Tag: anxiety
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Navigating CPTSD: Impact on Daily Lives and New Living Situations
New homes, old triggers: How CPTSD survivors navigate the challenges of moving, from hypervigilance to food trauma in shared living spaces.
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Yoga for CPTSD: How Trauma Survivors Can Use Yoga to Manage Symptoms
Managing symptoms of CPTSD can be difficult, especially since medications have such a low success rate and the symptoms are so pervasive. Trying to regulate ourselves and manage our various symptoms leads to self-isolation, which often keeps us stationary indoors. Because of physical trauma, many who live with CPTSD feel uncomfortable and disconnected from their…
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Coping With Moving Anxiety and CPTSD: Why Change Feels So Hard
Moving is hard, but if you suffer from anxiety or CPTSD it can be even more taxing. How do you cope with moving and managing mental chaos?
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The Traverse City Walmart Attack: An Opinion on America’s Failing Mental Health System
Traverse City Walmart Stabbing: Could This Attack Have Been Prevented? Michigan is reeling from an attack at the Traverse City, Michigan Walmart on July 26, 2025 where a 42-year-old man “allegedly” stabbed 11 people at random with a folding knife. Luckily, though there were serious injuries, none of the stabbings were fatal, and bystanders helped…
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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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Not All Mental Health Professionals Are Good : Tips On Recognizing Bad Therapists
At the very basic level those services are that your boundaries are respected, and your thoughts are heard. If there is no respect for boundaires, and poor listening then there is no kind of therapy happening.
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The Art of Rolling With The Punches
We never really know what we’re capable of until we’re in the situation. Sometimes it’s great to still be surprised with yourself, but if you’re someone living with high anxiety there is nothing worse than the unknown.
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A Mental Disorder Is Not An Identity
CPTSD is just something that is in my way, and every day I chip at it a little bit more because I will not let it control me and dictate the course of my life.
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Reviewing a year of failures and few accomplishments
Getting Old Is Easy The closer I get to forty, the more I start to reflect on my life. As much as I want to be proud of how much I have overcome, I still can’t shake the feeling that I have been robbed. It may be more apt to say that I go back…
Diary of a Flopping Fish 