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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...

I've read that most people who were abused, such as people with CPTSD, do not become abusive. However, most people who are abusive were themselves abused. That issue is apparently most of why abuse is passed down through generations. I don't want to ever say that someone who's turned to...

Please be careful not to excuse her behavior because of past trauma.

I think that the overlap in symptoms makes it difficult. Some might be because overwhelmed brains use the same defense mechanisms for different sources of overwhelmingness sometimes. "Dissociation" and "shutdowns" for instance... lots of overlap in how people describe these; could be using the...

One note: scientific methods can never ever actually *prove* anything, only *support* or *disprove*. That being said, I wish Levine had more "supporting* documentation in his work. I think he could have found studies that could have supported many pieces of his ideas; I view his books as a very...

Very, very different culture on the German trains! :-) Not expecting the world to conform to one's internal needs (including PTSD stuff) is reasonable in many cases and one does have to work hard at that, lots of responsibility issues. However there are also a lot of abusive or otherwise...

It can be very blatantly a dominance display and cause problems for other people on the subway or wherever. When several people are having to stand while the train sways around, while said male takes up space that could hold several polite, more self-contained people -- with his arms out on the...

It can also be something that a person was born with, as a neurological difference; many autistic people have this, but having it doesn't mean a person definitely is autistic.

It is definitely strange that the T is saying your partner will hurt you, that he's using the past tense about your partner... This would be strange and not competent for a T, but is it possible the T is confusing parts of your situation and history with another patient's...? Does he mix things...

I hope you will try writing down some of the emotional memories in a journal, for sharing with the T during your session! Even just a little test at first, see what the response is, slowly figure out how to improve this communication type, and try working to improve that with the T. If you...

Hello DogwoodTree. What I'm writing uses ideas from other people's work, only recently trying to apply it to myself, and this is a pretty slow process. I hope something in here is helpful to you. Tony Attwood in Australia is one of the recent folks doing great research on female autism and his...

This is awful, I'm so sorry. There are other really good therapists out there, and you deserve one! There must be some serious health issue for him if they won't even let him see clients to slowly end with folks more appropriately, because they all know it's really important. At least...

@aut555, perhaps part of your mind felt that you needed to avoid those feelings for survival? Our brains have amazing mechanisms to help us survive, and that part doesn't really listen to our cognitions, it's underneath them imho. However if you can notice what you're doing, maybe you're...

Definitely! Taking good care of yourself, working to get healthier and as far as possible from the abuse, will help your child too. Your child could then understand later in life that they are worthy of protection, and you value them enough to keep fighting. Helping yourself be healthy is also a...

The baby would be the next target, with no protector. Abusive people always want a target and will look for a vulnerable being, the abuse seems to be part of what they do to deal with their own internal hell, so until they deal with their own stuff (very rare) they "need" a target. The baby...

Some people seem to put the ability to always be on time, outside our issues. The assumption seems to be that everyone is a fine, "normal" adult, who should *just do* the "basic" adult things, then come into whatever therapy sessions and once there, somehow turn on all our problems only then...

@Knak, there are a lot of possible reasons for a change around the age of 9 other than vaccines... trauma around that age, for instance, or earlier trauma that affects one differently as kids around you start learning new ways to socialize. Kids with ASD (autism spectrum disorders, the latest...

There are better ones, people are right. Lots of better ones! Finding one can be hard, but I feel like you took a good approach in being up front; you understand trust better than that therapist did. Please keep searching.:hug:

Just because something *could* theoretcially have been manufactured towards the ends the movie clip's fictional characters desire, doesn't mean it *has* been. In my country, owners of media tend to be fossil fuel moguls, the organic food farmers just somehow aren't doing the same...

This being a PTSD site, a thought: many immigrants to many countries recently are refugees; many have trauma issues but won't have the resources (computer access, common language) to get onto a site like this. How can we support such people, for those of use who want to? Even if it's just a tiny...

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...

I've spent the last few months trying to begin to start to initially even understand this all... but autism (with no appropriate help ever) of different "flavors" is the first thing that had ever explained many behaviors and issues with my father, mother, brother, and I guess me too. Different...

She is just so wrong; the statement she makes about 'you have a choice, fight, take flight, or freeze' (or use her magic spell...) She really doesn't understand the brain. The old reflexes aren't under conscious control -- thus the need to work on feeling safe, relaxation, breathing etc..., she...

I find grooming horses (and cats) to be very calming for myself. There is some technique so if you can ask the riding center folks to show you on a gentle horse, and just do that regularly for a while, you might start to have a sense of reciprocal communication with the horse. Some websites...

I took a 12-week session with someone who had done training with Van der Kolk's group. The phrasing was simiilar to what @jedijackie mentions, which I found helpful. I would like to do more of it, or even just regular classes with that instructor, I find her energy very soothing. (I guess I'm...