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Relentless Flashbacks
Trauma recovery is a painful struggle to find your sanity, your voice, and happiness. My experience with dissociation, amnesia, flashbacks, nightmares, insomnia, panic attacks, anxiety, depression,...
The Thumb-Sucker
The Thumb-Sucker Fight or flight: the instinctive physiological response to a threatening situation, which readies one either to resist forcibly or to run away. **Please be kind to yourself as you...
Seeking Help for Self-Harming Behavior
***Trigger Warning: This article will speak about self-harm and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** Self-harm is one of the most challenging subjects to talk about, but millions of people will...
The Dreaded DSM and CPTSD
The Dreaded DSM and CPSTD According to the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) when I describe my symptoms, it advises doctors, psychologists that I would most likely have...
The Mental Health Disorders Most Associated with Self-Harm
***Trigger Warning: This article will contain self-harm information and may not be suitable for all audiences.*** This series has focused on different types of self-harm, its causes, and a...
Redefining Failure as a Parent with CPTSD
Parenting with CPTSD means that it is essential to understand where some of our over-reactions come from. For example, perfectionism and unrealistic expectations that lead to judgment, guilty, shame, blame, anxiety, and helplessness. Doing the work means healing ourselves so as not to pass on the trauma to the next generation.
Unrequited Love From our Family of Origin
I started writing as a way to process and talk about exceedingly difficult things I knew I needed to discuss in therapy but was unable to even begin to make sense of myself. For such a long time, I...
The Missing Peace… An Introduction
Danielle Renee Murphy, expressive therapist and writer, invites you to explore expressive therapy techniques to heal past trauma on a linear, process-focused journey.
The Importance of Talking About Suicide
***TRIGGER WARNING*** This article will tackle active and passive suicide and may not be suitable for sensitive audiences. In our first article about self-harm, we tackled the subject with as much...
The Willow Tree
The Willow Tree The windswept the hair from my eyes One tear streaming down my cheek I always seem to have goodbyes Every year every month every week They fill my head with their lies When I...
Self-Harm and Complex PTSD
***Trigger Warning This article contains information that may upset sensitive readers. The following article is about self-harming and should not be read by those who find this subject...
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”.
