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Growing Into Adulthood in an Alcoholic or Other Dysfunctional Home
***TRIGGER WARNING*** Being a child in a dysfunctional home has long-lasting effects on their lives clear into adulthood. The secrecy and pain that accompany growing up in such a home leave...
Genetic Pathcutting and the Spiritual Implications of Infant Trauma
On the path of awakening or Spiritual Ascension, the first stages for spiritual healing include emotional and mental body clearing of these accumulated soul memories that are recorded from both the...
How to Battle ADHD Kryptonite!
Kryptonite for ADHD brains is Boredom. I know, all of you neurotypicals out there are sniggering to yourselves alittle bit. Boredom? really? Allow me to explain.
Be Brave – We Know It’s in You: A Returning Servicemember Takes on Mental Health
Asking For Help Doesn’t Make You Weak If you’re a veteran or first responder, I assume you’ve survived your fair share. If that’s the case, you’re also probably stronger for it. So why does it feel...
Improving the Outcomes for Queer IPV Survivors
Improving the Outcomes for Queer IPV Survivors When I tell people who know little about me that I am a survivor of domestic violence, they tend to make assumptions. First, they assume that I was in...
Suicide Prevention and Advocacy Saves Lives
Although it may seem CPTSD Foundation has been focused on the morbid subject of suicide, remaining silent helps people to die. So, in September, National Suicide Awareness Month, we have...
Getting The Care You Need: Understanding Trauma Includes Emotional Injury
The word trauma is so important to help those who suffer from emotional injury. Yet people so often think of trauma as only including physical or sexual injury. Many overlook its role in their...
When Grief Gets Complicated
Complicated grief requires support. It is grief that is not simply resolved with time. “Time heals all wounds” does not apply.
The Link Between Complex Trauma and Suicidal Ideation
This series of articles in September has focused primarily on advocating and supporting someone who has suicidal ideations or has attempted to die by suicide. As September is National Suicide...
PTSD and Sleep: Common Issues and How to Address Them
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. Among the symptoms associated with PTSD are sleep problems, which BMC...
How to Support a Loved One with CPTSD
By Maxine Dolma If you were to ask me what I would want a romantic partner to know about loving and lending me support while dealing with the reality of CPTSD, this is what I’d say: I have complex...
Healing the Invisible
After a few tries you wonder if the voices of the CPTSD are right. You fear you never will be ‘visible’. … But there is a tiny voice within undulled by all the abuses and fear that whispers – “Try.”
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”.
