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Talking through trauma and PTSD

Tillogram

Tillogram

I am wondering if anyone has any strategies that have helped them to banish the “Not Good Enough” thoughts.

It is apparently a common problem for those with childhood trauma (likely other things as well).

I think I try pretty hard to surmount this feeling. I have completed university degrees, I have worked pretty much continuously from age 14yo. I try to participate in sport and different other activities. I volunteer.

Maybe “doing things” is not the correct strategy (although it does act as a distraction).

I still think I am not good enough.

@tyme @Jynx @Appleblossom @Shaz51 @Dimity

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Yes, I hope my roof leak is fixed, because it's very worrying. Even though I can collect the water in buckets, I worry what's happening inside the roof and what it's wrecking up there.

If it's OK to ask @NightFury which state are you in? Somehow I thought you were NSW.

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@Till23 it's okay to ask. I'm in Tasmania.

Yeah, the damp and the impact that it has on the structure of your roof would be worrying and it's a much bigger job to fix.

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Last year I went to Tasmania @NightFury to a big sport competition near Hobart. I loved it there, I did a little bit of travel there after the event. It's a lovely place to live, well apart from the cold!

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@Till23 it's beautiful here and even the cold days are beautiful when the sun comes out and the sky is crisp and clear. I missed it when I lived in QLD.

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Hi @tyme I'm not sure if you are on or were only dropping in

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@Till23 ,

@tyme is just dropping in

She starts again in a couple of days

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I hired a campervan for a few days @NightFury and travelled down to the most southern point of Australia and then up to Bicheno, with a trip to Maria Island and Freycinet National Park on the way. I was working at the time, so couldn't take as long as I would have liked. I'd love to go back one day.

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OK thanks @Shaz51

How are you going? Do you have rain up there yet?

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No rain today @Till23 , just cloudy

We hired a camper trailer and travelled around Tasmania years ago , it was great

Hubby like to go back and see cradle Mountain again @NightFury ,

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@Shaz51 Cradle Mountain is beautiful. I've only been once. But it's beautiful, especially when it snows.

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