by Martha Fernandez | Oct 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A lighter workload has never once treated a depressive episode. It makes one more survivable while it continues, which is genuinely worth having and is not the same thing, and confusing the two costs people years of their lives. This comes up constantly with survivors...
by Martha Fernandez | Oct 15, 2026 | Attachment Trauma, CPTSD, Healing from Toxic Shame, Mental Health Professional
She had not asked anyone for anything in eleven years. She did not arrive with that figure. I asked the question, and she worked it out in the room, moving backward through two moves, a job change, and one hospital stay, until she found a date. Then she said, with no...
