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ptsd-phoenix:

Reminder to me that it’s absolutely ridiculous to accuse myself of faking because that would mean I am purposefully and intentionally counterfeiting something. What I experience is not orchestrated by me. My symptoms are not picked out beforehand and executed as a performance. I am not trying to persuade anyone. I am living my life experiencing symptoms of my mental illness. Telling myself I am faking is based on absolutely no grounds and is just a manifestation of my fear to be perceived as fake.

ptsd-phoenix:

Shout out to those who have been traumatized by their own psychotic symptoms.

Shout out to those who have been traumatized by someone else’s psychotic symptoms.

Psychosis can absolutely be a traumatizing experience for anyone involved. The person experiencing psychosis is not to blame for their psychotic symptoms, but it’s absolutely okay to recognize that you can be traumatized by their symptoms. It’s also really valid to have trauma from your own psychotic symptoms. You’re not immune to it because you happen to be the one with the disorder.

It’s important to not put blame on psychotic people for this. (unless of course actual abusive behavior has taken place separate from the psychosis, people who experience psychosis are as equally capable of abuse as any other human being is capable. This means you are not more likely to be abused by psychotic people, but they are also not immune to being potential abusers, just like the entire world population isn’t immune to being abusive)

Think of how people can be traumatized by natural disasters, there isn’t always someone to blame for trauma. Sometimes something traumatic just happens out of anyone’s control.

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