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How I Healed my PTSD

The following are the various steps I took to heal myself from PTSD, I did not go to a therapy because I couldn’t trust people so this took a lot longer than it should have. Some of this will be considered woo-woo and toxic positivity, but it all helped. My PTSD was extravagant. I didn’t trust the ground beneath me was actually there. I freaked out that I was falling when sitting on the ground. My fear of people was so bad I couldn’t go grocery shopping unless it was 2am. I believed if a man was in reaching distance of me that he was going to kill me. I was having panic attacks in my sleep, waking up with heart issues. Some days it was bad enough I thought “this is it, I’m going to have a heart attack and die.” At first I resigned myself to my fate; no one cared, I lost the best life could have been, I obviously wasn’t worth staying alive. Avoiding the Triggers Yes this is not recommended, but for the beginning part of my journey it was necessary to stay away from anythi...