(I'm sorry for this)
Da bu dee da bu da
IM BLUE, OIEKLKMMM M
My gut feeling is the previous therapist(s) said something along the lines of "It's not you, it's me."
This is a real thing a whole lot.
A favorite one is the biographical detail that excites the therapist. As in I'm too tired to wrestle with my real personal demons and core trauma, so today I'll regail you with more sexy-times adventures spanking people to get laid. To which my intern therapist bounces eagerly like a puppy ready for walkies.
The least favorite is the intern freaking out about childhood sexual assault thirty years ago and calling the authorities. Dude, the perp is dead, no one cared in that era and you just invited guys with guns to investigate my family. Your psychology career is off to a great start.
Nothing's more damaging to trust than opening up to someone about something fucked up that happened a decade or so ago that you've moved on from, only for them to comically overreact and start acting like this is something that desperately needs to addressed here and now.
lmao 59 slides... jikes
I'm sorry but their trauma is having a somewhat normal but worrying birth and then not feeling special from being a twin? Yeah no wonder they thought they were special enough to make a PowerPoint about themselves.
First off, that's only a fraction of the PowerPoint, and she might have made those slides to not reveal personal info to the internet. Hell, this could just be a joke with dozens of empty slides below the visible ones. However, the person almost certainly still has trauma. I've met a ton of people who cope through comedy, and a lot of them would laugh at this meme.
More importantly, gatekeeping trauma is not ok. Someone having a more traumatic life than you does not invalidate your own trauma. You could have trauma from common experiences, like parents divorcing or the death of a loved one, and it can affect you in serious ways. Many people never seek the help they need for their trauma because they invalidate their experiences. Someone always has it worse, so if trauma is making it hard to live your best life, don't feel guilty about seeking help for it.
Exactly. "That's not trauma, stop whining" doesn't help anyone and you have no fucking idea how it affects someone. "Suck it up" is such fucking boomer bullshit
Slide 1 of 59.
It's camouflage for someone who can't open up, where all the pages are jokes and fluff except for the bottom right corner of page 37
Perfect for the 1 hour session, with 1 minute for Q&A (the question better be quick).
Or it is more complex than that. She was born blue, this led to her mother being overbearingly careful with her and her dad just assumed she must be damaged - just one possible thing that comes to mind. The quality is bad and I cannot read more than the titles but what I mean is that titling a slide is probably not the whole story to it. God knows what she has to tell.
Oh I absolutely thought about her being born blue being more of a statement of her family's reaction since she never stopped hearing about it likely, so to tell that story means it was in someone's mind a lot.
It just sounds very self aggrandizing to call a power point "My Trauma" and then have a slide that says
I am a Gemini (I know sorry) I didn't even get my own toys growing up
It's probably a joke but I know people that are like this and would make me sit through a presentation on why they are so unique and I can't stand it.
Have you considered that they might be doing jokes?
Its not what caused the trauma but the susceptibility to the trauma. Most people dealing with mental health issues are neurodivergent. And yet another co-diagnosis is being LGBTQIA+ 🤠
i had to get a new therapist after three years when i finally got comfortable with my old one right as i was recovering from ffs and gcs and about a month before i went into the hospital with severe dehydration. let me tell you going to therapy every two weeks with someone i don't know and piling all of that on them it's a miracle they didn't run away
I mean it's kind of their job, right?
I'm thinking this might be a brilliant idea. It's probably way better than the stacks of files from previous therapists that say BAH-ha-hah this dude is so psycho!
(Just past a fifty year anni of there's something wrong with / odd about that boy in first grade)
