Tag: cptsd
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Navigating Life’s Challenges: My Journey with Writing
Today I’d like to write a bit of an update and to reassure everyone that I’m not gone. Diary of a Flopping Fish is still moving along, thought it is going quite slowly. As I have written about before, it if very hard to balance other obligations and expectations while still have enough left in…
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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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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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Homelessness, Mental Health, and the 2025 Executive Order: An Opinion On Why Forced Treatment Isn’t the Answer
Explore how the 2025 Executive Order on homelessness overlooks mental health, PTSD, and workplace barriers while pushing forced treatment.
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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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Dysfunctional Family Dynamics: When “Blood Is Thicker Than Water” Hurts
For many of us, the subject of family is a loaded one. I’m sure I’m not the only one whose blood family is large and diverse, and not everyone in a large family gets along. It’s fine not to get along with everyone, but it is dangerous to think you still have to associate with…
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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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Life is Messy
Many of us have had to get all the naysayers out of our lives only to find out that they made such an imprint on us that now they live in our heads and how do we kick ourselves out of our lives? Well, we don’t. We change. We shrink the voice in our head…
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Daring To Dream: Thoughts on following your dreams when healing from trauma
Much of what keeps humans motivated to heal and improve their lives is trying to reach a goal. When we are suffering, and being held back by dysfunctional people in our lives, it is daring to dream that often brings us out of the darkness.
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Mental Health Awareness and Domestic Violence: Two sides of the same fight
My fight for mental health awareness is strongly tied to my fight against domestic violence because we do not wake up one morning and have an anxiety disorder, or a mood disorder that developed completely on its’ own without any help from our living situation. That, to me, is truly crazy.
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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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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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Holiday Stress: Unpopular opinions and preparing for the new year
I hate to be a drag, and I know that it’s supposed to be a cheery time, but honestly it is stressful and sad. As we all do, I try to hold on to the good things about the holidays and let them make up for all the bad.
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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…
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CPTSD : A perspective on the invisible wounds and murder of creativity
Our brains don’t consider creativity to be a survival tool I have taken an accidental hiatus from writing this blog lately, and I hope this return post is not too disapointing, but I feel it is a good time to explore why it is just so hard to get anything out. In my previous article…
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Nothing Worth It Is Ever Easy : Hard Truths on Boundaries
On the contrary, we tend to stick around with the devil that we know, and the devil that we know is aware that they have the power in a relationship because they know an open wound when they see one.
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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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