Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged trauma, healing, PTSD, child abuse, dissociation, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, infant abuse, child abuse prevention, empathy disorder, attachment disorder, memory, trauma memory, insecure attachment, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder, youth fitness on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a 3-topic information post concerning the abysmal condition of our nation’s young people, presenting more information about BPD, and presenting 4 scanned pages on the history of trauma treatment……
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, healing, PTSD, child abuse, attachment disorders, dissociation, mental illness, recovery, anxiety disorders, genetics, witness abuse, trauma bond, learning, fear, brain development, infant abuse, maltreatment, malevolent world, attachment disorder, violence, sadness, triggers, grief, loss, memory, trauma memory, insecure attachment, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, adult attachment, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder, reactive attachment disorder, trauma altered development TAD on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Infant-Child Severe Maltreatment that happened to me and others – and continues to happen to children around us today – is nothing short of a form of parental-selected genocide that did not fulfill its intent to completely destroy us. (PTSD post part two)
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse, PTSD, child abuse, attachment disorders, dissociation, recovery, anxiety disorders, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, brain development, child abuse prevention, empathy disorder, attachment disorder, violence, boundaries, triggers, trauma memory, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, dissociative identity disorder on November 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Presenting a new descriptive concept that applies specifically to severe infant-child abuse and serious neglect survivors of all ages: Trauma Altered Development (TAD)
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse, PTSD, child abuse, dissociation, mental illness, anxiety disorders, depression, epigenetics, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, brain development, child abuse prevention, benevolent world, attachment disorder, violence, boundaries, trauma memory, insecure attachment, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, adult attachment disorders on November 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Existing models of trauma do not cover what we need to know about how to help infant-abuse survivors life better with a trauma-changed body.
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, bpd, child abuse, child abuse prevention, complex trauma, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, maltreatment, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, witness abuse on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and early severe child abuse survivorship? Trying to squeeze early trauma survivors into ANY of the preexisting boxes created by ‘ordinary’ people to describe ‘ordinary’ people belong — exactly and specifically — TO THEM only, not to US!
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, child abuse, anxiety disorders, depression, genetics, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, trauma bond, fear, brain development, infant abuse, child abuse prevention, attachment disorder, violence, bonding, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Repeated experiences of overwhelming abuse and trauma during our early development create a dissociating self. Patterns of connection between our self and our body could not be ‘ordinary’.
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse, PTSD, child abuse, attachment disorders, dissociation, mental illness, recovery, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, trauma bond, brain development, child abuse prevention, attachment disorder, violence, sadness, triggers, trauma memory, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Suicide victims who were abused as children have clear genetic changes in their brains…” Stuff science tells the Dali Lama — about rats — and us!
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, bonding, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, healing, infant abuse, mothering, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, recovery, trauma, trauma memory, triggers, violence, witness abuse on November 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
How ‘transparent’ can adult survivors of severe child abuse (that changed their developing body-brain-mind) afford to be? Do I let my PTSD and dissociation STOP my writing process?
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse, healing, PTSD, child abuse, attachment disorders, dissociation, mental illness, recovery, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, brain development, infant abuse, child abuse prevention, malevolent world, empathy disorder, attachment disorder, violence, domestic abuse, sadness, bonding, boundaries, triggers, grief, loss, trauma memory, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Crimes against children — Who is protecting them? Also, a new readers’ comment page added at top of blog today.
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Posted in Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse, PTSD, child abuse, attachment disorders, dissociation, mental illness, anxiety disorders, depression, borderline personality disorder, witness abuse, trauma bond, brain development, infant abuse, child abuse prevention, maltreatment, malevolent world, benevolent world, empathy disorder, violence, sadness, bonding, boundaries, loss, trauma memory, mothering, play, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, borderline mother, mean mother, dissociative identity disorder on November 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When trauma is present play is not. Safety and security in infancy and childhood is directly communicated to our growing body through the playfulness or absence of playfulness of our caregivers.
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