c-ptsd

Gary King is known as “The Happiness Guy” in St. Petersburg, Florida. After a life of compounding distress and deep depression, Gary put up signs with the word ‘Happiness’ as part of a social experiment, to lift the mood of the city, as well as his own. Seven months and eighty-one signs later, he’s become a local hero.

Healing developmental trauma is this all consuming maze that I'm walking through, where nobody has a map for, because no healing maze is the same. People can offer insights into their own experiences, they can offer me a look at my map from where they're sitting, but no-one (except myself) can tell me exactly which roads to go down to heal.