Dear noname:

“Looking at where that pattern started was certainly my childhood… I have grown accustomed to  being in crisis.. my traumatized brain is always in fight or flight mode”- makes me think of the Complex PTSD diagnosis (is it still a suggested diagnosis, or has it been accepted and now an official diagnosis?)-

– did you ever consider basing your healing process on this CPTSD diagnosis, (which I am sure fits you, me and so many, many other people)?

(When I attended my first quality psychotherapy in 2011, my therapist came up with a diagnosis for me and used it as a starting point, having planned at least the beginning of therapy with me based on this diagnosis).

anita