Category: Articles
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How CPTSD Survivors Can Protect Their Dreams From Other People’s Expectations
CPTSD, boundaries, and breaking free from control.
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Are SSRI (Antidepressants)Withdrawals Comparable To Heroin Withdrawal?
Today I want to talk specifically about SSRI’s and the dangers that are only recently coming into the spotlight. There were 42 million Americans taking antidepressants in 2020, and it has become entirely normal for people to take antidepressants. However, SSRI’s are often prescribed for moderate depression that doesn’t meet criteria for Major Depressive Disorder…
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Coping Strategies for College Students with PTSD
College is a pivotal time in our lives where we learn skills and develop talents that will impact the rest of our lives. It is also well known that college is hard, and for many it is a test of our fortitude to push through in difficult times. Attending college with a disability or mental…
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Domestic Violence: Why They Stay
The truth is that the people who are doing bad things are very good at it. We can’t be too hard on ourselves for “falling for it” because, frankly, they lied to us, and we didn’t find out until we were trapped. We get trapped emotionally, financially, and sometimes even physically. Statistics show that most…
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PTSD and Cholesterol: Does PTSD really make it more likely to have high cholesterol?
What has become apparent to me while doing this research is that PTSD on its own is not what causes any of these conditions, but much of it is ruled by our everyday decisions to either show up for ourselves and take care of our bodies, or not.
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PTSD and Inflammation: How our diet can help or hinder our healing journey
Unfortunately, the more I read, the more I realize that our traditional American diets are very much the problem with our health. The assembly line of processed foods made food cheap but dying easier.
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Morning anxiety causes and what may help to reduce it
I wake up every morning around 5:30 AM to a chorus of all my life’s worst moments and my inner voice being a complete $#@%. This morning anxiety takes hours to snap myself out of which destroys large chunks of time that was supposed to be for chores or work.
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Don’t Sit in Your Pain: Advice on Healing from Emotional Trauma
Part of the reason why recovery is so hard is because it requires us to completely rewire ourselves, change all our habits, overcome things that we didn’t even know were a trauma response.
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Emotional Manipulation and the Many Forms of Invisible Abuse
While the reasons may vary, the damage caused by emotional manipulation may last longer than the abuse.
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What Is Emotional Validation and How to Be Better at it
Emotional validation is the basis on which we all use to feel secure in being ourselves and expressing our feelings. It can form us into confident people or drive us towards codependent tendencies. It determines whether relationships of all kinds thrive or fail. The lack of it forms the basis for gaslighting and the effects…
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A Quick Look At Impostor Syndrome
Do you secretly feel like you’re an impostor? Are you worried that one day you’ll be found out? Read on to learn about the ins and outs of Impostor Syndrome.
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Procrastination Woe’s And A Few Tips
“The nature of keeping lists in our heads means that we ruminate on them and, if you’re like me, then you also tend to forget things on them anyway.”
Diary of a Flopping Fish 