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El_Sabate wrote

I spent most of 2010 deployed to Afghanistan. I was single, a member of what I now recognize as being an abusive religious cult, and profoundly broken, suffering from profound PTSD and depression...which led to

A faith crisis, an ideology/political crisis, and to have to question everything I'd ever been taught or thought I understood. I passed through just about every kind of crisis you could think of, come out of it so much better off. I am still kinda broken, still suffer from PTSD and depression, but I'm free of all of the ideological and religious blinders that oppressed me and all those around me.

In this decade I've gotten married, adopted 4 kids and had one of my own, moved across the country to a state I'd never been to, where I knew no one, and dragged my family with me. I've gone from faithful mormon to devout atheist. I've gone from guy who grew up very conservative but kinda liked Bernie to a full blown insurrectionary anarchist.

It's been a hell of a decade.

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celebratedrecluse wrote

Do you consider writing creatively? Memoir might be a way that helps you isolate the traumatic memories on paper, making them less heavy to deal with in physical reality. At least, that is how I have approached my own untreated PTSD

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El_Sabate wrote

That's a good idea, I'll try it out and see if it helps. Thanks!

I'm hesitant to use something like Google Drive, even though that's the easiest. Any recommendations on other programs/software to use for this that can be stored in the cloud for access from multiple computers/locations?

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celebratedrecluse wrote

riseup.net has a documents service. It is plaintext format, so not as ergonomic as google drive, and it's publicly held on the internet without an account attached to it so you'd have to keep the link secret, and it'll delete after 365 days if you don't edit it at all in that time. However, it works, if you're just concerned about a plaintext

You can also upload here, under a burner account, or on this one. You can furthermore send yourself private messages on this burner account, and if you want you can later delete the DMs. That's what I would do, in a pinch. Then you just need to remember your login info, and you can access your writing wherever with nice Postmill formatting tools to use for paragraph breaks, italics, etc.

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