littlepup
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I disagree as sometimes you can’t process and move on. It’s like PTSD, you can have treatment but you won’t be ‘cured’. You may never accept what you felt or what you lost. I can’t speak to other people but I just know it’s not that easy.I don't want to down play birth trauma but what birth isn't traumatic?! I am not trying to set women's rights back or anything lord knows I've had 2 kids myself but there comes a point where you have to process what happens and move on right?
However. Ashley has had multiple people explain to her the reality of her situation but refuses to accept it. She’s not saying ‘I understand the reality but I can’t process it. My feelings don’t change by knowing I wasn’t actually going to die, I still felt like that in the moment and it traumatised me’. Instead she continues to believe her own version of events, rewriting history while, as far as we know, not getting any therapy. It’s always a blame game, always someone’s fault.
My personal thoughts are that her regret and resentment at Alf became “birth trauma” in her mind so she had an excuse for her feelings. She couldn’t allow herself to accept that her feelings toward Alf were not caused by anyone else so she looked for something to blame and it became his birth. The reason I think this is because of the time line of when the birth trauma claims appeared.