Living with C-PTSD
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People often view me as someone who cries for no reason, who has emotional outbursts that tear through space and time. They write me off as disorganized for not being able to fold...
Ten years ago, at the age of 50, I finally found the courage to confront my abusive childhood and begin the healing process. My mother is a pedophile as were the many sick men she...
I’m a domestic violence victim and I’ve been healing from symptoms of C-PTSD since September 2024 and for the first time ever, I saw what C-PTSD looks like in someone else. Just th...
There’s a weird thing that happens when you’re a male survivor of childhood abuse and you grow up. You live your life without announcing what happened to you as a kid. There’s no g...
My whole world had fallen apart at the seams. What was left, after everything was said and done, was myself, a six-man tent, everything I owned in a backpack, and my dog. I had run...
One of the greatest misconceptions I encounter is that trauma belongs in the past. However, trauma is not only a historical experience but is a psychobiological process that influe...
Understanding Increased Vulnerability and Symptoms: Beyond the Diagnosis and Survival Instincts During all those years before I finally got the right diagnosis of PTSD and AuDHD,...
There is a particular kind of quiet that follows trauma. Not the peaceful kind or the kind you choose. But the kind that settles in when something inside you has gone still… or far...
It’s in the Silence You Hear the Loudest Things ***Trigger Warning*** This article discusses specific, explicit, aspects of a personal trauma story. Please be kind to yourself as y...
A compelling and deeply personal collection of eight memoirs is capturing the attention of readers seeking truth, healing, and transformation. Rooted in lived experience and center...
Reading Time: 7 minutesTrauma comes in many shapes and sizes, and one of those types is cPTSD, not to be confused with PTSD, which is a different kettle of fish The post Complex P...
Review: What is Developmental Trauma? Developmental trauma is different. It is not one event. It is not even a series of events. It is the result of growing up inside danger itse...
Many years ago, I took a course to become certified in clinical hypnosis — one more tool to keep in my kit as a licensed clinical psychologist. During that training, the instructor...
Spirituality. I truly don’t think I’d be here today without it—without my unwavering belief that there is something larger than all of this, something beyond me and my past traumas...
“SITTING WITH MY INNER CHILD” When I started on the healing journey as I call it from my abusive childhood, one very important tool that I learned to do is sit with my inner child....
There’s a moment many people on a healing path quietly come to – often after years of trying, pushing, and doing all the “right” things. It’s the moment they realize: “I thought I...
It all started one night back in mid-July 2005 when I woke up to use the bathroom. Within minutes I began shaking so badly that I could hardly hold a glass of water. I was so ter...
Frequently, a sexual abuse victim comes forward after many years of silence–sometimes much later in life. Doing so means facing skepticism. Why did you wait? How can you be credibl...
Can anyone heal from war? Discover Mark Tyler Page's journey through PTSD recovery, addiction, and hope after combat. The post “The Little Ones” Mark Tyler Page With Tom Matlack ap...
As one day slid into the next, I transitioned from the final seconds of childhood into adulthood. Covering my head with a pillow to dampen the screams at the other end of the trail...
For some trauma survivors, calm does not feel peaceful at first. It can feel suspicious, temporary, or unsafe because the nervous system learned to prepare for what came next.
The invisible wound When people think about childhood trauma, they might imagine bruises from physical abuse, scars on skin that remain red and thick, stories of children left alon...
Growing up without affection can shape the way we seek and avoid love. On my thirteenth birthday my mother drove me to a mental hospital in Chicago. She claimed she couldn’t ‘handl...
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