by Shirley Davis | Oct 28, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Symptoms of CPTSD
In this series, we have concentrated on the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and highlighted how each one changes lives. This article will focus on the final six symptoms: Feeling different from other people Feeling ashamed Feeling guilty...
by Verity Wolfe | Oct 24, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, CPTSD Survivor Stories
I’m a forty-two-year-old woman, haunted by mental illness for as long as I can remember, and yet it’s only within the last two years that Complex PTSD has become known to me. No one in the mental health profession has ever uttered the words to me. The only...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 21, 2019 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Symptoms of CPTSD
Recently we have been discussing the twenty-four most common symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). We’ve discovered in pieces one and two in this series how people living with the aftereffects of severe repeated trauma often experience sleep...
by Raffaela Milner | Oct 17, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, Dissociation and CPTSD, Treatment for CPTSD
In this article, we will talk about one of the most common symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder – dissociation. We will explore different methods and tools that help us to reconnect with our body in the long term. Since one of those tools is...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 14, 2019 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Symptoms of CPTSD
Previously, we began looking at the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). We learned together how life-altering the symptoms of this enigmatic disorder are to the everyday lives of those who live with them. Today we are going to survey more of...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 7, 2019 | ACEs, CPTSD Research
The ACEs Study In the early 1990s, a physician named Vincent Felitti who worked for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego asked a patient who had lost a great deal of weight in a weight loss program why they had dropped out. The answer given stunned Dr. Felitti. That person...
by Shirley Davis | Oct 3, 2019 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Treatment for CPTSD, What is CPTSD
To understand the treatments for complex post-traumatic stress disorder, it is helpful to understand the interaction between neuroplasticity and mindfulness. What is Neuroplasticity? Until the 1960s, mental health professionals and researchers believed that once we...
by Shirley Davis | Sep 30, 2019 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Symptoms of CPTSD, What is CPTSD
There can be no doubt that the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder are life-altering and debilitating. In this article, we begin a series outlining the symptoms of CPTSD a few at a time to help bring understanding that the world is correct, complex...
by Shirley Davis | Sep 23, 2019 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, What is CPTSD
Talk Therapy. When people visualize talk therapy, they usually conjure thoughts of a therapist sitting in a chair beside their client who is reclining on a couch beside them. While lying down and speaking to a therapist is not disallowed, it usually isn’t what...
by Shirley Davis | Sep 16, 2019 | CPTSD, CPTSD Research, Trauma-Informed, What is CPTSD
Today CPTSD is recognized as needing long-term treatment because of the damages done to a person’s self-identity, deficits in self-regulation and their inability to see there is hope and healing available to them. Fear and hopelessness can be a daily reality for most...
