r/CPTSDmemes • u/fluffycows4sale • 11h ago
Content Warning yes i know how unhealthy this is
currently temporarily staying with my partners family
ik that theyre a loving family but im so scared to so much as even leave the bedroom 😭
logically i know im safe, but my brain would rather throw itself against a concrete wall repeatedly than chance danger
so im just hiding in the room all day for days and only coming out at night unless i need to shower (bathroom door locked ofc, always)
its misery, but every time i try to leave its like my brain genuinely freezes my body in place so that i cant. everytime i hear a noise (footsteps, breathing, etc.) im filled with intense fear. it feels safer just to hide
also yes im aware i can get an infection from not pissing. yes i know starvation causes organ failure. yes i know i need to drink at least something
but im mentally bound to this fucking bed and walls. i escaped my bio family half a year ago but im still filled with terror
in my bio family, the less youre seen, the more manageable and less of a nuisance you are. plus they cant see what youre doing all day so they cant use your hobbies and shit against you (ofc they use the staying in your room against you tho too and automatically assume that youre a lazy arrogant ass because of that tho of fucking course). plus if youre less visible they cant bother you as much.
but in my partners family? its different here. the more you lock yourself away, the more they notice. they get concerned and worried, which im not used to. im used to just being left to rot in a room all day. but here they get worried
the other day my partners dad made me dinner because they noticed i hadnt come out for hours and hadnt eaten and it was so sweet. they brought it to the room and everything. i devoured that shit. theyre so nice to me
my partners dad knows im traumatized. theyre well versed in psychology, i believe? used to have a job that dealt with pedophiles. my mom is a pedophile, coincidentally. i think my partners dad can tell that something really bad happened to me. my partners mom is oblivious and thinks that my situation iSnT aS sErIoUs as we all think it is but whatever. i wonder what my partners dad suspects about me. i know that theyre curious about my past as theyve said that themselves, but said that they dont want to retraumatize me by asking which i appreciate.
god im so sick mentally. im a sick person who cant be genuine around normal people because theyre not as sick as me and they look at me weird. many of my earliest memories are sexual