Five letters
Cptsd
A diagnosis, more importantly
validation
Cptsd
five letters
and my stomach has been sick for 18 days
five letters
Cptsd
and my breath is taken
panic, deodorant, body odor, gulping air, stunned and hyperventilating
Cptsd
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and my body crawls at night
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Cptsd
I saw the way you looked at me
hypervigilance, paranoia, waiting for the other shoe to drop
Cptsd
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abandoned, confused, broken-hearted
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Cptsd
reality and confusion
memories and delusion
Cptsd
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realizing you were fucked from the beginning
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Cptsd
disassociate
Cptsd
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death is here, there and everywhere
it is permanently anticipated
it is deserved
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Cptsd
Rage
sadness
hopelessness
loneliness
rejection
exploitation
manipulation
invalidation
triangulation
realization that the idealization was a true abomination
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YOU ARE READING
Five Letters
PoetryPutting the pieces of childhood trauma and abuse into words. Saying it out loud, because there are more of us than we realize. knowing that we are not alone is key to recovery.
