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Plot Twist: Your ‘Difficult’ Personality Is Complex PTSD

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Cody Taymore
Jul 07, 2025
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Close-up portrait of a woman with a weary, tear-streaked face, staring directly at the camera — capturing the raw emotional weight of trauma, grief, or burnout.

When being “too much” is actually trauma trying to keep you alive

They called me difficult. Intense. Too sensitive. Too angry. Too much.

For thirty years, I collected these labels like battle scars, believing something was fundamentally wrong with my wiring. I was the guy who felt everything at eleven. The one who couldn’t just “let things go.” The one wh…

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