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Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Healing Complex PTSD in Women: Post Traumatic Growth

Studies show that women are consistently more likely to meet criteria for complex PTSD. Additionally, experts find that women experience more severe symptoms than men. This is true even when men experienced the same traumatic events. Why? Scientists find that women think and process trauma differently and more acutely.

Choosing a PTSD Psychotherapist: Your 5 Step Guide to “Professional Help”

Choosing a PTSD Psychotherapist: Your 5 Step Guide to “Professional Help”

For PTSD sufferers, therapy is an excellent first step. You need a supportive person, expertly trained and dedicated to seeing you through effective treatment and lasting recovery. Where trauma seemed to have robbed you of so much, you now have the opportunity to seek out a relationship with a PTSD psychotherapist that is both trustworthy and therapeutic.

PTSD and Bipolar: 5 Ways to Take Charge and Find Relief.

PTSD and Bipolar: 5 Ways to Take Charge and Find Relief.

Do you have PTSD and bipolar disorder? How are you doing? Are you struggling to find relief? Do you wonder how you can manage the two together? Do you long to find more freedom in life? Please know that you are not alone. In fact, it's often the case that PTSD and bipolar exist together. Experts note that the experience is fairly common.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD With Mindfulness: 4 Reasons Why It is Successful.

Treating PTSD with mindfulness has a lot to offer you if you commit to it. Science has proven it and other PTSD sufferers swear by it. Maybe now is the time to pursue a way to live life less overwhelmed. More at peace with your symptoms and less at war with your current world and the people in it.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

5 Tips for Healing PTSD: It is Possible.

Healing PTSD is possible yet you may feel: That your future is out of your control and healing might be impossible? That it's hard to even picture the future existing, much less imagine what it will be like? Many people with PTSD allow past trauma to create their future life.

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

PTSD nightmares: 5 Tips to Help You Cope and Heal

Are you having PTSD nightmares? The toll PTSD nightmares puts on an already taxed mind is intense. Often times, they create deeper problems or push the sufferer toward unhealthy coping. Without proper rest, PTSD can start to overwhelm and further strain you during the waking hours.

The Harmful Effects of Body Shaming & Why It Needs to Stop!

The Harmful Effects of Body Shaming & Why It Needs to Stop!

The harmful effects of body shaming hits hard and wounds deeply. Also, body shaming communicate that those who allow themselves to exist outside the ”right” body norms should be punished. They are seen as being “lazy,” “unmotivated,” or “undisciplined.” Body shaming keeps alive stigmas and social division. Drawing a line between the worthy and the unworthy.

Identifying Complex PTSD: Common Signs and Symptoms

Identifying Complex PTSD: Common Signs and Symptoms

Complex PTSD weighs heavy on the total person. It affects a one's self concept, body, mind, and relationships. Here are the most common signs and symptoms and ways of identifying c-ptsd.

PTSD Dissociation: 3 Reasons Why Life Feels Unreal after a Trauma

PTSD Dissociation: 3 Reasons Why Life Feels Unreal after a Trauma

When a person suffers PTSD dissociation, the brain copes with an overwhelming experience by disconnecting from it. Therefore, disconnection disrupts a person’s level of awareness, sense of self and memory. They may experience one or more of the three reasons for that floaty, “unreal” feeling:

Recognizing PTSD Signs and Symptoms

Recognizing PTSD Signs and Symptoms

If the danger is gone, maybe long gone, but the shock and alarm persist, you may be dealing with some of these PTSD signs and symptoms. When “fight or flight“ is a way of life, post- traumatic stress may be a factor. PTSD persists in your mind. It lingers in your body. It upsets your relationships.