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  How Do People with PTSD Feel?

  Posted on October 3, 2017 by admin in Uncategorized.

  How Do People with PTSD Feel? Shelly Beach & Wanda Sanchez PTSDPerspectives ©2017   Having PTSD makes you feel like never you’re never safe. Having PTSD makes you want to hide any time anyone looks at you. You want to live in the dark, be invisible, and protect yourself from being noticed, because if you’re noticed, […]

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  Trauma Triggers (part 2)

  Posted on March 22, 2017 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  In the months following treatment for PTSD, I had a series of trigger failures. I hadn’t yet figured out how to stop my triggers from sending me into a downward spiral. I was exhausted trying to figure it all out. It was at this point that I knew I had to make a choice: confront […]

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  Trauma Triggers (Part 1)

  Posted on February 20, 2017 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Triggers suck. There, I said it. Granted, that’s probably not the most eloquent way to start a blog post. But it is the most honest I can be about the way it feels to stumble around a psychological minefield of trauma triggers, hoping and praying that one doesn’t go off. In my journey of learning […]

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  There’s No T or D in PTSD

  Posted on July 5, 2016 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Lynn’s nightmares woke her in terror every night until she was forty-eight years old. Even after highly successful trauma treatment a number of years ago, she still has trouble sleeping. Although her nightmares are gone, she still sometimes fights anxiety and insomnia. Her body kicks and flails in her sleep as she fights inner battles. […]

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  Trauma Therapy: Five Days to a New Me–For Real

  Posted on January 8, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Most people tend of think of people with post-traumatic stress disorder as veterans or Katrina victims. The general population doesn’t know that one in four women will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in her lifetime. When you’re sitting in a restaurant, ball game, church service, or business meeting, if every eighth person stood up, that’s […]

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  Trauma Impacts Children

  Posted on July 31, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  by Dr. Beth Robinson Building a relationship with a traumatized child will require a great investment of love and time. Frequently foster parents and adoptive parents believe that they can bring children into their home and erase the impact of their previous lives and trauma.  The overwhelming majority of foster and adoptive children have experienced trauma. Today […]

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