 Ask yourself, “What do I actually want?” 🤍 Practice setting small, low-risk boundaries. 🤍 Notice when guilt shows up after saying no. 🤍 Remind yourself that disagreement doesn’t equal rejection. 🤍 Spend time with people who respect your boundaries. 🤍 Practice self-compassion instead of self-criticism.
I even catch myself over fawning when I receive a compliment. instead of just saying 'thanks' its like an automatic default to explain how absolutely magnificent the giver of the compliment is 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️its a REALLY hard program to uninstall cuz u feel like u need to earn every crumble of love💔it sure is humbling to try to rein in a cptsd brain 🧠 on auto pilot doing its thing 😓
2026-07-28 16:48:20
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Will TheFourth :
I need to study more about this. my cptsd is brutal. fawning is my go to and I didnt realize it til I sat with this post. here comes my next deep dive. ty for posting this <3
2026-07-26 09:22:15
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MEDIGILIANO :
I'm terrified of another person being angry with me.
2026-07-26 08:24:51
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Linda 💚 :
I understand my brokenness so much now.
2026-08-03 15:37:44
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Shay🇨🇦 :
Im learning a-lot about my daughter. Thank you. So accurate.
2026-07-26 04:22:18
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Kristy Cordeux :
oh 100% honey!!!!! ur so right!!!!! Sometimes being alone is necessary to survive, but too often we don't give ourselves this time as it poured into other's instead of ourselves, but we always have to remember that we can't help anybody unless we help ourselves 1st!!!!! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
2026-07-26 03:32:03
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Thomas O'Pray :
Everyone assumes that I don't have trouble speaking my mind, but if someone I'm close to expresses frustration, disapproval, or anger, and I suddenly shut down. My ex got frustrated with me for not telling her how I felt, which made it harder to tell her. In the end, she left me because she didn't think I would ever want to get married - we had a dinner date scheduled 3 days later where I was going to ask her to marry me. I never told her.
2026-07-27 05:20:06
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dennis :
ex tried to do this to be a martyr and a hero to others to keep her image/ego up to get good supply.
2026-08-11 18:42:53
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serotonin_alchemist :
Omg yesss!!!
2026-07-27 23:12:36
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Kassandra :
very true and I've promised others with cptsd that they'll eventually accept some people are just evil and we adapt. eventually you'll do that all for yourself
we are wired very differently (studies shown our brainwaves are different due to what we experienced) but turn all the good things we do for others and put it towards ourselves. it takes a long time but it happens eventually if you dont give up and start realizing yourself 🖤
we cant rewire how our brain works but we adapt and learn that we need to change the survival mode to focusing on the fact we deserve someone to take care of us too. the downside is we cant 100% trust anyone but ourselves to take care of us but we diverted the need to please others to focusing on ourselves and the little world of people we chose 😅
2026-07-26 08:33:18
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Z Brewer :
This.
2026-07-27 02:14:13
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JAZAMIO :
reposted
2026-07-26 03:09:17
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Reginald Thursbee :
ugh, our stress responses 😫
2026-07-26 01:50:02
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IsekaiMePls🌎 :
thank you for posting
2026-07-26 01:59:50
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grumpy dumpy :
this is a serious topic, and I'm sorry to raise this... but "you're focused on breeding everyone else"? I'm listening with headphones and reading that caption, but you must have said a different word.
2026-07-30 14:07:35
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Nancy Allen :
I learned that I have done this with my boss who is an absolutely corrupt leader. She had me so controlled. And she is a psychologist and she knows I have CPTSD. Fuck.
2026-07-26 05:52:13
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Steven Cocks :
😞😞😞🇬🇧😞😞😞
2026-07-28 07:12:38
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Sadie-Anne :
❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🥰🥰🥰🥰
2026-07-26 11:20:55
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ellie :
💯
2026-08-21 13:44:54
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Larissa Kierzek :
🐤📹💎
2026-09-05 21:33:34
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Angeltherisen :
😞💔
2026-09-14 05:34:11
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