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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...
I Tried rTMS and This is What Happened
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation or rTMS for short, has been around for quite a while. It is a mental health treatment that was developed in 1985. It hasn’t entered into mainstream...
Applying the 12-Steps to C-PTSD
When used in conjunction with other treatments like therapy and/or medication, 12-Step programs can be a useful part of C-PTSD recovery. The 12-Steps are taught at group meetings and run in a...
When Art Therapy Becomes Exposure Therapy
Ever have one of those moments when a breakthrough hits you so hard that you’re absolutely stunned that you never saw it before? I was only diagnosed with CPTSD last year, so this has been...
Stress and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Everyone experiences stress at one point or another in their lives. Perhaps you face a new boss at work or a medical problem of your own, or a family member. Countless incidents cause stress....
5 Tips for When Trauma Makes You Clumsy
This article was originally published on The Mighty, on March 24th, 2022 I am a champion face-planter. I am also highly skilled at tripping over nothing, walking into door frames, and tipping...
Vagus-informed Therapy Creates Conditions for A Person to Heal from Trauma
Vagus-informed Therapy Creates Conditions for A Person to Heal from Trauma The trauma field has seen a sharp increase in interest by researchers and clinicians alike within the past 25 years or...
It Turns Out Mind-Body Connection Isn’t All Just Nonsense
I have lived most of my life thinking that deep breathing (and all its cousins) were something people had, collectively agreed to B.S. about. Not because they were being malicious, but due...
Back to Life. Back to…Reality?
This article was previously posted on Medium.com *8/24/2021 Mental health, am I right? Reentering the “real world” after my brain shut down in June has been…interesting. They call it a partial...
Incest: The Secret No One Should Keep
Trigger Warning The following piece deals with incest and is not suitable for all readers. ...
This is Me, I Am Triggered
Trigger Warning ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Time stops. My mind is now its’ own universe, everything...
CPTSD: Psychiatric Injury
A decade ago, I had a counselor refer to CPTSD as a “psychiatric injury” as opposed to a “mental illness”. Something about that delineation really helped me understand the reality of what was...
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”.
