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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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  Broken Places, Part 2

  Posted on July 24, 2013 by admin in PTSD Blog.

  The darkness. The compulsion to die. I couldn’t shake the obsession… no matter what I did.   I prayed. I read the Bible. I ate. I ate more. I got high. And tried to get higher each time I used.   I got numb. I zoned out. For months, my prayers had been short and to the point: “HELP!” […]

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