
DESTRUCTIVE PEOPLE: Does CPTSD Make It Hard for You to Spot Them?
Detecting who is safe and supportive — and who is NOT — is a level of discernment that can be damaged by past abuse, neglect
Detecting who is safe and supportive — and who is NOT — is a level of discernment that can be damaged by past abuse, neglect
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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