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The Importance of Psychoeducational Material that is Trauma-sensitive for the Survivor and the Practitioner
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) is a common disorder altering the lives of millions of people. Yet, there is little training available for survivors or practitioners. This article...
A Child Lost in Time: Trauma and Chronic Pain
As I sit here with several benign tumors that are causing constant pain, I realize how chronic medical problems have followed me throughout life. I was always the sickly, hand-shy kid....
Coming Off of Mute
With the advent of working from home during COVID, we have all seen and chuckled at the videos going around of people either not being on mute and wishing they were, or people being on mute and...
The War at the Border and Its Effect on Adolescent Mental Health
Media in many instances, in the US, has a way of capturing news that grabs the attention of its viewers. The headlines must immediately grab you or the news story may not be worth...
The Importance of Becoming Trauma-Informed
Many people are ill-informed or know nothing about mental health disorders, including complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) and how it affects those around them. There are hundreds if...
Make A Decision
The greatest power each of us has is the power to choose. May we wield it with clarity and purpose.
The Reality and Non-Reality of Pre, Post and Complex-PTSD
Scenario: You find yourself in a private or business situation where mental and/or physical abuse is the order of the day for a very, very long time. It took you a while but slowly awareness is...
Why We Need to Change Our Stories About Addiction
Why are we so reluctant to let go of outdated ideas and concepts, terrified that we will relapse if we don't maintain the status quo? Recovery is about stories. Stories of hope,...
An Analogy to Explain CPTSD
People often find it difficult to explain, or to understand Complex PTSD. I often find myself falling into metaphor or analogy to explain the experience. The reason for using an abstraction is...
The Body Stores Trauma in Different Ways
Researchers discuss about how trauma causes stress levels to become unstable. I want to take a closer look at what this means. From one view, stress can point to a specific stress chemical that...
Introduction to CPTSD in the Workplace
Sometimes, managing the symptoms of CPTSD and developmental trauma seems like a full-time job, but I already have a full-time career. How can I make it through the workday without totally falling...
Healing from Rejection Trauma
The entire month of February, we discussed rejection trauma and how it affects people who grew up in abusive homes. We have discussed what rejection trauma is, how rejection trauma affects...
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”.
