Wounded soul: when the body becomes a stage for pain. I. Introduction. Moods affect not only how we feel, but also how we perceive the world and ourselves. For many who have experienced childhood trauma, self-perception means a constant struggle with a negative self-image and body-image. Childhood trauma can significantly affect a person’s self and …
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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. 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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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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 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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