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Difficulty Handling Joy

My personal experience with PTSD triggers

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K P
May 14, 2026
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Trigger warning: discussion of PTSD and triggers

I read a sentence about two months ago that said something along the lines of this: “PTSD doesn’t make it difficult to handle the tragic things, it makes it difficult to handle the joyful ones.”

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