by Dr. Mozelle Martin | May 19, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
People do not always hold onto what harms them because they are irrational. A lot of the time, they hold onto it because they know what is waiting underneath. That is the part public talk about addiction still gets wrong. It treats the substance as the whole problem,...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | May 5, 2026 | Borderline Personality Disorder, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
A bad idea does not need a big platform anymore. It just needs to sound clean, emotionally satisfying, and vaguely righteous. That is how nonsense travels now. Somebody with no training says, “There is no such thing as a personality disorder. It is all trauma,” and...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 28, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Some people spend years trying to explain a wound that began before they had words. That is one of the hardest parts of very early trauma. If the injury happens at the beginning, people often assume it should not count. They assume that if you cannot consciously...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 23, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Parentification is usually described as a childhood role reversal. A child becomes the emotional caretaker, mediator, problem-solver, or stabilizer in a home where adults are inconsistent, overwhelmed, impaired, or absent. In clinical language, it is a distortion of...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Apr 15, 2026 | Building Resilience in Healing, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
In my first mental health job in the early 1990s, I learned a rule that still holds under pressure. Never tell an upset client to “calm down.” It backfires. The person does not feel heard, seen, or validated. They feel managed. The phrase sounds helpful to the one...
by Dr. Mozelle Martin | Mar 18, 2026 | CPTSD, Mental Health Professional
Most people are taught to listen to words. Survivors listen to physics. They hear pitch, pace, volume, breath, the weight of a step in the hallway, the way a door closes, the length of a pause after their name. Those details are dismissed as “too sensitive” by people...
