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[adrienmundi]

I worry that I have repetitive stress injury of the heart/mind.

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[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

This is one hell of an apt metaphor I think

[adrienmundi]

I certainly don't think it's unique to me, and make no claims of point(s) of origin or the responsibility thereof, but it's here and I don't like it.

[skiadaimonos.livejournal.com]

I was not praising your literary ingenuity exactly..... :-p



A very similar line of thought and conceptualization turned out to be very useful for me. Here's hoping it may serve similarly for you.

[adrienmundi]

I am curious; would you care to expand on that?

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

PTSD is under-reported.

[adrienmundi]

You're not the first person to suggest similarities to PTSD. For some reason, I want to resist that, like in some way my history isn't bad enough to justify full blown PTSD, but maybe I'm not in the best position to judge.

[sarendipatree.livejournal.com]

"sub-clinical." I have had ptsd-like symptoms for years regarding a fire that happened in my apartment in Minneapolis. It disturbs my mental health some, but not enough that I'm motivated enough to get counseling or whatever. (The cure is often worse than the disease in my view of Western medicine, including the psychiatric varieties.) I think that a lot of fairly standard situations one might find one's self in during the daily course of events in western society are disturbing enough to cause psychic imprints; sort of a societal shadow on the psyche. That's the way I experience it anyway. =%>

[adrienmundi]

That makes sense... damn it. Now I've got to deal with it ;)

[srl.livejournal.com]

as the commenter says below, "sub-clinical." Plenty of genderqueers of my acquaintance have trauma aftereffects that come and go, enough that I routinely ask people I'm getting to know what triggers they have that I should know about, just in case.

[adrienmundi]

I'm just sooooo tired of walking into things that are either invisible or second nature to others.