by Shirley Davis | May 9, 2022 | CPTSD, Trauma, Treatment
Keep in mind that May is Mental Health Awareness Month a time to examine oneself and learn all you can about mental health and how it affects everyone. Stress. What human beings living in this wild and crazy world today don’t experience it. Yet, people who live with...
by Pamela Say | May 9, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Recovery, Self-Acceptance
Imagine for a moment you were adopted at a young age by loving parents. They were honest with you. Your biological parents existed out there in the world somewhere. When you looked up at the stars you wondered if they stood under the same expansive sky. Later in life...
by Heidi Fischer | May 5, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Depression, Guest Contributor, The Brain and CPTSD, Treatment, Treatment for CPTSD
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or rTMS for short, has been around for quite a while. It is a mental health treatment that was developed in 1985. It hasn’t entered into mainstream practice in a lot of places just yet, but it is gaining popularity. Up...
by Maxine Beecroft | May 4, 2022 | 12 Step Programs, CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
When used in conjunction with other treatments like therapy and/or medication, 12-Step programs can be a useful part of C-PTSD recovery. The 12-Steps are taught at group meetings and run in a program format known as a 12-Step program. The 12-Step working model states...
by Lee Frost | May 3, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
Ever have one of those moments when a breakthrough hits you so hard that you’re absolutely stunned that you never saw it before? I was only diagnosed with CPTSD last year, so this has been happening a lot. The connection that shook me hard pointed to a core...
by Shirley Davis | May 2, 2022 | CPTSD, Emotional Wellness
Everyone experiences stress at one point or another in their lives. Perhaps you face a new boss at work or a medical problem of your own, or a family member. Countless incidents cause stress. Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) deals primarily with trauma...
