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video summary: According to the video, it is about complex PTSD (CPTSD) and how it can affect your self-esteem. The speaker, Heidi Priebe, explains that CPTSD is a type of trauma that develops from repeated or prolonged traumatic experiences in early life. She says that people with CPTSD often develop negative beliefs about themselves, such as the belief that they are bad or broken. The video outlines 10 lessons that people with CPTSD may have missed in childhood: 1)The neurotic behaviors and emotional regulation strategies you developed are not character defects, but trauma responses. 2) The average secure person intuitively knows that it is difficult to concentrate when you are disregulated. 3)The mistake you make is mistaking your traumatic responses for your core self. 4)A lot of the time when you are procrastinating, you are spending the appropriate amount of time responding to really intense and overwhelming feelings. 5)When you judge yourself harshly for making mistakes, you are reenacting the way you were treated in childhood. 6)People who are healing from complex PTSD learn that mistakes will happen throughout their lives. 7) It is important to surround yourself with healthy people who can support you through your mistakes. 8)Hope often comes from a change in circumstances. 9) You can act your way into a better inner world. 10) The world outside of your mind is a much better place to exist than the world inside of your mind. Priebe says that healing from complex PTSD is a long process, but it is possible to learn to see yourself in a more positive light and develop healthy relationships. (I asked for more detials on each point and gemini.ai gave me this:) According to the video, here are details on each point and how to do it: The first lesson is that the neurotic behavior and emotional regulation strategies are not character defects but trauma responses. People with complex PTSD may struggle with things like eating disorders, substance abuse, social difficulties, and obsessive thought patterns. These are all normal responses to a set of abnormal circumstances. The second lesson is that the average secure person intuitively knows that it is almost impossible to concentrate when you are disregulated. When you are in a fight, flight, freeze or fawn response, your body is pumping blood to the areas of your brain that are designed to help you escape danger and stay alive. These are not the parts of your brain that help you to focus deeply on details or on abstract thinking. The third lesson is that you cannot trust your feelings. People who grew up with complex PTSD may learn to suppress their feelings in order to avoid negative consequences. This can make it difficult to get in touch with your true self and what matters to you. The fourth lesson is that your triggers are not your core authentic self. Triggers are responses that you developed as a normal reaction to the circumstances you were in. They are not the same thing as your true self. The fifth lesson is that a lot of times when you are procrastinating, you are actually spending the appropriate amount of time responding to really intense and overwhelming feelings. People with complex PTSD may spend a lot of time trying to get themselves out of a state of shame. This can make it difficult to be productive. The sixth lesson is that if you struggle socially, it probably isn't because you're just flawed and broken. It might be because there are social skills you genuinely missed learning about early on in life. The seventh lesson is that good people do bad things. The degree to which we recover from those bad things and learn how to behave in a more pro-social way is often in direct proportion to how much love and guidance we receive. The eighth lesson is that relationships are not supposed to be the things that we pull ourselves back from when we are struggling. They are the very resource that is going to help us out of that struggle. The ninth lesson is that hope often comes about from a change in circumstances and that we can actually act our way into a better inner world. People with complex PTSD may have learned helplessness. As adults, they can learn that they have more agency than they did as children. The tenth lesson is that the world outside of our minds is actually a much better place to exist than the world inside of our minds. The world outside of our minds is a world that is real and that can offer us meaning in ways that our fantasy world could never properly give us.


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77hr0waway

I hate being insecure and around insecure people. this comment scared me because i don't want the OP to see it and think I'm tyring to one up him 😓


SirCheeseAlot

You are good. I appreciate you doing that for every one. :)


SirCheeseAlot

Also are you paying for that ai or is it free? If it’s free how does it know about such a new video, or did you get it to watch it somehow?


77hr0waway

free, just sign up. good point, I had to ask it numerous times before it complied but i just put summarize and then the youtube link


SirCheeseAlot

Thank you. That’s useful.


77hr0waway

omg sorry, i didn't tell you the name. It's https://gemini.google.com/app


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77hr0waway

gemini. sometimes it will say it can't either but then I keep asking or refresh and it works lol good luck :)


PertinaciousFox

If the video has a transcript, sending it that might work. But probably most videos don't have accessible transcripts.


77hr0waway

https://gemini.google.com/app


Sparkleterrier

I really appreciate both the video and the summary!


dbt1115

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the text summary! You are my hero.


JustinVanderYacht

Thank you. I’m almost angry about how much i needed this, haha.


SirCheeseAlot

Yeah this is a good one. The time spent trying to do paperwork resonated especially.


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77hr0waway

I just commented it :)


Intrepid_Ad3062

I agree… her videos are way too fucking long and I find something about her very triggering. Let me see if I c a get a summary…


77hr0waway

I got it.. (look up)


Unusual_Government42

I just coincidentally watched this last night. It’s amazing. I don’t think a video had made me feel better than this ever


ChairDangerous5276

I LOVE HEIDI! She’s the best at breaking down CPTSD patterns and making them feel normal instead of pathological, so thanks for posting this.