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Dealing with Triggers and Flashbacks
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a complicated and life-altering mental health challenge formed when a person is under extreme distress with no escape. Many symptoms accompany...
It Isn’t “Love Addiction”, It’s “Attachment Trauma”
When a new relationship starts (actually, it doesn't even need to start), we are overwhelmed with emotional flashbacks from younger "Inner Parts" desperate to be loved, protected, and supported....
Strategy: Coping With the Hard Parts of Life
The hard parts of life happen every day. Sometimes everything feels like a hard part — especially for trauma survivors. Being in traffic Arguing with partner Running late A dog growling Rising...
Social Camouflaging In Order to Fit In Today’s Society
ADHD, PTSD, CPTSD, and Narcissism. Although these conditions are different, they all have one thing in common and that is ‘masking’ aka social camouflaging. Masking, first used to describe the...
Incest: When Child Sexual Abuse Happens at Home
When we were children, adults often told us to be careful not to be alone with strangers and if anything happens to let someone we trust know immediately. For many of us though, the real danger was at home. This article describes How does incest impacts a child?
EMDR Adventures: Accelerated Resolution Therapy “Rewriting the Story of Childhood Trauma”
Originally posted on Medium.com April 27, 2022* In August of 2021, I began EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy to deal with childhood trauma. With 15 years of talk...
Trauma, Stress, and Resilience
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a condition that causes life-altering problems for those who experience it. The symptoms of CPTSD occur due to complex trauma, and building...
Generalized Anxiety In Children
Johnny peaked around the corner and listened intensely to the man on the news talking about war. His heart did that fast-thumping thing, he felt cold all of the sudden, a drop of cold sweat hit...
The Mental Illness Trigger You May Not Have Heard Of
This article was originally published on The Mighty, in April 2021. I’ve experienced this particular trigger twice in recent years, and I really haven’t heard others speak on it. So, as per my...
One Year In – What I Have Learned as an Alienated Parent
On May 9th of this year, it will have been a full 365 days since I was erased from my daughter’s life. The process of alienating a child from a loving parent often takes years of quietly applied...
Chronic Stress vs. Complex Trauma
Keep in mind that May is Mental Health Awareness Month a time to examine oneself and learn all you can about mental health and how it affects everyone. Stress. What human beings living in this...
Diagnosed: CPTSD and Why the Label Matters
Imagine for a moment you were adopted at a young age by loving parents. They were honest with you. Your biological parents existed out there in the world somewhere. When you looked up at the...
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”.
