Family Estrangement: Going No Contact
Part One
People with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) or living in other distress usually come from dysfunctional homes. These survivors have endured many traumas perpetrated by their family members, and after reaching adulthood, many of these grown children choose to have little to no contact with their family of origin.
This piece will introduce a new series on going no contact with its pros and cons, plus its consequences.
What is Meant by Going No Contact
Going no contact means severing relations with your family members to end the emotional, psychological, and physical suffering the survivor has endured. For most, going no contact means having no communication or interaction with the toxic family.
Sometimes adult survivors choose to cut off only part of their family, meaning they might choose to go no contact with a parent but not with their siblings.
Other survivors who have gone no contact choose to do so until an ultimatum is met. Still, others choose to permanently sever their relations with their family with the intent of never looking back or even dreaming of reuniting because of the freedom they find in doing so.
There are many reasons survivors with or without CPTSD choose to go no contact with…
