by Rebekah Brown | Mar 19, 2021 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, CPTSD and PTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Emotional Flashbacks, Polyvagal Theory and CPTSD, Symptoms of CPTSD, The Brain and CPTSD
Blackbird Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. I covered my ears at the deafening sound of the shotgun blast. My father discharged another volley into the...
by Gemma Jones | Mar 17, 2021 | CPTSD Survivor Stories, Guest Contributor
The Dreaded DSM and CPSTD According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) when I describe my symptoms, it advises doctors, psychologists that I would most likely have borderline personality disorder sometimes Bipolar previously known as...
by Shirley Davis | Mar 15, 2021 | CPTSD and Self-Harm
***Trigger Warning: This article will contain self-harm information and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** This series has focused on different types of self-harm, its causes, and a description of those who practice it. In this piece, we continue our open and...
by Sherry Yuan Hunter | Mar 12, 2021 | CPTSD and Parenting, Guest Contributor
Parenting and Perfectionism Strict parenting is based on the avoidance of risks and the assumption that normal human nature needs to be fixed. Strict parents teach their children to behave ‘correctly’ so they can exist in society without suffering....
by Cassie Sands | Mar 11, 2021 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Family Estrangement, Grief, Guest Contributor
I started writing as a way to process and talk about exceedingly difficult things I knew I needed to discuss in therapy but was unable to even begin to make sense of myself. For such a long time, I wasn’t able in any way to discuss much more than I had been...
by Danielle Renee Murphy | Mar 10, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories
For this, my premiere blog post through CPTSD Foundation, I thought I might take a moment to introduce myself as a clinician, expressive therapist, and writer in that order. The reality is I eat, sleep, and breathe my job as a Family-Based Therapist at Scranton...
by Shirley Davis | Mar 8, 2021 | CPTSD, Suicide Prevention
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article will tackle active and passive suicide and may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. In our first article about self-harm, we tackled the subject with as much kindness as the topic would allow. Self-harm is a sensitive subject...
by Gemma Jones | Mar 3, 2021 | CPTSD Poetry, Guest Contributor
The Willow Tree The windswept the hair from my eyes One tear streaming down my cheek I always seem to have goodbyes Every year every month every week They fill my head with their lies When I cry, they turn the other cheek When I feel this lonely my Willow tree,...
by Shirley Davis | Mar 1, 2021 | CPTSD and Self-Harm
***Trigger Warning This article contains information that may upset sensitive readers. The following article is about self-harming and should not be read by those who find this subject disturbing.*** Harming oneself is an all-too-common symptom of a larger mental...
by Tsuhai Nzinga | Feb 26, 2021 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD and Inner Child Work, Guest Contributor
It’s hard to fathom the levels of manipulation I’ve been subject to. As I walk this journey, I’ve learned that I must grieve the things I’ve lost. Tonight I realized that one of the things I lost was my mother. She didn’t die, but she wasn’t there growing up. I spent...
