What happens when infant-childhood trauma survivors can never physiologically feel safe and secure? How much can we learn to consciously influence the anxiety response process?
Archive for February, 2010
+TRAUMA TELLS THE BODY WHAT TO DO
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, maltreatment, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, triggers on February 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
+NIGHTMARE OF BREAST CANCER – MY HUMBLE WRITINGS
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, herceptin treatment, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma bond, triggers on February 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I am posting the link to the pages I wrote shortly after the worst of my breast cancer treatment. My hope is that there is something in these humble pages that might help someone else.
+SOME MORE WORDS SENT BY MY FRIEND
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, bonding, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mean mother, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma bond, trauma memory, triggers, violence, witness abuse on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Some more words I am pondering, sent to me by my friend (and some BPD links)
+GIFTED WITH A POEM TODAY: “STAYING ALIVE”
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A poem found and saved by Dorothy, my Alaskan homesteading neighbor friend, for 45 years — sent to me today, posted here for you: “Staying Alive.”
+WATCHING WHOLENESS AND HAPPINESS HAPPEN
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma, trauma bond, trauma memory, triggers, violence, witness abuse on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The more we can understand how infant-childhood trauma changed our physiological development, the more we can get on with the WHOLE business of healing: What 2 musical children showed me about happiness.
+WHAT I HAVE TO SAY TODAY ABOUT DISSOCIATION
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, adult attachment disorders, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, depersonalization, depression, derealization, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, malevolent world, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, trauma triggers on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
How different ‘mental health’ and ‘mental illness’ (including dissociation, depersonalization and derealization) would look if ONLY severe infant-child abuse survivors could define it!
+RESEARCH ON ISOLATION – ANOTHER STUPID SCIENCE AWARD
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory on February 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Research on isolation: Another example of stupid science!
+POWER OF SOUND FOR HEALING OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM-BRAIN
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mental illness, music therapy, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, sound therapy, trauma, triggers on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
How much vicious screaming, yelling and shouting did you hear from before the time you were old enough to begin to know what words were? How much terrifying noise was directed at YOU?
+CONSCIOUS AWARENESS AND EMOTIONAL AROUSAL REGULATION
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, borrowed attachment, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, earned secure attachment, empathy disorder, epigenetics, maltreatment, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma bond, trauma memory, triggers, violence, witness abuse on February 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Emotions, regulation, and consciousness: At the same time I can mourn for who I could have become if I had not been so traumatized as an infant-child, I can also celebrate that I did not lose the wonderful abilities that I DO have even though I survived such trauma.
+INFO ON WINDOWS OF EMOTIONAL TOLERANCE
Posted in borderline mother, Trauma and Its Consequences, tagged abuse, anxiety disorders, attachment disorder, borderline mother, borderline personality disorder, brain development, child abuse, child abuse prevention, depression, disorganized disoriented insecure attachment, dissociation, dissociative identity disorder, empathy disorder, infant abuse, mean mother, mental illness, posttraumatic stress disorder, PTSD, trauma memory, triggers, violence, witness abuse on February 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our emotions are our internal guidance system — and early abuse changes our Windows of Tolerance for them, and how we react to them in our body.
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