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• "It Wasn't That Bad": Why C-PTSD Makes You Minimize Your Own Trauma Their site

  Argues that minimising is a learned rule rather than an accurate measurement, and carries a real citation for the claim underneath it (Swedo et al., MMWR, 2023, n=264,882). Cited writing is rarer in this corner of the internet than it should be.

  Matthew Sexton, LCSW · Jul 24, 2026

• Trauma Bonding: Why You Can't Just Leave Their site

  Opens by conceding the thing most writing on coercive relationships skips: people who stay are usually not short of information. They have read the threads and recognised the pattern already. Starting there, rather than at the explanation, is why this one is worth the click.

  Matthew Sexton, LCSW · Jun 3, 2026

• Burnout or Depression? How to Actually Tell the Difference Their site

  Gives you one usable distinction instead of a symptom checklist: burnout is domain-specific, depression is pervasive. Whether the low follows you out of work is a question you can answer about yourself tonight, which is more than most pieces on this leave you with.

  Matthew Sexton, LCSW · Jun 3, 2026

• High-Functioning Anxiety: When Competence Is the Symptom Their site

  For people who would never call themselves anxious, because anxious people fall apart and they never have. Takes the reliability and the output seriously as evidence before reframing them, which is the only way this argument lands on the people it is about.

  Matthew Sexton, LCSW · Jun 3, 2026