Working Through Self-Defeat & PTSD
Self-defeat is a common symptom of Complex Trauma or PTSD. It is an expression of a shutdown-freeze state and is frequently accompanied by depression.
Emotional Coping & PTSD: Learn 2 Strategies for Recovery
When you are down and depressed, sometimes you need to kick yourself in the butt and start moving your energy. That moving your energy potentially gets you unstuck. It gets you out of stagnancy and a defeat mindset.
PTSD Insomnia & The Desire for Peaceful Sleep
Not being able to sleep, fall asleep, stay asleep, or have a restful sleep are very common symptoms when dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress.
PTSD and Why You Gain Weight
When your stress hormones rise and stay chronically high, your metabolism changes from glucose oxidation to fatty acid oxidation.
Fight or Flight Response In PTSD: What You Need to Know
When you are overwhelmed by emotion, you react. That reaction helps you to survive, but also creates patterns that reenact themselves
Questions and Answers Regarding PTSD and CPTSD
Could you tell me in a basic way what happens in your brain when you have PTSD? What are the cognitive processes that are involved?
Narcissism, Rejection, Betrayal, and How They Can Contribute to CPTSD or PTSD
When on a core level you feel unloved or not validated, you will instinctively seek for its opposite, which is validation, to compensate for that lack of validation.
PTSD Flashbacks and How The Past Is Relived in The Present Moment
PTSD Flashbacks and How The Past Is Relived in The Present Moment. The experience of time changes drastically when you have PTSD of Complex Trauma.
Dealing with Regret and How It Relates to Complex PTSD
Regret can haunt you; it can make you miserable, it can keep you locked in the past, and, simultaneously, project itself into the future in an attempt to make up for the past.
Self-Sabotage in Complex PTSD, PTSD, and Survivors of Child Abuse
Relationships are an area where sabotage becomes most apparent.