An effect of trauma

Homelessness or housing instability

Homelessness and housing instability are often what trauma produces. The addiction that cost you your home. The relationship you had to flee. The system that failed to catch you. The poverty that was never really about choices. Not having a safe place to land is its own trauma, and it is also frequently the result of other traumas compounding over time. If you have lost housing, lived in your car, couch surfed, or never really had a stable home, this belongs to you.

It can sound like

“I am homeless or have been.” “I keep losing my housing.” “I have been living in my car or couch surfing.” “I grew up without stable housing.” “I left and had nowhere to go.”

If any of those sentences live in your head too, you are in good company here.

Experiences this often follows

Effects do not come from nowhere. These are some of the experiences that people who carry this one often describe. You do not need to have been through any of them for what you feel to be real.

Nothing on this page is a diagnosis, and nothing here decides what is wrong with you, because nothing is wrong with you. Something happened to you. This page exists so that when you are ready, you can find people who understand it from the inside.

You do not have to carry this alone.

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