trauma

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Anxiety

How Chronic Illness Can Cause Anxiety

When you’re living with a chronic illness, it is natural to begin to have anxiety about the future. What will progression look like? How will symptoms evolve? Will there be a burden on your family? How will you afford to manage your health and daily activities? Worrying about any of these things can cause you to feel anxious, let alone worry about multiple factors. Treatment options exist to combat any anxiety you may have and allow you to be as mentally focused as possible to push through your chronic illness and find joy in living your life.

Complex PTSD Nightmares: What Do They Mean?

Complex PTSD Nightmares: What Do They Mean?

Complex PTSD nightmares persist, coming between you and your health as well as you and your relationships. And no doubt, you want to be free of them. To find relief, it is important to understand what these nightmares are trying to tell you.

Complex PTSD Dissociation: 5 Ways the Brain Naturally Protects During Long-term Trauma

Complex PTSD Dissociation: 5 Ways the Brain Naturally Protects During Long-term Trauma

PTSD dissociation is a stress response that causes a broken mental and emotional link between things or experiences you would normally associate with one another. You process life very differently to accommodate the upsetting way you learned to see the world.

How to Find an EMDR Therapist and What to Expect

How to Find an EMDR Therapist and What to Expect

An EMDR therapist primary goal is to help you cope with trauma symptoms and overwhelming emotions. As well as, behaviors that continue to sabotage your perceptions, relationships, and goals. This proven therapy can create an environment where distress fades. Your brain wants to heal itself.

EMDR Therapy Benefits You Don't Want to Miss

EMDR Therapy Benefits You Don't Want to Miss

A common EMDR therapy benefit is more accessible memories and an active dream state result. EMDR may seem to awaken and invigorate your brain in a general sense, stimulating access to vividly detailed recall and REM sleep. Participants also experience a host of other EMDR therapy benefits that change their thinking, goals, relationships, and even the dreams they dream at night.

What is EMDR Psychotherapy and How is It Helpful?

What is EMDR Psychotherapy and How is It Helpful?

Is EMDR Psychotherapy right for you? Not everyone embraces the idea of traditional talk therapy. Especially when depression drains them. Or traumatic memories make life unpredictable. Or the pain of abuse is too terrible to talk about freely. Suffering emotional or psychological pain can make long talk sessions seem unbearable.

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.

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:

The 4 Most Common Treatments for PTSD

The 4 Most Common Treatments for PTSD

These common treatments for PTSD are essential because, trauma, unchecked, changes you. The stress of it seeps into your mind and body. You feel it in your body. You experience it again and again. You see your trauma, smell it, taste it, sense it. But you are not alone.With the help of a trained and compassionate therapist, recovery are entirely possible.