PTSD is a mental illness that can develop after a traumatic experience. If you’ve experienced prolonged repetitive trauma, it’s called Complex PTSD.
Panic Attacks and Flashbacks
Refused help for anxiety, then blamed for suffering abuse, I attempted suicide. Now I know it wasn’t my fault, and tomorrow might get better.
PTSD and Pregnancy – Ask before you touch my bump
When people put their hands on my stomach without asking, I can go into a state of fear. Ask before you touch my bump. For my sake and the baby’s.
The Upward Spiral: A Great Read. How It’s Helping Me
Making tiny changes to the bad habits we fall into creates an upward spiral, as opposed to the downward spiral that is depression.
BPD and new trauma. Recovery and relapse.
How do you deal with a significant traumatic event when you are already suffering? How do you cope with new trauma?
Learn About Your Illness to Thrive With It
Have a safety plan in place. The key thing is knowing your illness, what triggers it, and when it’s getting out of control.
Why Can’t I Stop Living in the Past?
If only I could stop living in the past, and forget about the years of sexual abuse! I told, and I was called a liar. Then history repeated itself.
How I am rebuilding my confidence
I’m rebuilding my confidence by dancing again. I’m a work in progress. Under construction. One tiny dance step at a time.
Live, work and satisfy others, but never yourself?
Do you find you always have to please others, and never yourself? Be the person you want to be! There are no limits! FIGHT! FLY! AND RUN!
Therapists listen and help, but what about THEIR mental health?
Therapists are the forgotten victims of trauma. They suffer the grief and pain they hear from their clients. I cannot imagine their strength.
Learning That Trauma is Subjective
Trauma is subjective. Just because you wouldn’t experience trauma from a particular situation does not mean that somebody else would not.
Growing Up in a Broken Home: The Aftermath
By Tina Blacksmith It doesn’t end once the abuse is over. I didn’t realise at the time that I would deal with the aftermath of growing up in a broken home for years and years after he was gone. If someone thinks abuse isn’t “a big deal” and we should Continue Reading