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The Polarity of PTSD
This was a drawing I did the late fall of my junior year of college. I found I was having a lot of mood swings, not just then, but since I had ‘remembered’. I would alternate a lot between a deep sadness and a fiery anger. But the feelings themselves seemed to transcend those words.…
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A Piece of prose about living with ptsd in your early 20’s: “I’ve Never Been to Iceland”
Context Hey guys! Bit of a depressing prose I wrote last night but I wanted to share (trigger warning for mention of sexual assault). For a really long time I’ve wondered how to capture what life with PTSD is like, more specifically, how it feels to navigate in your 20s. Spoiler alert: it’s kind of…
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Always Almost: A Poem On Hypervigilance
“Always Almost”, a poem I wrote recently about how I feel since developing PTSD. One thing I’ve experienced is an uptick in anxiety over all after 2020. It’s like now I’m always waiting for the next catastrophe to happen, to the point that I have these fears based in nothing that can deeply impact my…
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A Splash of Self
“A Splash of Self” circa September 2020 I remember that moment quite well actually, I think down to the register I was at. It’s weird how much has changed in the last three years. It was also quite strange reading this back and knowing the things I do now, because today I was holding that…
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Bird Bites: A Candid Exhibition of Transference with childhood trauma
Bird Bites: A Candid Exhibition of Transference with Childhood Trauma The *real* video starts around the 2:35 minute mark. I know this is choppy and awkward, but it also felt like a really important moment to share just because it perfectly captures some of the conversations I’ve had in therapy over the past few years…
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June is PTSD Awareness month
Did you know June is PTSD Awareness month? Swipe to learn a little bit more about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Anger as an echo
The Drawing Explained I tend to shy away from talking about anger because it’s almost always accompanied by some layer of guilt: You don’t have it bad enough…get over it…it’s your fault you feel this way… The list goes on, sigh. But I don’t think anger itself is bad—it’s one of our core emotions. What…
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Drawings I did in therapy while processing recovered memories
Caption Drawings I did while processing recovered memories (sorry to everyone coming here from @a.c.brooke: you may see some reposts of reels, trying to get all Paper Birds related stuff in one place. I feel like this short video really embodies how that fall felt.
Project Paper Birds 