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Childhood trauma: Understanding emotional dysregulation in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD)

Difficult emotions: understanding emotional dysregulation in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD). All people who have grown up in abuse and neglect have difficulty expressing their feelings. They easily lose their temper, cry uncontrollably and feel out of control, or they shut down and feel cut off from their feelings. Both patterns are examples of emotional […]

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Childhood Trauma: Dissociation in cPTSD

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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Mentalisation

Temperament – definition

Temperament: definition = the predominant type and the individual peculiarity of the course of mental processes. Temperament is an individual pattern of emotional, physical and attentional responses to sights, sounds, smells, tastes, touch, etc., as well as a typical pattern of self-regulation of emotions, behaviour and attention. Temperament: history Since the ancient medicine of Hippocrates

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

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

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

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

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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Childhood trauma – exercises “Half smile” and “Willing Hands”

Taking control of our facial expression by half-smiling and hand positioning by creating a willing hand A great sensory body awareness skill, half-smiling and willing hands, allows us to physically take control of our facial expression and hand positioning. Remember that your body connects to your mind, so by using your face and hands as

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Loneliness – HOW-TO for coping with lonely holidays

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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