by Heidi Fischer | Jun 15, 2022 | Complex PTSD Healing, Depression, Emotional Wellness, Guest Contributor
This post was originally published on The Mighty. Congratulations on starting your dream job, for making a new friend, or for finally perfecting home-baked bread! You are amazing! Yes, cheers are in order! After all… You do feel happy…*shifty eyes*…*ominous...
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 Rebekah Brown | Apr 20, 2022 | Abandonment and CPTSD, ACEs, Attachment Trauma, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD and Narcissistic Abuse, Depression, Guest Contributor, Trauma
My mother died this morning. I knew the time was near but didn’t quite believe it would actually happen. She had lived for so long and did so much damage—I had grown accustomed to her shadow. I thought she would live forever. Institutionalized for over twenty-five...
by Shane Bouel | Feb 23, 2022 | Anxiety, CPTSD, CPTSD and Adoption, CPTSD and PTSD, Depression, Emotional Wellness, PTSD
Pro-life A foetus has rights! Adoption A child in a contract they never signed! What is being said here is that you as life, have rights, but only under the conditions that are dictated. Adoptees can categorically state that living the life of adoption is extremely...
by Mari Stewart | Nov 30, 2021 | CPTSD, Depression, Emotional Flashbacks, Holiday Stress, Holidays
You’ve seen it most likely. A meme makes the rounds every year, starting about now-ish. That question floats around the internet about the movie that most represents your family Christmas. People usually don’t understand why I pick “The Lion in Winter.” That is the...
by Wendy Hoke | Apr 30, 2021 | CPTSD and Parenting, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Depression, Dissociation and CPTSD, Family Estrangement, Guest Contributor
Greatest myth of all time: “Children are resilient.” Wrong. Children are fragile. They break easily. My maternal grandfather broke me. I was 7 or 8 when the sexual abuse began. The psychic damage was extensive. I am now 58, and I am proof that having competent doctors...