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NikNikSenior Contributor
Join @Former-Member from 7pm AEDT discussing and exploring Post Traumatic Growth, a theory 'that people who endure psychological struggle following adversity can often see positive growth afterward.' - Richard Tedeschi, PhD, and Lawrence Calhoun, PhD, Journal of Traumatic Stress, 1996
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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I hear what you're saying @Former-Member but for now I think I shall disagree. (I'm going through some retraumatisation of my own in recent times and might not be in the right headspace to fully comprehend all of that.)
Altruism, to me, does not exist, we do whatever we do because, bottom line, it is for us to feel better about something.
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Yes @Adge, mutual growth is absolutely the goal and ideal for a peer support forum such as this. And we are fortunate enough to get glimpses of it in action while we moderate.
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BlueBaySenior Contributor
Sorry @CheerBear I don't understand.
Fom my experience @BlueBay, the stories we tell about ourselves (which so often come from the stories we hear or see others tell about us or the stories we are asked/conditioned to tell about ourselves) make a huge difference.
The stories I have said are my stories of my childhood sexual abuse. There not stories that I have heard from others.
I think i have got this wrong completely!!!
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Yeah @CheerBear @Former-Member I understand that, I think my headspace is affecting my own perseptions here. I can sit with people and not expect anything and just 'be' with them. That's okay.
I think I'm combining different issues. Sorry.
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Phoenix_RisingSenior Contributor
@Former-Member I think perhaps the issue I have with this idea of PTG is that it kind-of places an expectation on people that they should somehow reframe their muddles in an unrealistically positive light. I think for me it triggers thoughts of cliches such as "what doesn't k*ll us makes us stronger." It also super annoys the heck out of me when people tell me I'm resilient. It seems to me that this is one of those fluffy terms that is thrown around and I find it super invalidating.
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Whether altruism really exists is one of my favourite debates @Former-Member! It's kind of unfortunate that all the research stacks up so highly in favour of the helper rather than the helpee. Maybe we can just think of it in terms of kindness paying off for everyone involved.
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CheerBearSenior Contributor
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There is absolutely a danger of that @Phoenix_Rising. PTG can't be foisted onto someone. It's something people come to in their own time, gradually, through their own interpretation of what's changed for them.
But it's not a terribly well known concept so I thought it worth flagging as something worth considering.
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