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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 watching,...
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 not...
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Why are we so reluctant to let go of outdated ideas and concepts, terrified that we will relapse if we don't maintain the status quo?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 is...
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...
The Double Standard of Adoption & Pro-life
Pro-life A foetus has rights! Adoption A child in a contract they never signed! What is being said here is that you as life, have rights, but only under the conditions that are dictated. Adoptees...
Trauma From a Bio-Molecular Lens
Working in an intensive outpatient facility, I often encounter presenting symptoms of depression, anxiety, and different presentations of personality disorders at a severe level. One contributing...
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”.
