Kelsey Waghorn

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 18 Jun

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How Do You Cope? · Kelsey Waghorn: 'There’s nothing quite like someone telling you, "you are normal"' · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

And it's just like, these really like unbearable,

unrealistic sort of reactions to things.

And it's just like this huge,

yeah overreaction to pretty much everything so like your sadness is just like absolute deep grief um your anger is full-on rage um I didn't realize but I dissociated a lot which I just thought I was just exhausted or tired um or having these sort of like depressive days it was like no that was full-on dissociation where it was like I couldn't feel anything or I

Yeah, I just couldn't feel anything.

And it was just, I didn't realize that that's what that was.

So I didn't really know what was going on sort of at a core level other than it was part of PTSD.

And so even though I had a diagnosis in the sense that I knew that that's what that was,

I didn't understand it, which made it really hard as well because it wasn't until I sort of had what my nervous system was doing properly, fully broken down and described to me that it was like, oh, okay, well, that actually makes sense.

I don't like it, but it makes sense.

And it's sort of taking that confusion and unknown out of it sort of helps kind of lessen the hurt of it.

And you have a little bit more empathy for yourself and you sort of know what's going on at a sort of

my friend and I call it lizard level.

So like, it was like very primitive brain, which was just trying to very desperately to keep you alive.

That lizard part of you is just very much trying to just keep you alive.

And it's like, my brain learned that after the boat fire, after the fall, after the eruption, after hospital, it was like, you got to fight like hell every time something goes wrong because that gets you through.

And so my brain had rewired itself.

And so it was like, anytime anything went,

mildly off course in my brain it just went into full scale fight mode and then I would take a long time to sort of like calm down and then I would sort of really drop out of fight and to dissociate and then very slowly sort of come back and then try to sort of like describe that to someone

who also doesn't understand what's going on with you there's just so much confusion and unknowing which is really hard as well because it's like I didn't know really what was going on people around me didn't really know what was going on and there was just like this huge massive confusion which

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