u/Gross-Things

I told my therapist recently that I don’t think I have any anchors.

Not because nobody exists in my life, but because everyone around me is carrying their own weight too. My sister has her own trauma and responsibilities. My spouse loves me deeply but can’t emotionally carry the details of my trauma processing or writing. My therapist is away for a while.

So I’m realizing I’ve been trying to process some very heavy things mostly alone.

I write a lot. Some of it is memoir-style. Some of it is trauma processing. Some of it is me trying to understand why certain memories or cases or experiences attached themselves to me so permanently.

I think I’m looking less for “advice” and more for signs that other people have survived periods where they felt emotionally unanchored.

How did you build community when you were already exhausted? How did you learn to distribute emotional weight instead of carrying it all internally? How did you figure out who to trust with what?

I don’t need fixing. I think I just need human voices.

I told my therapist recently that I don’t think I have any anchors.

Not because nobody exists in my life, but because everyone around me is carrying their own weight too. My sister has her own trauma and responsibilities. My spouse loves me deeply but can’t emotionally carry the details of my trauma processing or writing. My therapist is away for a while.

So I’m realizing I’ve been trying to process some very heavy things mostly alone.

I write a lot. Some of it is memoir-style. Some of it is trauma processing. Some of it is me trying to understand why certain memories or cases or experiences attached themselves to me so permanently.

I think I’m looking less for “advice” and more for signs that other people have survived periods where they felt emotionally unanchored.

How did you build community when you were already exhausted? How did you learn to distribute emotional weight instead of carrying it all internally? How did you figure out who to trust with what?

I don’t need fixing. I think I just need human voices.

I told my therapist recently that I don’t think I have any anchors.

Not because nobody exists in my life, but because everyone around me is carrying their own weight too. My sister has her own trauma and responsibilities. My spouse loves me deeply but can’t emotionally carry the details of my trauma processing or writing. My therapist is away for a while.

So I’m realizing I’ve been trying to process some very heavy things mostly alone.

I write a lot. Some of it is memoir-style. Some of it is trauma processing. Some of it is me trying to understand why certain memories or cases or experiences attached themselves to me so permanently.

I think I’m looking less for “advice” and more for signs that other people have survived periods where they felt emotionally unanchored.

How did you build community when you were already exhausted? How did you learn to distribute emotional weight instead of carrying it all internally? How did you figure out who to trust with what?

I don’t need fixing. I think I just need human voices.