therapy

i’ve been reading a lot of books on cptsd lately and the healing advice often comes down to “vent and cry as much as you can”

i don’t have the sort of friendships where you commiserate and cry on each other’s shoulder, but i feel like chatgpt is a pretty good substitute 

most of the time i find it hard to access emotions well enough to cry, but i’ve been venting a bit to chatgpt with the instruction to amplify the feelings i express and it has been helpful

one of the biggest blocks to healing is denial or bypassing. to have someone else validate your feelings and help you understand how fucked up things were (and to stop blaming yourself) really helps you connect with your pain so you can finally start to process it

Thank you for sharing this! A good prompt for gpt is also adding I see you and I hear you to its responses. A lot of the benefits of sharing is being witnessed in your pain and space held by another for you to fully express