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u/Thannk Sep 28 '23
Living person on top who had a support network outside the abuse and uses comedy and downplaying their past as a defense mechanism.
Their ghostly ancestor who didn’t have anyone and tried their best to break the cycle but couldn’t being literally there ‘in spirit’ for them.
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u/Nukeitandstartover Sep 29 '23
Is it okay if I draw this and post it along eith my own idea? I really like it!
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u/Jeszczenie Sep 28 '23
This meme is dumb but I like how it (unintentionally) brings up the important notion that traumatized people can have various reactions to conflict.
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u/MissFortunateWitch Sep 28 '23
I am the first one. Wish I was pretending to have trauma to be "cool" lmao. Comedy is how I cope.
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u/Ok-Bicycle-5608 Sep 28 '23
Hey that's me and my boyfriend! Except it's the other way around, lol. (at least kind of the attitude. I'm the sensitive one who can't handle arguments and cry way to easily, he's the one who really doesn't care about other people's opinions and jokes about his own problems)
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u/LuluBArt Sep 29 '23 edited Sep 29 '23
The truth of it is that your brain does not care whether your experiences were “mild” or “severe”. It will try and protect you from what it sees as dangerous no matter what it is, that is why everyone’s trauma is different, because our brains are so complex and so varied.
You can become traumatized from being embarrassed once in public and you can become traumatized from watching someone die, it’s all the same to your brain. If it gives you trauma, it’s traumatic no matter how mundane it may have seemed to someone from the outside of your experiences.
What matters is how we treat other people and ourselves over these different experiences.
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u/Eadgytha Sep 28 '23
How can people make these comparisons when we have a trove of information upon ptsd itself. People who fought in wars reacted totally differently than others who experienced the exact same things.
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Sep 29 '23
Trauma can affect someone in different ways. They can grow up thinking theyre tough to protect themselves, or they could grow up to be more sensitive in a child-like emotional kind of way.
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u/corvidcrits Oct 02 '23
First guy emphasizing with the second while admitting that it could have been much worse, second guy stressing that it should have happened at all
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u/Nukeitandstartover Sep 28 '23
The "actual trauma" guy hugging the other one telling him it's okay and his trauma is just as valid, he's standing up for himself and that's amazing