 i was wondering if anyone else deals with this, where you could have solid factual information, but regardless people try to tell you that you’re wrong, THEN they get other people to join in on invalidating you so it really feels like YOU are the one who is wrong— when according to concrete reality WE DO KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT. Also, when we call out that we are being gaslighted, we get told we are exaggerating and that that doesn’t qualify as gaslighting. Telling us that our reality is not true (real) and then getting reinforcement to back their conjecture up results in us feeling crazy and does indeed make us distrust, or be paranoid about our own ability to perceive reality. It’s one thing to go into a space that you know that people already have a concrete opinion on a subject, and nothing you say could really sway them anyways. Going into a space (or speaking to someone) where you THOUGHT that you would be not only taken seriously, but that what you have to share would be appreciated and helpful—- then having everything thrown in you face and being made out to be over dramatic, stupid, uninformed, ignorant, and delusional—- is genuinely triggering. THEN when you do end up being proven right, it gets ignored, discounted, or disregarded. Worse is when something bad happened because nobody believed you.
  Does anyone else get nightmares where they have no voice? Sorry for venting but as someone who has mostly recovered, sure I know I shouldn’t care and I WISH that I didn’t, but my CPTSD which is a common bpd co morbidity is at a maximum right now &amp; If I feel this way, i know some of yall out there are going through this too.

Much love to you guys, and again I apologize for the incoherent babble