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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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  Tips on Managing Flashbacks

  Posted on October 7, 2015 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  I am almost 5 years post-intensive PTSD/trauma treatment. Today I am 5 years older and a lot wiser in the ways of trauma and PTSD. Five years ago I just wanted to die. I didn’t care how it happened and had spent years thinking about how best to do that as I tumbled further and further […]

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  Tips for Accessing and Creating Trauma-Informed Care

  Posted on April 14, 2015 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  A few weeks ago I was seen as a patient at an internationally-known medical center. I’d been referred there for a diagnosis for the lesion in my brain stem. Seconds after he entered the door, my neurologist hit me with a gattling gun of questions: minute details of my medical history from fifteen years ago, when […]

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  Tips for Managing Medical Triggers

  Posted on January 11, 2015 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  Just before Christmas, I was diagnosed with glioma, located near my brain stem. I was scheduled for brain surgery five days later. Brain surgery to biopsy an “inoperable” tumor near my brain stem was not my idea of a fun way to spend my holiday. But I kept my focus positive and looked at the […]

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  Grounding Techniques: Helping People with PTSD Stay in the Here-and-Now

  Posted on November 6, 2014 by admin in PTSD Blog, Uncategorized.

  Several months ago, I accompanied my good friend Wanda for an eye exam. During the procedure, the doctor shined very bright lights into her eyes. In one second, the adult Wanda “went away.” The lights triggered a trauma response rooted in an unknown event in her past. The trigger was one Wanda had never experienced […]

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