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The Hidden Cost of Survival: How Trauma Becomes a Financial Burden for Care Survivors

Trigger Warning: Mentions of trauma, abuse, and systemic neglect.Written from lived experience. The Price of Healing For children who grow up in state care, the trauma doesn’t end when the placement ends. The system’s failures echo through adulthood — in … Continue reading

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When Trauma Meets Bureaucracy: Living with CPTSD in a System That Doesn’t Understand It

There is something uniquely exhausting about living with Complex PTSD, not just the symptoms themselves, but the constant negotiation with systems that don’t understand them. The very institutions that claim to protect and support people with disabilities or trauma-related conditions, … Continue reading

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