Actually, it's not as obscure and mind waffling as you think it is. And sometimes, it's important that a person struggling be able to take TIME to sit and write things out and that can end up with posts that are long. I find that when that happens where a person is trying to share as much as possible what they are challenged with, they tend to appologize. I always think that is sad and it tells me that this individual did not experience a presence in their life that they could talk to and experience some guidance from. Often this means that when they did experience a problem they did not know what to do about and tried to talk about it, they probably ended up being told "hurry up, have not got time to listen, just do this and be quiet, you gotta pay attention, I am too busy to deal with YOUR little problems". Oh that list can most definitely be added onto.

saidso, human beings are all designed to "navigate", and so are most living things. When you are writing things out, and at the same time trying to overcome and understand the ptsd symptoms that are challenging you, what you are doing is reviewing all the things you have had to figure out how to navigate through in your past. No matter what a person's environment happens to be, the one thing everyone has in common is they have to learn HOW to navigate whatever is in that environment and develop certain skills to survive and thrive in whatever that environment happens to be.

So, if someone happens to be a street sweeper and built a life around that, and something bad happened that completely disrupted what this man did and built his life around? This man CAN end up struggling with ptsd. And this man will have his own history and way that he learned to navigate HIS life and how he became this street sweeper and learned how to not only do it well, but also use what he earned to sustain himself, and possibly even his family too. If this man suffers from something that really disrupts his way of life, he can have a very hard time figuring out how to regain his sense of balance and safety in his life. He would present with a whole story of his life and how he ended up finding this way to thrive and how much it meant to him in so many ways. If he is told his story and what he values is NOT important is that going to actually be fair to him? If he sits across from someone who cannot see the value in what he did and does, is he supposed to be encouraged to feel shame for needing help so he can find a way to recover his way of life? If he sits across from someone who NEVER had to survive and actually sweep the streets and learn how to navigate all the things that present challenges in doing that street sweeping, how is that person going to be able to RESPECT this man's challenge? This man will surely want that kind of presence, he will feel so lonely and broken and LONG FOR and WISH for a presence that CAN understand his brokeness and help him recover and feel safe again. Does he not deserve that? Does this man deserve a presence that decides what he values should not be important and that because he values it so much that he is GRANDIOSE and has DELUSIONS OF GRANDURE? Does this man not deserve to have pride in what he does and how he manages to thrive as a street sweeper?

If a street sweeper loses something important, he will experience emotional challenges. We are, after all, for the most part, emotional beings. I have not lived your life or had to learn how to navigate the same world you had to navigate. Yet, I can understand the battle you are descibing being challenged with. I have these long winded and obscure mind searching and mind waffling battles myself. I have myself collapsed from having my world completely fall apart and being overwhelmed by it. I have had others react to me in some very dismissive unhelpful ways as well. I have experienced therapists that decided that what I lost should not be important simply because it was not important to them personally. YET, the bottom line isn't about THEIR opinion about what is or isn't important to them, but instead recognizing the significance of the challenge itself and how someone needs help to slowly pick up the shattered pieces of their life where they can regain a sense of being able to navigate their life again despite having so much lost in whatever was lost to that person in whatever world/environment that person had to learn how to navigate in. This is what Martin Luther King was saying in that quote. He was talking about developing a respect for others no matter what their color or class standing in life. To develop the ability to respect that other individual as another human being who is trying to navigate his/her life around whatever environment he is trying to navigate and thrive in. I am not living in your world, and yet the challenges you have been sharing that often cause you to feel confused and mentally disorganized, I can relate to that challenge and understand what you mean when you write out your thoughts thinking you are not making sense. I know that so well myself and often things you say DO make sense to me and resonate with me.