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It's been years since some of the most important people in my family passed away. For years, I was fine operated normally, nothing really seemed to register as a problem. But now all of a sudden, it feels like my brain is cracking from all sides. I'm overthinking things to an absurd degree, my brain is no longer able to process basic emotions properly, and all I do is get flashbacks to my past. For a long time I supressed my feelings with copious amounts of alcohol, and now that I'm fully sober, my brain is going absolutely insane. But why would my brain do this to me after so many years? Would it not make more sense it would have snapped way earlier on?

It's been years since some of the most important people in my family passed away. For years, I was fine operated normally, nothing really seemed to register as a problem. But now all of a sudden, it feels like my brain is cracking from all sides. I'm overthinking things to an absurd degree, my brain is no longer able to process basic emotions properly, and all I do is get flashbacks to my past. For a long time I supressed my feelings with copious amounts of alcohol, and now that I'm fully sober, my brain is going absolutely insane. But why would my brain do this to me after so many years? Would it not make more sense it would have snapped way earlier on?

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It can take time for you (subconsciously) to find it within yourself to process strong emotion.

I don't know that this PTSD stuff is real, I know that there is stress while you process, and that the processing is required, or you stagnate. If you think its real, and that gives you some measure of hope, or comfort, then please hold to that view. I am just a bit too jaded from a life that is replete with loss.

It took me a while to learn that. I still haven't been able to say I've fully processed the thoughts and feelings behind all of the memories, and know that I still catch myself processing "what if"s.

I wouldn't refer to that as a disorder, I'd see it as a normal process for the human condition.