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Jul 10, 2020Liked by Elizabeth Bear

Truth, every word. For me, therapy is the work of cleaning out infected psychological wounds so they can heal -- it will hurt while you're doing it, but you'll feel much better for having done it. I'm also scarred -- the wounding happened, therapy doesn't take that away -- but I'm no longer contorting myself to keep the wounds from being touched. (Fwiw, I have c-PTSD and depression.)

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Jul 11, 2020Liked by Elizabeth Bear

I can't thank you enough for writing this post for my own efforts at going through therapy and having a diagnosis of CPTSD myself. Thank you for helping us out here.

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Jul 10, 2020Liked by Elizabeth Bear

You're such a mensch for writing this very personal post. Thanks: it is very clarifying and helpful to me.

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