I want to talk about a mental health, nature of complex trauma and psychotherapy as a way to explore your inner world.
What the heck, Crypty?
Happened that since last spring I started gathering information about complex trauma. It started accidentally, I just saw a random video about it in YT and decided to listen for general education. I felt overwhelmed because it perfectly described my problems and explained what experience in the past may cause them. Instantly I got hungry about it and started digging deeper.
What I achieved
As I feel, a lot. For several months I got rid of paralyzing shame, unreasonable loneliness and itchy wish to attract attention of some people. It all reduced daily stress and anxiety, improved my motivation and sleep quality and made me feel more healthy physically in general. As you can see, the progress is pretty much real.
Some boring details of personal experience:
How my process looks
Nothing special. I'm just listening lectures with names catching my eye and trying to apply to my current state, if it's being talked not about me at all, fits partially or describes me perfectly. There I can find an explanation why I feel this way and why I shouldn't and, sometimes, how to fix it. That's it. Knowledge and understanding is key for healing itself. When I meet unhealthy emotion again I recognize it and remind myself that it's unhealthy and where it comes from.
About information sources
I talked to good therapists, bad therapists, expensive therapists (all of them was, actually). But the best results I achieved from self analysis.
There's some thematic YT channels exist. All of them are telling the same more or less. Here's some channels with good reviews I found:
https://youtube.com/@timfletcher
https://youtube.com/@crappychildhoodfairy
https://youtube.com/@thepersonaldevelopmentschool
I got stick with Tim Fletcher personally, by the reason I discovered his blog first. Crappy Childhood Fairy is really popular, I bet because of catchy name =P
Why I share
First I didn't want to share it with anyone except some friends who I already told being emotional, because this topic is... sensitive. But later I started noticing that some other forummates are telling about being depressed without actual external reason. And I thought that even if I overcame so much for several months, I didn't know where to start for many MANY years.
So even if at least one person will find this topic useful I have no reasons to regret that I brought it out to the light.
In addition, I'm not a qualified therapist, I don't make diagnosis and can't tell people what to do. But, definitely, I can show what can be achieved on my own example to cheer and motivate others to explore themselves.
Cheers. Your pal Crypty.
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