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When Loved Ones Expect You to Return to Who You Were Before Trauma

My family keeps asking when I will be normal again and I do not know how to tell them that person might not exist anymore

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Others' attachment to pre-trauma identity creates pressure to perform a version of self that trauma has fundamentally altered.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with PTSD and trauma?”

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