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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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  YOUR TRAUMA STORIES

  Posted on July 29, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

    Have you had a traumatic experience that’s left you struggling to cope in certain areas of life? Have you been robbed? Physically or sexually abused? Been the victim of domestic violence? Have you watched your house burn, witnessed a tragic accident, or  experienced medical trauma or near-death experience? Have you endured the pain of abandonment or neglect? Have […]

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  Broken Places. A View From the Other Side. (Part 4 of 5)

  Posted on July 26, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  By Shelly Beach   I was living in Michigan. Wanda was living somewhere in California–I had no idea where. And in that first phone conversation, she wasn’t ready to tell me.   The only thing I knew for sure was that she wanted to die. And she had a plan to carry it out. Several […]

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  Broken Places: A View from the Other Side, Part 2

  Posted on May 7, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  By Shelly Beach I was living in Michigan. Wanda was living somewhere in California–I had no idea where. And in that first phone conversation, she wasn’t ready to tell me. The only thing I knew for sure was that she wanted to die. And she had a plan to carry it out. Several plans, in […]

  Post Tagged with coping mechanisms, flashbacks and PTSD, Instinctual Trauma Response Model, Intensive Trauma Therapy, isolation and PTSD, nightmares, ptsd, suicide, trauma
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