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Starry-Eyed Polar Bear

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Feeding Birds Bead Frame - orange tree toys

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I wanna call this the 'Ineffable niblings' AU. Little Ash and Uriel from 'When the angels left the old country' would have so much to talk about with the ineffables! Thought I'd do a little crossover for passover, featuring an orange on a seder plate because I love the idea.

Chag Pesach Sameach!

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Something From Nothing (1989)

Story and Art: Phoebe Gilman

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i dont want to be this body anymore!

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Obligatory Moon Knight

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words tricky brain fog. confuse feelings. happy greatful hopeful. tired scared small. want cry scream run. want talk text write. words tricky. want be okay.

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PTSD is your brain trying to make sure you DON’T DIE.

Humans are really good at adapting so that we don’t die.  That’s kind of our whole *THING*.  We adapt.

If something BAD and SCARY and DANGEROUS happens, your brain tries to teach you to react better next time.  If the Bad Scary Dangerous thing happens a lot, that’s reinforcing it.  With CPTSD, the Bad Scary Dangerous thing happened often enough and frequently enough that your whole psyche developed around it.

You learn to notice the tiny things that signal the Bad Scary Dangerous Thing might happen - even if you don’t consciously know that you know that - so that you are braced to react and defend yourself.  They become triggers so that you are primed to respond.

Hypervigilance? Better to panic unnecessarily than to get dead because you didn’t recognize a threat in time, right?  It’s uncomfortable and a waste of energy but you’re not dead.

Nightmares about the Bad Thing?  Dreams are PRACTICE.  You are trying to learn how to react better or faster or more effectively next time.

Avoidance? Dissociating is better than just completely breaking and shutting down entirely.

The thing is, even if you are not in that situation anymore, your brain did not get the memo.  It is trying! But it takes a lot of work to convince it that ��No really, it is safe now!���

I guess what I’m saying is cut yourself some slack.  You are doing your best and you’re not dead. <3

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image id: some cartoon dinosaurs are putting together a Seder plate. the text reads chag Pesach sameach