Is It Love… Or Is It LIMERENCE?
September 22, 2023
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If you have strong romantic feelings for someone who is unavailable (or just not into you), and you find it almost impossible to stop thinking
Category: Relationships with Others
Brain Dysregulation from Childhood PTSD: Is There Anything GOOD About It?
August 23, 2019
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When we talk about the possible lifelong effects of Childhood PTSD (my own term for Complex PTSD originating from early abuse and neglect), we’re usually
CPTSD: How to Keep Your Brain and Emotions Regulated in a Relationship
August 15, 2019
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Just like other people, most of us who grew up with childhood trauma want to be, or are in, a loving partnership or marriage. My
CPTSD and Emotional Flashbacks
June 13, 2019
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Most people are familiar with PTSD flashbacks — the kind we associate with combat veterans who are haunted by a war memory. With Chronic PTSD
TOUGH LOVE Truths For Healing CPTSD
May 30, 2019
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For people with Childhood PTSD and CPTSD, there are a lot of treatments out there. Sometimes no matter what we do or how hard we
This is How It FEELS When Your Brain is Dysregulated from CPTSD
May 28, 2019
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Everyone’s brain and emotions get dysregulated sometimes, and almost everyone is able to eventually re-regulate. But if you grew up with abuse, neglect or other
Why Does It Suddenly Seem Like EVERYONE Has PTSD?
May 13, 2019
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PTSD, Complex PTSD, Childhood PTSD — why does it seem like SO many people have it these days? Are people actually experiencing more trauma in
How to FEEL HAPPIER When Childhood PTSD is Holding You Down
May 6, 2019
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Even though the abuse and neglect we endured in childhood is long over, the lingering effects can leave us depressed, anxious, negative and disempowered —
CPTSD, PTSD, Childhood PTSD and ACEs: What’s the Difference?
April 10, 2019
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Official diagnosis with Complex PTSD is a “hypothetical and experimental diagnosis” that for now, is lumped in with standard PTSD. But what’s the difference? And
Childhood PTSD and ANGER: Is it Ever a GOOD Thing?
April 4, 2019
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For me, one of the biggest burdens of my past was in my relationship to anger. When I was a kid, the adults in my