@healingwithchels: When survival mode becomes your everyday baseline with CPTSD, you develop adaptations that help you make it through the unthinkable. Through healing and post-traumatic growth, you may learn to use some of these abilities to your advantage. But calling them “superpowers” doesn’t mean they aren’t also debilitating. These adaptations were built for survival… not for feeling safe. Once you’re no longer in that environment, they can consume your life, exhaust your nervous system and make healing incredibly difficult. Your body is trying to protect you but sometimes the same protection that helped you survive can begin hurting you. What CPTSD survival adaptation would you add to this list?