by Dr. Mozelle Martin | May 5, 2026 | Borderline Personality Disorder, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A bad idea does not need a big platform anymore. It just needs to sound clean, emotionally satisfying, and vaguely righteous. That is how nonsense travels now. Somebody with no training says, “There is no such thing as a personality disorder. It is all trauma,” and...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Some people spend years trying to explain a wound that began before they had words. That is one of the hardest parts of very early trauma. If the injury happens at the beginning, people often assume it should not count. They assume that if you cannot consciously...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 23, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Parentification is usually described as a childhood role reversal. A child becomes the emotional caretaker, mediator, problem-solver, or stabilizer in a home where adults are inconsistent, overwhelmed, impaired, or absent. In clinical language, it is a distortion of...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
In my first mental health job in the early 1990s, I learned a rule that still holds under pressure. Never tell an upset client to “calm down.” It backfires. The person does not feel heard, seen, or validated. They feel managed. The phrase sounds helpful to the one...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 7, 2026 | Brain Chemistry, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
People don’t become controlling because they enjoy it. They become controlling because trauma taught them that unpredictability is dangerous. When life blindsides you enough times, your nervous system starts operating like a private security detail—monitoring,...
