trauma
At its core, trauma can be thought of as the psychological wounds that persist, even when the physical ones are long gone.
Abuse is Oftentimes Misdiagnosed
By Dr Kathy Lacina After 25 years of working with children and adults who have been sexually abused, I am still appalled at what children suffer at the hands of their parents. How can parents inflict such horrendous acts on their own children? The saddest thing I hear from these clients is the belief that they must have done something wrong to be treated that way. ALL of them blame themselves and consider themselves to be bad, terrible, or disgusting people which is further from the truth.
By Kathleen Pfaff6 years ago in Psyche
Illuminating Narcissism
If you’ve been in a relationship with a person who suffers from narcissist personality disorder then more likely than not you’ve experienced the discard stage of the relationship. If you’ve not quite hit that point, please know that this is part of the disorder. They discard because their mentality is always that the grass is always greener on the other side.
By Angela Fosnaugh6 years ago in Psyche
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems. What the heck is she talking about?! I have been in therapy off and on for years for one reason or another: custody battle between my grandparents and my mother, incest, abuse, sexual dysfunction, trauma therapy, etc. In my most recent therapy trip, I’ve been dealing with trauma. This trauma has impacted my life in many ways - primarily my marriage - but I’ve also seen it rear its head in my employment, in school, in friendships… pretty much anywhere I am, my trauma follows me and rears its ugly head when least expected and certainly when least welcome.
By Gwenaviere Laine6 years ago in Psyche
Trauma and Drug Addiction
We often do not realize that trauma sets off things in our life that we simple do not anticipate. Rather that be feelings, emotions, events, endings, trauma is the one unexpected visitor that we never can anticipate. We look at our community now and a lot of the youth and adults are addicted to some type of drug. But where does this all start? Is it the constant bickering between parents that causes the child to search for an escape or the neglectful parenting that makes one run to another source for just .... anything? Could he be the young girl who was placed in a custody battle but ended up with the wrong parent? I mean I could go on, a lot of times we talk about the drugs in communities but we don’t associate the trauma.
By EnlightenedMindzSpeak6 years ago in Psyche
Beau Button
This is the story of Beau Button, well, Beau Fairchild, but nobody remembers his official surname. After years of being referred to as ‘Button’, why would they? It’s a simple story, no twists, no turns, no dramatic pauses, just a straight, narrow road that leads to now.
By Bella Higgins6 years ago in Psyche
Don't speak.
At the time, I thought it was alright. I thought I was the one for you as you to me. Then my worst nightmare happened. My world went from bright to dark over a course of 4 years. I never believed you would actually hurt me until one day you looked at me as if I were nothing to you... The look in your eyes scared me and when I ran you grabbed me and asked "Where are you going?" and I passed out. That's how hard you hit me. The next day at school you acted like nothing happened but how can I? How am I able to just smile and be fine with knowing you hit me and constantly thinking when it's going to happen again. I was so scared and eventually it was like clockwork being with you. I wrote down in my diary how often you would hit me and honestly it could make a book along with a sequel.
By Lexi Nicole6 years ago in Psyche
