Category: Mental Health
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Invisible Struggles
Today has been a really rough day. Not just all the normal crap that happens on a daily basis. It just felt like one of those days where it felt like the world wanted to punch you in the gut repeatedly. I have PTSD from multiple traumatic events making it a complex PTSD. Sometimes no…
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Fearlessly Vulnerable
Letting go of fear is much more difficult than the words alone. Fear can squeeze into all different corners such as fear of rejection, fear of being abandoned, fear of letting someone down, and fear of heights. In many cases, some about of fear is healthy, because it helps keep us safe. When fear becomes…
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The Impact of Trauma on Safety and Healing
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, safety is the most important. Safety refers to both the physical and emotional safety of a person. When someone goes through trauma, their safety is shattered. The threat of life and death along with the broken emotional safety, is in both that moment and the aftermath of the event. Of…
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Trauma: Seeking help for PTSD
Trauma comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There is no one standard for what a traumatic event is for everyone. People are all different and have different points of view on any given situation. There might be something that one person finds traumatic such as being in a car accident whereas for someone…