Toxicity

Garmezy, and about the strategies of resilient children, the learning from adversity, the seeking out mentors to replace absentee parents, I’d done all of that, I would read about it and cry. When I had PTSD, I had no concept of the future. During the first year, I couldn’t even visualise the next day, it was very limiting, then it gradually expand... See more

During that year I just cried and cried not understanding why I still lived

Unless something is truly dangerous or violent, I’ll rationalise it away, I’ll think I can make anything work