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It's national PTSD awareness day, or I guess the whole month is as of 2014? Which is a coincidence lol

Anyways, here's my PTSD venting art dedicated to the occasion. This is my character Skye, who when I make my comic one day, is doomed to go through very similar traumatic events and is my way of expressing my own feelings.

I don't really like to talk a lot about my PTSD or symptoms, because frankly, even though I've suspected I've had it, I never wanted to accept it fully and was only recently officially diagnosed. It's invasive, it's embarrassing, I can't control triggers or emotions, if someone else triggers me I panic because I don't want them to feel bad, some people don't even believe me, it's too much and too many things. It's a large part of why I want to have a service dog.

I'd love to say I want to spread awareness and tell my story, but those that know it already know why I don't want to. So instead I recommend researching on your own, and learning to be accepting and patient to those of us who suffer from PTSD.

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It's national PTSD awareness day, or I guess the whole month is as of 2014? Which is a coincidence lol

Anyways, here's my PTSD venting art dedicated to the occasion. This is my character Skye, who when I make my comic one day, is doomed to go through very similar traumatic events and is my way of expressing my own feelings.

I don't really like to talk a lot about my PTSD or symptoms, because frankly, even though I've suspected I've had it, I never wanted to accept it fully and was only recently officially diagnosed. It's invasive, it's embarrassing, I can't control triggers or emotions, if someone else triggers me I panic because I don't want them to feel bad, some people don't even believe me, it's too much and too many things. It's a large part of why I want to have a service dog.

I'd love to say I want to spread awareness and tell my story, but those that know it already know why I don't want to. So instead I recommend researching on your own, and learning to be accepting and patient to those of us who suffer from PTSD.