Work In Progress

As I currently undergo treatment for my complex and relational post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD, a type of anxiety disorder that develops from repeated traumatic experiences), I wanted to write about my life, and everything it entails: my experiences, my traumas, my thoughts as I go through EMDR (eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing). I want to develop a better understand of myself and my disorder as I learn about myself again in therapy, almost as a form of catharsis if you will.

However, this is not a story for the light-hearted. I will be very explicit about my traumatic experiences, as explicit as I can be as I believe it will help me the most to overcome the struggles I have developed through these. This therefore serves as my trigger warning for my traumatic experiences (emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and sexual assault) and my forms of escapism (self-harm, drinking, and drugs). I will provide trigger warnings before each chapter, though, as you may benefit or be interested in other chapters in which I provide my thoughts on different things.

Here we dive into myself, a life which is truly: a work in progress.