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Originally Posted by Ad Intra
Disclaimer: I don't have PTSD, but I come on this section a lot because I have trauma concerns .
1. I don't feel like any of it happened. I feel like when I tell someone about the abuse I'm lying. Sometimes I just feel like I read it in a book.
2. If my trauma was real, then it's not valid. Sometimes I feel like my trauma isn't valid because I was never in a war
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I felt very similar. That's why I lived in denial for most of my life. I wasn't in war, I was a child abuse victim. I kept telling myself "that's not what that was." But the thing is, all that matters is how you feel. You are the number one authority on your personal experience. Nobody else. No one can invalidate your feelings because they can't be invalidated. Honor your feelings, you'll get there.