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Childhood trauma: understanding and overcoming toxic shame and cPTSD.

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Toxic shame – the facade of emotional flashbacks: Toxic shame can rightly be seen as a facade for emotional flashbacks. Emotional flashbacks are a core feature of cPTSD, constantly occurring and accompanied by intense fear, shame, and inadequacy. Toxic shame will cause the sufferer to feel guilty and ashamed during an emotional flashback, even if …

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Childhood Trauma: understanding and overcoming rage in cPTSD

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Childhood Trauma: understanding and overcoming rage in cPTSD. This post will overview the causes, symptoms, and possible coping strategies of rage in cPTSD. Through a deeper understanding of rage in childhood trauma, affected individuals can learn to understand and regulate their rage better. The aim is to help sufferers overcome their rage and regain control …

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Childhood Trauma: Dissociation in cPTSD

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Childhood Trauma: Dissociation in cPTSD – What You Need to Know I. Introduction  Dissociation in cPTSD is a complex issue requiring much attention and understanding. It involves separating the individual from parts of his or her perception, thoughts and memories due to childhood trauma. cPTSD, short for complex post-traumatic stress syndrome, is a severe form …

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Childhood trauma: cPTSD in relationships

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Childhood Trauma: cPTSD – understanding and supporting your partner on the road to healing Understand your loved one better and support him on his road to recovery: If your partner suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD), living together can be emotionally challenging. But it’s important to know that you can support him on his …

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Childhood trauma – forms: These are the most important cPTSD symptoms

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Childhood trauma – cPTSD Symptoms Childhood trauma (cPTSD) as a result of abuse and neglect leads to manifold disorders in a wide variety of areas, especially in the control of emotions, self-perception, sexuality or the shaping of relationships. In addition, there are changes in self-perception and personal values and beliefs within the framework of a …

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Year in review: Being alive is a wonderful gift

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The year is drawing to a close — time for a review of the year and a look ahead. If I’m not certain how long I will live, I want to do everything I can to be in tune with my values.  When people need help to survive, I want to help as many people …

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Childhood trauma forms: unwanted children and their reactions

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Childhood trauma forms: when children learn that they are not wanted Children are completely dependent on the people around them. If a child must learn that it is not wanted by parents or primary caretakers, it cannot interpret that situation as abusive. In a child’s world, people cannot be bad and evil at the same …

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Childhood trauma reactions – what happens in the brain during extreme fear

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Childhood trauma responses: Neurobiology To understand what childhood trauma reactions do in the brain, we need to understand what trauma is in the first place. For example, subjective conditions must also be distinguished in addition to objective conditions. A situation is objectively traumatic if the event caused extreme stress for most people, an armed robbery, …

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Loneliness – HOW-TO for coping with lonely holidays

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Loneliness: Being alone is not loneliness For many people, the Christmas and New Year holidays are a time of celebration with the family. Christmas parties at work, baking biscuits during Advent, giving presents on Christmas Eve, family meals on Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and numerous religious celebrations fill hearts with joy. However, when all …

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Childhood Trauma: Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR) – HOW TO

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PMR: What is that? Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is used to reduce anxiety. The technique was introduced by the American doctor Edmund Jacobson in the 1930s. This technique alternates tension and relaxation of all the body’s important muscle groups. In this way, PMR gradually achieves a state of relaxation. With increasing practice, more and more …

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