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Let us talk about the difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD. It’s assumed that everyone that has endured trauma has PTSD. Though there is a distinction.
PTSD relates to sensory flashbacks that a person experiences when they are met with a sound, smell, or other stimulus that has been conditioned to signify danger and threat. This immediately activates the sympathetic nervous system and leads a person into past memories real time. Intrusions happen in dreams, thoughts, and there is an experience of intense fear that link back to these traumatic incidents.
CPTSD is more of a chronic ongoing series of trauma. This person’s experience can be filled with 1 or several traumatic experiences, and/or ongoing neglect, abuse—where a person cannot really identify 1 incident since their lives were filled with ongoing, never ending painful experiences. Therefore, triggers are more relational- things people say, things people do, certain behaviors of others are triggers and activate threat responses. These behaviors are memories of painful pasts where they were hurt by others.
For both, healing happens in connection to others. For healing to happen, we must take the risk of being seen by another, and when ready, slowly trusting them with our hearts. This can be a therapist, friend, family member. It’s also important that we re-claim our control over our bodies by practicing self regulation and relaxation. So when we are met with emotional or sensory triggers, we can manage our threat response by regulating our bodies- sending a message we are not in danger—and eventually pairing the conditioned stimulus (whatever the trigger is) with the new conditioned response (regulation, self control, groundedness, clarity). It’s hard work. It can feel like a lot is at stake in the beginning. Go at your own speed. You navigate your healing.
Sending love to you amigxs!
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Try to forgive yourself. It was never your fault. #repost @b.e.frank #stopapologizing #ptsdrecovery #ptsdquotes #ptsdsurvivor #cptsd #cptsdrecovery #cptsdsurvivor #cptsdwarriors #cptsdawareness #complexptsd #complextrauma #traumarecovery #traumabonding #traumahealing #gaslighting #gaslightingawareness #narcissticabuse #emotionalabuseawareness #emotionalabusesurvivor #emotionalwellness #mentalhealthhelp #trauma #traumainformed #apologizing #ptsdsupport #ptsdtherapy #complexptsd #traumatherapy #traumatherapist
Sometimes you need a quick check-in with the Self. Here are some simple, accessible tools. How do you center yourself? Share below so we can all learn a new tool
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When people were not loved enough as children, or when they were hurt growing up, it damages the way they feel about themselves.
Our job is to love and affirm them, to fill up those empty spaces until they are able to believe that they are loveable.
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Trauma has a huge impact on our brains, especially when it happens in childhood. It literally makes our brains develope differently, and it's no surprise our minds and personalities adjust accordingly. Some damage can't be fixed, but all is not lost! There is a lot you can do, you can heal, change, and be free. Therapy (and medication) are important tools to help you become who you are meant to be, don't give up
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You are the evidence of your healing abilities.
Facilitating growth & healing is a privilege that comes with huge responsibility - to heal yourself first so that you aren’t putting your pain on another. To always inquire & look for ways that you may cause harm or be operating + benefitting from patriarchal age of supremacy and othering.
Paul Selig said, “you can’t be the light and put another in darkness.” Words that resound for me when I act from my wound. #notestomyself [Heal yourself to heal others. Not the other way around.]
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