Qt/tra, how does identity form?

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[–]circlingmyownvoid2 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You can’t change your core. You can learn to cope. You can learn to understand the state your in but you can’t untraimatize a brain.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Tell that to people with BPD who successfully do DBT. Tell that to trauma survivors who had defined themselves by their trauma and no longer do. Tell that to ED patients terrified and ashamed of having human needs, they’ll never learn better.

Goddamn, the way you insist that because you aren’t well, nobody else ever will be, is so fucked up I can’t even begin to tell you.

Thousands of traumatised people move on every day. Your choice to be miserable doesn’t make their successes a lie.

[–]circlingmyownvoid2 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

You don’t stop having BPD or Being traumatized. You learn to cope or medicate but you don’t just stop. Coping mechanisms like say changing your body to better fit yourself for taking medication to feel better. Like transition.

I don’t know what you mean by the ED part. I’m assuming you don’t mean Ehlers Danlos.

[–]Juniperius 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sure you do. It's very common as people get older and go through treatment for their therapist to say they "no longer fit the diagnostic criteria for BPD," for example.