by Erin R. Burke | Mar 30, 2022 | CPTSD, Feeling Good Enough, Guest Contributor, Self-Acceptance
Guess what! I’m mentally ill! Somehow, after 66 years of living and 30 years of therapy, I had no idea. It turns out that I suffer from an avalanche of disorders. I’m good with the PTSD diagnosis; those years of flashbacks don’t lie. I have SAD without a doubt;...
by Ramon Diaz | Mar 29, 2022 | Brain Chemistry, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Many of my patients share stories where they have suffered years and years of trauma, abuse, and emotional neglect. The courage to share their stories is incredible. What some people have gone through is indescribable. I am often reacting the same way when I hear...
by Kelly Palmer | Mar 22, 2022 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Pain
On bad days, I don’t know where the anxiety stops and the chronic pain begins. The tightening in my chest could be a warning of a panic attack or of a fibromyalgia flare that will spread across my chest, down my arms, and into my hands, rendering me unable to write —...
by Lee Frost | Mar 17, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Pain
As I sit here with several benign tumors that are causing constant pain, I realize how chronic medical problems have followed me throughout life. I was always the sickly, hand-shy kid. Pain and odd ailments punctuate every major inflection point, like a divorce...
by Cyndi Bennett | Mar 16, 2022 | Attachment Trauma, Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Occupational Mental Health & CPTSD, Post Traumatic Growth
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and wondering why people were not listening to them. Now, there is the double...
by Ramon Diaz | Mar 15, 2022 | Combat Trauma, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
Media in many instances, in the US, has a way of capturing news that grabs the attention of its viewers. The headlines must immediately grab you or the news story may not be worth watching, for some. In the 21st century, the issues revolving around the border...
