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This article goes into a number of consequences of climate change and their links to PTSD and other issues. Flooding, drought, heat-related aggression, forced migration, and other human responses to natural disasters linked to climate change are covered, with real examples. The examples are from...

Brain biology! Eventually I will learn this anatomy stuff... "Autism spectrum disorders" (ASD) can include many changes: amygdala size increases, large cortisol reactions to stress, difficulty understanding one's own emotions, fight-or-flight nervous system responses to loud noises or even...

Dead Link Removed The blind woman who switched personalities and could suddenly see BySarahKaplanNovember24at4:48AM "One explanation, that B.T. was “malingering,” or lying about her disability, was disproved by an EEG test. When B.T. was in her two blind states, her brain showed none of the...

Does anyone have ideas and/or experience in communicating with physical therapists or similar folks about trauma-related issues, especially when dissociation sorts of issues might be slowing down one's ability to relax and make "normal" progress? I have been working with a great person and find...

Hello -- I'm hoping that it's ok to repost abstracts... if not, the link is: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26191438 This is from a highly rated journal. Two crucial sentences from the abstract for me: "The over-optimistic claims for the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT)...

This is an interesting new analysis showing activity changes in differing brain regions for people with ptsd from different general categories of trauma: combat-related, childhood physical/sexual abuse, and natural disasters. Different neural modifications underpin PTSD after different...

The title I wrote is strange, but I think I'm having trouble believing my own experience for long, when talking to medical folks and other times. It's like the world with those experiences can't be true, or it doesn't feel safe for me to say it's true, when talking about physical issues in...

This has been a difficult week... my husband has finally moved out, at least partially (still more stuff to get). He had been getting more manipulative and edged over into being emotionally abusive as time went on, until some inner part of me finally had enough... took a long time but is finally...

So, I have a fairly new therapist, and she had to cancel next week because of child care issues. This seems to have raised all sorts of issues for part of me... She said that she could work me in if it's "urgent". What the heck does that mean??? (We've never discussed it in the 2 months I've...

I've been having a lot of trouble with my husband over the last few years... While I'm not a professional and can't diagnose, his patterns seem to fit in with some personality disorders, partly paranoid and partly schizotypal, if I were to guess. He treated me well and worked early on, only to...

I've been getting physical therapy (PT) and massage for a number of months. I think I've had loads of muscle tension for decades, but a combination of ignoring it and exercising to reduce it was pretty much my strategy -- and none of it caused actual physical problems. Last summer and autumn...

I have been in therapy with the same person for quite a while... Hard to guess a date but maybe 8 years? For quite a while most of the stuff I was working on had more to do with trying to have a life than specifically dealing with trauma stuff. I had already spent maybe 10 years working on...