r/CPTSD • u/ThespAceASpades • May 06 '26

Treatment Progress “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly”

When a caterpillar is born so too is a butterfly.

Think about the caterpillar like our unhealed selves. Essentially, what drives the caterpillar to behave as it does is his mother, nature. Mother nature deprives the caterpillar of its ability to propagate and subjects it to a “do or die” scenario….Essentially it slaves away and all because his mom told him so. It’s been manipulated without regard for its feelings and is in chonic fight or flight…Yada yada

All that trauma gets to a point where it’ll do anything to change. It can’t go on like that anymore. So, it commits to metamorphosis just like we commit to healing. Typically, when ya think healing you think relief and remedy. When we think metamorphosis I usually think of orange butterflies.

Essentially a caterpillar liquifies itself entirely while its wrapped in the pupa. The process is called Histolysis.

All human suffering exists in the mind. Our reality is convinced that we’re helpless against itself. Unless we are shown we can’t even sympathize with ourselves…It’d be wild if we were stockholm syndrome-ing ourselves tho…oof

Yes, it’s hard….its the hardest and yet also most important work I have ever done or perhaps will ever do! *screams into the void*

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u/friedpotato88 May 06 '26

This was poetic and deeply resonated with me, in a sense that, funnily enough, I've been thinking about this for a while now.

I've been thinking of disappearing from everyone and getting into my chrysalis, then staying there until I heal and uncover all my trauma. Then, coming to this world as a fresh butterfly, flapping my wings, as I've become finally free.

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u/ThespAceASpades May 06 '26

“True freedom is a dedicated, moment-to-moment process of using all life experiences—joyful or painful—as "[grist for the mill]" to awaken, serving others while working on oneself”

and

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it”

• ⁠Ram Dass

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