Hi, I’m Ness and I’m a survivor of Complex PTSD.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” ―Thomas Edison
This quote speaks to me deeply. Life is hard enough — but when you add complex trauma into the mix, it can feel like an endless cycle of setbacks and struggle.
For most of my life, I tried to live what I thought was a “normal” life, but I constantly felt like I was falling short. Like I just couldn’t get it right.
Growing up, I always felt like the outsider. Like I didn’t belong. I felt different.
And now I understand that so much of what I was going through was Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder — the result of early childhood trauma.
Even after years of healing and growth, that feeling of being different never fully went away.
If you met me today, you might not see the person I used to be — because I learned how to hide that part of me. I masked it, thinking it wasn’t welcome.
But I’m done hiding.
I want to step outside my comfort zone and share my story. Not for attention, but for connection. Because if there’s one thing I know, it’s that no survivor of Complex PTSD should ever have to feel alone. We’ve already carried so much — the confusion, the shame, the silence.
We deserve to feel seen. To feel understood. To know we’re not broken — just deeply impacted by things we didn’t choose.
I dream of a world where C-PTSD survivors feel safe enough to be fully themselves — without fear, without shame, and without having to shrink who they are.
Until that world exists, I’ll keep sharing my journey in the hope that it helps another survivor feel less alone, more understood, and more at home in themselves.
With love,
Ness
Traversing Trauma 