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Archive for November, 2009

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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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Crimes against children — Who is protecting them? Also, a new readers’ comment page added at top of blog today.

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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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