Poppy Noor: Before we start this interview, I should tell you I also have a complex PTSD diagnosis. In her new book, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, she grapples with the aftermath of her diagnosis and tries to provide a roadmap to help others heal. She was miserable for a long time, but didn’t know why. She was prone to outbursts and over-reliant on validation, especially at work. The abuse settled into her psyche, making it hard for her to accept love from anyone. She had become accustomed to rushing through the details of her abuse, as if reading from a grocery list: she was physically abused as a child regularly told she was stupid, unwanted, ugly and fat exposed to deathly car trips during which her father told her he was going to kill them both and was abandoned by both parents as a teenager, left with no money to survive on frozen meals. Complex PTSD was supposed to be worse: while PTSD is generally caused by singular traumatic events, complex PTSD survivors have usually been exposed to trauma repeatedly, sometimes over years, making it hard to isolate triggers and move past them.įoo had somehow relegated her own trauma to the back drawers of her mind.
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