DESTRUCTIVE PEOPLE: Does CPTSD Make It Hard for You to Spot Them?
June 4, 2019
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Detecting who is safe and supportive — and who is NOT — is a level of discernment that can be damaged by past abuse, neglect
Category: Relationships with Others
Did Childhood PTSD Teach You To FIT Yourself to CRAP?
April 25, 2019
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One of the harmful effects of growing up with abuse and neglect, is that we get ALL too good at fitting ourselves to unacceptable people
Childhood PTSD and BLAME: How Much Is Too Much?
April 1, 2019
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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 or
Chemical Imbalance, Or Just Childhood PTSD?
February 25, 2019
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Millions of people — more than 1 in 7 in the U.S alone — are taking psychiatric drugs for depression and anxiety. It’s not clear,
CPTSD: Four Discoveries That Revolutionized Treatment
February 14, 2019
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Now that we know adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can cause neurological changes, the old, mostly psychological approaches to treating CPTSD are making way for newer,
CPTSD and The Attraction to Unavailable People: Video Excerpt From New Course (Part 1)
February 4, 2019
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Last fall I surveyed followers of the Crappy Childhood Fairy to ask what topics I should be sure to cover in my new course on
Are You RE-Traumatizing Yourself? 16 Self-Defeating Behaviors Common with Childhood PTSD
April 16, 2019
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Part of the damage from abuse and neglect in childhood is what actually happened when we were kids. But a significant part of the problem
How To Stay (Mostly) Sane When Family Visits Make You Crazy
November 16, 2018
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Yay! The holidays are here and everywhere, people with some level of Childhood PTSD are facing the prospect of returning home. Let’s say you’ve escaped
Growing Up “Hippie Poor” vs. “Hillbilly Poor”:
March 12, 2018
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Recently I finished J.D. Vance’s excellent Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, a book that’s part sociological analysis about poor