by Robyn Brickel | Jan 31, 2022 | ACEs, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor
CDC research shows more than 60 percent of American adults have as children experienced at least one ACE (adverse childhood experience), and almost a quarter of adults have experienced 3 or more ACEs — and this is likely an underestimate. [Source: CDC] Because...
by Destiny Mowadeng | Jan 26, 2022 | CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, Sexual Abuse
This is not worth your time. It probably will not teach you anything you already didn’t know. The result? You will walk away feeling stupid. Maybe just maybe you will feel as if I have wasted your time! The statements I made will be true for some people and not true...
by Lee Frost | Jan 25, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor
In 2021, at the age of 51, the acute effects of CPTSD started to tear me asunder. The mayhem wrought by a global pandemic certainly played a factor, but physically, perimenopause had been underway for a few years and an indescribable anxiety was constant. Unable to...
by Ramon Diaz | Jan 20, 2022 | CPTSD, Guest Contributor, Silent Bystander Parents
Silent Bystander Parents (SBP) do not intend to allow their children to be harmed by coaches. Research tells us that many families are not even aware that abuse is occurring. The emotional abuse happens right in front of them, and they often do not realize the...
by Lee Frost | Jan 18, 2022 | Guest Contributor, PTSD
Even though there is an abundance of literature on PTSD, we lack a thorough understanding of the biological causes that explain why it is more than twice as prevalent in women than men. Women are also more likely to experience chronic PTSD for more than a year....
by Maria Anna van Driel | Jan 5, 2022 | CPTSD, CPTSD and PTSD, Guest Contributor, PTSD
The power of meta-cognition You have no clue when or how but, somehow you have slid into this odd air bubble filled with millions and millions of thoughts still, a deafening silence is what you hear when focusing on these thoughts. Dozens of familiar and uncontrolled...
