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How to Build Resilience as a Trauma Survivor
As a result of living through the recent COVID-19 global pandemic, we will all have lived through trauma. Some will register this as adding to their trauma history. This could mean that every child...
Discovering Your Inner Child
There is much psychiatry does not understand about how our psyche works. Indeed, because psychiatric symptoms are mostly self-reported, there is little evidence that mental disorders exist. However,...
The Trauma Bond and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
Narcissistic abuse of children is extremely harmful to their mental and physical health. These kids grow up with mixed messages about who they are and suffer other consequences from never feeling...
My Amygdala: A Love Story (Part II)
My Amygdala: A Love Story (Part II)This is Part II of my story, continued from last week (see Part I). I had just recounted my discovery of CPTSD in my desperate attempt to understand why I suffered...
The Neuroscience of Narcissism and Narcissistic Abuse
This series has focused on narcissism and narcissistic abuse of children and how their past inhibits their present. However, some questions need answering, including the most common, "Why did she/he...
My Amygdala: A Love Story (Part I)
My Amygdala: A Love Story (Part I) This is not your average love story, but I think it’s a love story nonetheless. It begins with desperation and jealousy, with insecurity and fear; fear of loss of...
Narcissistic abuse and Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Narcissistic parents cause enormous harm to their children. When grown, these victims of narcissistic abuse face seemingly insurmountable problems, including the formation of complex post-traumatic...
Medical and Mental Health Gaslighting and Iatrogenic Injury
You are a woman and go to the emergency room with a severe cough and the ER doctor listens intently at first and acts nice. However, the physician sees on your record that you have a mental health...
Jack in the Box – Part Three ‘An Ongoing Conclusion’
In finalising this brief three-part series of self-reflective articles on ‘me’ and my relationship with trauma or specifically CPTSD you may have guessed from Part 1 and Part 2 that ‘Jack in the...
What is Narcissism and How Might It Affect You Today?
It is not unusual for human beings to be a little narcissistic and is a developmental stage that every teenager and young adult passes through. However, what if that narcissism continues into adult...
Jack in the Box – Part Two
Jack in the Box Part Two follows on from Part One which is a personal account of my own experience how I reached 48 years old and was required to stop in my tracks and go back to the age of 22 months old. It was time to go to the past and ask ‘what happened to me’.
The Danger of Burnout and Secondary Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Police officers, nurses, doctors, nursing aides, and many other professionals stand on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic. While catching the virus themselves is a huge danger, the second...
What is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
“Complex PTSD comes in response to chronic traumatization over the course of months or, more often, years. This can include emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuses, domestic violence, living in a war zone, being held captive, human trafficking, and other organized rings of abuse, and more. While there are exceptional circumstances where adults develop C-PTSD, it is most often seen in those whose trauma occurred in childhood”.