The Daily Churn 🗞️ Ep 89 - The Paper Round
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Nov 14, 2025 The host reflects on childhood experiences delivering newspapers that shaped lifelong habits. They connect early morning anxiety to trauma, revealing insights from a recent ketamine therapy intake. Exploring complex PTSD, they discuss emotional neglect and how it influenced their ADHD traits and coping strategies. The conversation weaves through themes of work as an escape, social overwhelm from moving countries, and the importance of therapy in the healing journey. It's a raw and insightful look at how past stressors impact present life.
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Early Paper Round That Shaped Work Ethic
- At 11 I delivered newspapers at 5am every day in dark, cold, and dangerous conditions and eventually became a marker earning double pay.
- That early work taught me money's value and pushed me to channel emotions into productivity rather than process them.
Work As An Emotional Escape
- The paper round taught me to equate work with safety and comfort, so I habitually used work to avoid feelings.
- That coping strategy became a lifelong default rewarded by promotions and money, accelerating the habit.
Complex PTSD Is A Thousand Paper Cuts
- Complex PTSD can come from prolonged childhood neglect rather than single dramatic events and shows up as emotional flashbacks.
- These flashbacks trigger stress responses not grounded in the present but rooted in repeated early-life threats.
