I am absurdly happy I haven’t made a habit of posting the exercises I’ve been writing for this C280k workshop. Today and the rest of week 5 are focusing on trauma. We can elect to skip these exercises, create a fictional trauma to write about, or dive in and write about our own.

While I’m not opposed to sharing what I’m writing – because this is the ultimate of anonymity – I’m not in the right mindset to handle anything that might come after. Multiple studies done (that Tim referenced) have proven that this practice worsens the effects of trauma immediately afterward, only to showcase improvement over time. 

So in time, I will be okay to post them should I ever feel like it. Right now, though? I should probably complete the exercise and then disappear off social media entirely for the rest of the day. Social media exacerbates depressive thoughts, it’s not healthy for me to feed into that cycle when I’m already knowingly experiencing a low.