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“ Sometimes the boxes we’re put in fit. Other times, we find ourselves shoved into places too confining for our growing sense of self. ”

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Depression affects almost 80% of migraine sufferers at one time or another. People with migraine, especially chronic migraine, also are more likely to experience intense anxiety and to have suicidal tendencies. If we want to live happy and joyful lives with migraine, it is vital that we acknowledge and deal with the emotional realities of the disease.

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Sometimes falling apart is the bravest act of all

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Sarah Hackley Falling Apart Healing Loss Pain Surviving

I had built such a wall between my experiences and how I felt about those experiences that I was incapable of reliving both simultaneously. I could talk about my traumas, even walk through them, but I couldn’t feel them. When I tried to bring it all together, when I tried to remember how I had felt, I disappeared in my own head. My to-do list took on grave importance. The book I read the night before filled my thoughts. Yesterday’s article suddenly called out to be rewritten. I couldn’t get inside myself.

~ Sarah Hackley

Sarah Hackley Healing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Ptsd Trauma Traumatic Experiences

Dissociation can enable us to withstand pain and loss under which we would otherwise break. It enables us to survive and pull through. But, a habit of continual dissociation – especially after the trauma has passed – leads to the shut-in feeling I was experiencing. While I imagined I was being strong in the face of pain, in reality, I was merely hiding.

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Sarah Hackley Dissociation Healing The Emotional Self Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Ptsd Survival Trauma