Me and My Complex-PTSD

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My brain chose the ostrich approach to deal with my childhood sexual abuse

There hasn’t been much discussion about it, but a vast swath of 1950’s society was affected by trauma. The adult generation had spent their teens in a years long economic depression before war radically disrupted any concept of normal living. Later, tens of thousands of traumatized military personnel returned home. They were followed shortly after…