Your heart races. Your chest tightens. Your breath quickens. Your memories and dreams flash back to an event or even multiple events that you would just as soon forget. The terror wells up inside your throat and threatens to consume you. You scream out, but there is no one to help you. No one understands what you are going through.
This is what many people feel like nearly every day of their lives. They are overwrought with stress, fear, paranoia, anxiety, and more. Their entire system is hijacked by the symptoms and the pain of the trauma that they have endured. The loved ones around you simply can’t grasp the depth at which you feel the pain and the agony. Some might go so far as to accuse you of faking it.
Some people have been able to get away from their trauma, while still others are living their daily trauma over and over. They are bound to their abuser through trauma bonding. Or they are stuck in a hopeless situation for other reasons. They become so deeply rooted in their relationship or their situation that there seems to be no way out of it.
People don’t think about how negative experiences can cause our bodies to go haywire. They think the diagnosis of PTSD is only reserved for people like disabled veterans returning from a deployment. These soldiers are exposed to long term fear of bombs and guns taking their lives. In some homes and marriages, an abused person lives this fear in many of the same ways. They fear their survival.
A trauma survivor experiences their needs being stripped away before their eyes, similar to that of a prisoner of war. They are denied love and a sense of belonging. They are told to beg for things, and they experience all of their things being taken away from them. Their freedom is an illusion. They feel suffocated and lonely.

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