"Holiday Blues" or Sever Childhood Trauma?

The amount of people who truly believe that children under the age of 2 have no cognitive memories, always forget the outliers. Like myself, we are the ones who remember. We remember what happened, we have flashes like a movie clip that can be triggered by many different things. The fact is, I remember a lot. I have the uncanny ability to survive the memories, the pain, the loss, the disregulation that so many are crippled by. Maybe because I am a system with many who hold the memories piece by piece, maybe my brain split far younger than I thought, who knows. What I do know is that the triggers around this time of year are so bad that I often get to the point of harming myself, and taking drastic risks I wouldn't at any other time of the year. I am never sure if I will survive the Hollidays and this year is no exception. As I struggle to fight who I am, what I experienced and the depression, anxiety, PTSD triggers, fear, seasonal triggers and so much more daily. When peopl...