Category: cptsd & trauma recovery
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Navigating Life’s Challenges: My Journey with Writing
Today I’d like to write a bit of an update and to reassure everyone that I’m not gone. Diary of a Flopping Fish is still moving along, thought it is going quite slowly. As I have written about before, it if very hard to balance other obligations and expectations while still have enough left in…
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How CPTSD Survivors Can Protect Their Dreams From Other People’s Expectations
CPTSD, boundaries, and breaking free from control.
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Navigating CPTSD: Impact on Daily Lives and New Living Situations
New homes, old triggers: How CPTSD survivors navigate the challenges of moving, from hypervigilance to food trauma in shared living spaces.
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Coping With Moving Anxiety and CPTSD: Why Change Feels So Hard
Moving is hard, but if you suffer from anxiety or CPTSD it can be even more taxing. How do you cope with moving and managing mental chaos?
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Speaking Truth in Toxic Families and Breaking The Cycle of Abuse
Often our abusers keep us under their thumbs, not by action, but by the threat of action. When those abusers are ingrained as a part of a larger system, such as work or family, it makes it even harder to speak out against them or against the system.
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Dysfunctional Family Dynamics: When “Blood Is Thicker Than Water” Hurts
For many of us, the subject of family is a loaded one. I’m sure I’m not the only one whose blood family is large and diverse, and not everyone in a large family gets along. It’s fine not to get along with everyone, but it is dangerous to think you still have to associate with…
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Setting Boundaries: Why It Feels Wrong—And Why It’s Crucial for Healing
The difficulty of setting boundaries goes beyond the need to please others. It affects people from all walks of life, including those in addiction recovery, those re-entering society after incarceration, and survivors of toxic relationships.
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From Struggle to High Honors: Reflections on My Journey to an Associate’s Degree with CPTSD
How I went from burnout and CPTSD to graduating college online with high honors — and what I learned along the way.
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Holiday Stress: Unpopular opinions and preparing for the new year
I hate to be a drag, and I know that it’s supposed to be a cheery time, but honestly it is stressful and sad. As we all do, I try to hold on to the good things about the holidays and let them make up for all the bad.
Diary of a Flopping Fish 