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The LGBTQIA+ Community Complex Trauma, PTSD, and CPTSD
With all the trauma the LGBTQIA+ community faces nowadays, we must discuss how complex trauma from your past has shaped who you are today. No, I don’t mean that childhood trauma caused you to be...
The Black Hole in My Brain
TRIGGER WARNING: This blog discusses sexual abuse 2022 was chock-full of 20-year anniversaries for me. I was diagnosed with PTSD 20 years ago. Several terrifying events happened 20 years ago....
Healing Childhood Trauma, Part 1 – Acceptance
The child finds themselves living in a situation in which they have little or no control nor is there any hope of escape.
Free to be Happy
Recently, during meditation, I heard a young inner part of me, loud and clear: "I am not allowed to be happy." I had just received the publication date for The Blossoming Lotus, my up-coming...
Where Did all This Judgment Come From?
Do you judge yourself? Do you judge others? Do you find yourself critically responding (out loud, or in your mind) with demeaning or derogatory statements when you have a thought or notice a...
Undeserved Shame and the LGBTQ+ Community
June is Pride month, and CPTSD Foundation wants to acknowledge and celebrate our LBGTQ+ neighbors and friends. We will start with an article about how shame impacts lives in the LGBTQ+ community....
When Loving Someone in Need of Care Takes a Toll on You
How to take care of yourself by still being supportive of a trauma survivor. When a partner, friend, or family member has complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) it can affect their loved...
Suicidality or Just Plain Reality?
TRIGGER WARNING: This blog discusses suicidal ideation Jumping right into it is my specialty, so I'll do just that. I think that depression hits people with C-PTSD much differently than...
Just Julie: Complex Trauma Experience Expert and Patient Advocate
Hello everyone! My name is Julie, and I am joining the CPTSD Foundation as a blog contributor. Allow me to introduce myself. I am first and foremost a writer. I write under the pen name Just...
Hallucinogenics: Just a Dream or a Healing Reality?
I was stuck. I was working hard with my trauma therapist, taking all my meds, had a wonderful weekly trauma support group, an amazing support system (thanks cuz), and was voraciously digging my...
Dealing with Nightmares – When the Past Returns
Nightmares can be terrifying and all-encompassing for an individual who has suffered child abuse. Nightmares are one of the symptoms of Complex PTSD. They can happen out of the blue without...
Self-Awareness Breeds Self-Trust
Who are you? Do you know? Or does your past color your perception of who you are? Becoming more self-aware can aid you in learning to trust and love yourself. Sounds difficult? It is somewhat...
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”.
