Category: Childhood PTSD

If conventional assumptions about (and treatments for) depression were meaningful, we’d be seeing less of it — not more of it — these

PTSD, Complex PTSD, Childhood PTSD — why does it seem like SO many people have it these days? Are people actually experiencing more

The Daily Practice is a pair of techniques, practiced together twice a day, that helped me quickly recover from the debilitating effects of

Even though the abuse and neglect we endured in childhood is long over, the lingering effects can leave us depressed, anxious, negative and

One of the harmful effects of growing up with abuse and neglect, is that we get ALL too good at fitting ourselves to

Official diagnosis with Complex PTSD is a “hypothetical and experimental diagnosis” that for now, is lumped in with standard PTSD. But what’s the

For me, one of the biggest burdens of my past was in my relationship to anger. When I was a kid, the adults

When we’re talking about abuse and neglect in childhood, there’s no way to avoid placing blame on the parents who perpetrated the

Abuse and neglect in childhood can leave a lifelong residue of guilt for things that were never our fault. This same fuzzy thinking

It’s very, very common for people with Childhood PTSD to feel they only know how to attract unavailable and screwed up partners. How

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