/feels/ - Advice & Venting

You can’t put a broken glass together, but mentally, you’re not glass. You’re not born perfect and that fragile. Trauma doesn’t really make you broken irreversibly, but it can until you have the support and the understanding to recover. (Like people who actually get what you went through help a lot)

I had stress so severe it was incomprehensible to others when I tried to explain, never vented so the shit kept building up and my mental functioning began to actually shut down from being unable to carry that weight. That went on until I got to a safe environment with safe people who treated me normally. Then my functioning gradually started restoring because I had only functioning issues and an attitude. I’m “scarred forever” in the sense my developmental path had shifted, but I’m not suffering from past events anymore.

Idk if it made sense nona just wanted to share my experience.

>Can bad days, trauma, mental scars, and nightmares from bad experiences ever be healed?
Dunno :( I'm waiting for mine to go away, but it's been so long and I'm tried. Only good thing is, I forget less traumatic events over the years.
I guess "time heals" is a real thing?

>>128263
this 100%

just like flesh, the mind can heal
does it mean everyone will heal ? no
does it mean no one has a chance to heal ? no

>>128282
In fact I’d argue purely psychological trauma is unlikely to cause irreversible damage unlike what can happen to your body. Most damage is functional and just requires a lot of effort to relearn. I’m not an expert on this topic tho so feel free to correct me on that.