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doubledaybooks · 8 months

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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara is the book everyone is crying about.

#a little life #hanya yanagihara #a little life book #trauma books #bookish #reading #now reading #books that make you cry

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traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors · 7 months

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what kind of books on cptsd would you recommend?

Hi there,

Here are some books the mods recommend:

The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel Van Der Kolk (PDF linked)

It Didn't Start With You - Mark Wolynn

The Pain We Carry - Natalie Y. Gutierrez

What Happened to You - Oprah Winfrey

Here is a list of some more trauma-related books

Take care!

#trauma talks #ptsd books #cptsd books #trauma books #mod misa #books #reading

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furiousgoldfish · 1 year

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Could you recommend some books about trauma?

Yeah! One of the first one I read was 'Toxic Parents' by Susan Foward. Then there's 'Why does he do that', by Lundy Bancroft, which explains in detail the intentions behind specific acts of violence and abusers 'losing control', it's a great breakdown of all violent and abusive behaviour. Understanding the abusers intentions helped me to get out of self doubt and self-blame.

On trauma specifically, Pete Walker's 'Complex PTSD' is a great guide to recognize and deal with symptoms such as emotional flashbacks, catastrophizing, self hatred, aftermath of neglect. It moved me forward a lot with my own recovery.

Recent one I read was 'I'm glad my mom died' by Jennette McCurdy, it offers an inside perspective of how it is to live with an abusive mother who enmeshes and parentifies a child, and the painful aftermath of living with the consequences. It also teaches a lot about eating disorders and how they feel from the inside perspective.

If anyone reading this knows of more helpful books, add them in the comments!

#trauma books #book recs #i know lots of people recommend Body keeps the score #but i couldn't read that one #the author said some things that were so disgusting i had to close it and never look back #so i cant recommend that

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manifxsting · 2 years

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My Dark Book List

- girl interrupted

- girl in pieces

- valley of the dolls

- the virgin suicides

- flowers in the attic

- lolita (sally horner)

- lolita original

- pillow thoughts (poetry)

- her by pierre (poetry)

- PENELOPE DOUGLAS DEVILS NIGHT SERIES

- sweetest oblivion

- letting ana go

- go ask alice

if any of you guys have any recs please don’t mind commenting suggestions like these books <3

#bookworld #book list #dark poetry #dark romance #mafiaromance #ed book #tw ana related #trauma books #heavy #the virgin suicides #lolitta #lolitia #girl interrupted #girl in pieces #flowers in the attic

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mxxnlightsblog · 8 months

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It's crazy how trauma makes you push people away when all you want is love.

#quoteoftheday #life quotes #loveyourself #inspirational quotes #literature #wordsofwisdom #book quotes #trauma #wordstoliveby #spilled words #motivational quotes #relatable quotes #quotes

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saltair-and-palemoonlight · 3 months

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Will I always be alone in this house? Reading books that are too hard for me in the long fatherless hours?

let your dad die energy drink - daniel lavery and cecilia corrigan/bob’s burgers, 2011/family line - conan gray/@parentless-suggestions/promises of gold - jose olivarez/unknown/dna - lia marie johnson/i am angry because of my father - halsey/part of me never left that house - mada hayyas/unknown/father - demi lovato/franz kafta/unknown/primer - aaron smith/family line - conan gray/untitled - frank wright

***sorry for all of the unknowns on this one. I really do try to find the sources for everything but I kept coming up empty w these. If you know the sources pls comment/send me an ask or dm and lmk!!

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peakvincent · 2 years

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new game is to type one through ten in your tags and see what comes up. i think my favorite of mine is ‘my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once’ but ‘gideon the ninth motherfucker’ is a close second

#one is that bad laptops can still handle custom content #two stupid old men who i lovehate :(#goddamn it i wish the three funniest women alive would tell me what i just saw #the f in rpf stands for fourth wall #ten pounds of trauma in a five pound bag #me and alice will both read it and i think that brings you up to like six!!!#my uncle told us he spent seven and a half hours in a sensory deprivation tank once #goal was one book per store and we ended up with six stores and eight books which actually i think is fine #gideon the ninth motherfucker #thinking about the ten inexplicable minutes where jay and i were very in on brandon saad/roberto luongo #*

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ye-olde-trojan-horse · 10 months

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remus was james’s gay awakening (he’s the casanova of gryffindor tower, so duh)

sirius was james’s gay ‘confirmation’ (they kissed once, and james knew he wasn’t straight)

then james said hmmmm I want a combination of both, and ended up with regulus.

#he said give me looks and trauma of sirius #but sarcasm and book vibe of remus #smoosh them together #and wow I AM SO GAY #it’s love your honour #love story #jegulus #starchaser #regulus black #james potter #remus lupin #sirius black #marauders headcannons

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ivynightshade · 10 months

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fatima aamer bilal, from all that is damaging.

[text id: there’s always a home. the one you’re running to or the one you’re running from.]

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oflights · 4 months

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i have been laughing about this to myself all day

#im glad i crack myself up at least #i know we mine voldemort in the manor for angst and rightfully so #but there’s so much potential surreal humor in it too #like yes trauma but we have to laugh #hp meta #(???)#hp shitposting #the context of this was laughing about the religious holidays that exist in these books for no explained reason

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luxthestrange · 5 months

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TWST Incorrect quotes#659 BOOYAH!AHAHA!

What IM SURE...will happen after Idia's OB, After the Masquerade event...and Towards Book 7...

-P.E Class-

Idia*Still Feeling Sore from having to climb all of Noble Bell's stairs and putting ice packs on his legs* I don't know about you, but I'm getting all funned out of these adventures...

Yuu*Sees off into a distance the sky becoming cloudy with green thunder and lighting* Uh-oh...

Idia*On the grass, Eyes closed* Don't tell me, We're about to have Malleus overblot...

Yuu: Yep.

Idia: Sharp giant thorns all over NRC?

Yuu: Most likely.

Idia*Taking a deep breath and opening his eyes* Bring it on.

Reaching the ears of everyone in NRC....they heard someone ...giving an excited war cry?... That sounded oddly like Idia

Idia: Boo-yah! Whoo!

#disney twst #twisted wonderland x reader #twisted wonderland x yuu #twst #twst yuu #twst book 6 #twst book 7 #idia shroud #idia shroud x reader #idia shroud x yuu #twst masquerade #malleus draconia #twst overblot #overblot malleus #this mama is ready for trauma #twst incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes

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doubledaybooks · 8 months

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The New York Times bestselling classic by Hanya Yanagihara

#a little life #hanya yanagihara #classic books #a little life book #trauma books #bookish #reading #now reading

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traumasurvivorshelpingsurvivors · 6 months

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Hey, I am planning on reading some books about trauma (thanks for the recs, though I wasn't the one who asked) but learning about trauma is often triggering to me. In a very special way, it feels different than my "more often occuring" triggers. It feels more like being taken back to the time when that happened. I often, because I forgot a lot of my past, also remember things again. Or I see myself in trauma reactions and get in a bad mood because everything on me seems to be a trauma reaction tbh.

How can I make reading such books safe and comfortable for me? Or is it overall a bad idea?

hey anon,

It can definitely be difficult to know when you're ready, and for what. Some amount of being triggered can be tolerated and contribute to the lessening of the trigger, but if you push yourself, you risk recession.

It sounds like learning about trauma is triggering you to the point of flashback and resurfacing memories. Honestly, without more info and time, it's hard to be sure whether you should take a break from learning about this, or if this is one of the big bumps you have to get through in order to further your healing. Everyone's journey looks different.

The main things are: are you in a safe place to process things? Can you make room for this at this point in your life? Do you feel it is inevitable and that you will have to process it one way or another? If your life is somewhat stable, it might be time to expose yourself to things that trigger you. It might be time to remember. This will ultimately be up to you, as you know your situation and mental state best.

Here, here, and here are some articles regarding trauma processing and when to do so.

Here are some links to help you cope:

Grounding

Coping with flashbacks

Coping with triggers

Take care.

Mod Misa

#trauma talks #mod misa #trauma books #books #reading

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brungeons-and-bragons · 9 months

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Me starting GTN after hearing about it from a friend: NEEEEEEED the bone lesbians to kiss

Me finishing NTN: love is all around me and god needs to die.

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andthebeanstalk · 9 months

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Me: hm, I want something to put on the TV as background noise... Huh. Looks like YouTube is recommending something called The Last Unicorn. That's perfect, it's probably some old shitty animation that has aged poorly! I can watch it ironically!

Me, 2 hours later as the credits roll: *crying, cheering, buying the book, composing the songs*

Me, 2 weeks later: So I have compiled all of the quotes from the book that I think could make good tattoos, and also, HOW HAVE I NEVER LEARNED ABOUT HOW THE LAST UNICORN FUCKING SLAPS??? This gay-ass little fairytale fed my soul! Watered my crops! Transed my gender! Can't believe I heard of this story from youtube recommendations, of all places!!

#original #the last unicorn #tlu #peter s beagle #molly gru #schmendrick #schmendrick the magician #two of my favorite characters in anything right there in the center of the story! and I'm glad I saw the film first!#my reading ability has diminished due to trauma disability etc. but it seems like having a visual reference actually really helped!#no wonder i only ever want to read fan fic! turns out reading is not actually Superior to other types of Storytelling. it's just different.#to say otherwise is snobbishness I have been eminently guilty of in my life!#but like it is easier for me to consume tv and movies and that is fine actually. also that's why I'm doing a graphic novel lol #because i wanted to make something i would actually be able to read if i found it at a library. altho the audio book IS gonna be bomb #the audiobook is for visually impaired readers and anyone who wants or needs it! accessible stories for everyone! yeah!!#my gender was already transed but now I've gained an ADDITIONAL gender! which one? I'll never tell 😘#i am so powerful i have so much fuckin gender. my wife has no gender. and she is equally as powerful.#and also she has STUDIED THE BLADE #mostly zoro's blades from One Piece #normally YouTube recommends me shit movies like idiocracy or smth this is like if every day ur cat brought you a piece of rotten food and #then one day it brings you a BEAUTIFULLY ANIMATED TALE FEATURING MY BELOVED TWINK FUCK-UP WIZARD FRIEND AND MY ALL-TIME HOMEGIRL MOLLY GRU #and also it's soft and beautiful and funny and fucking weird!! i wrote melodies to the songs in the books on my ukulele

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im-a-freaking-joy · 24 days

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CALLING ALL EXMORMONS/PIMOS

i have a proposition- lets all write the nastiest, most unhinged, atrocious mormon themed smut that we possibly can. It was honestly weirdly healing for me to read wild ass smut on ao3 that was themed around the religion and not the musical, and i want it to become such a popular trend for exmos and pimos to start doing that they have to start vagueing about it in general conference. It doesnt have to be good. It just needs to *be.*

Once im done writing my Ammon×Lamoni smut fic I'm absolutely reblogging this post with the link added, please join me in this unhinged rebellion

#look those two always had something homoerotic going on alright #even before i knew what homoeroticism was #just like. the inherent dom sub dynamics of willingly and happily listening to everything the king says?#asking for more duties just so you can spend time around him?#fighting an entire rampaging group of men intent on harming your b̶o̶y̶f̶r̶i̶e̶n̶d̶s̶ I mean king's sheep?#cutting off said enemies arms to show him how devoted you are?#and on lamoni's side--#giving up your kingdom for your “best friend” so he can be safe??#protecting him from anyone who disagrees with you and thinks he shouldnt be here?#the tldr of this i guess is that if joe smith wrote smut instead of the book of mormon and making it into a cult i would have less trauma #exmo #exmormon #ex lds #ex mormon #pimo #calling all exmos

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