I’ve never been able to do it.

When I’m relaxed, I’m hardly aware of my surroundings and when I’m alert, I’m nervous as hell.

How the hell do people keep their composure in difficult situations and still get through them alright?

  • Prathas@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    Did a certain event happen in your childhood? If it was hundreds and hundreds of criticisms every month for decades like I experienced, then that’s not PTSD, which is a single, life-changing event, but rather CPTSD (Complex), which is a gradual embedding of continual stress reaction over a long period of time.