Tag: trauma
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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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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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Setting Boundaries: Why It Feels Wrong—And Why It’s Crucial for Healing
The difficulty of setting boundaries goes beyond the need to please others. It affects people from all walks of life, including those in addiction recovery, those re-entering society after incarceration, and survivors of toxic relationships.
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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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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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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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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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How Far is Far Enough?
How far is far enough away to escape the past? I am further away now from the place of my birth than I have ever lived. I wish could say it was an entirely pleasant journey, but it was more of a flight.
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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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PTSD and Interpersonal Relationships – A Survivors Perspective
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not an easy disorder to deal with for the person that suffers from it or the people that are around them. This does not mean to lose heart because there are many different paths to healing available, however, the road is not paved.
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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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Healing Is Painful: A Perspective On Recovering From Trauma
Healing is not a linear experience, nor is it pleasant or easy. It is far easier to let yourself drown in addiction and misery than it will ever be to drag yourself into a therapist’s office or rehab.
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