Those who experience severe trauma (including, of course, childhood trauma) and develop significant and chronic symptoms as a result (e.g. alcoholism, drug abuse or severe psychiatric conditions such as anxiety, complex PTSD and PTSD) may, in turn, traumatize their … Read the rest
Transgenerational Trauma : How Effects Of Trauma Are Passed Down Generations
BPD, The Love-Hate Relationship And Neuroscience
BPD, The Love-Hate Relationship And Neuroscience
We have seen from several other articles that I have published on this site that one of the hallmarks of borderline personality disorder is the tendency of sufferers of this devastating psychiatric condition to … Read the rest
Attitudes Of Medical Professionals Towards BPD Sufferers
We have seen from other articles I have published on this site that if we suffered significant and protracted childhood trauma we are, as adults, at increased risk of developing borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Many specialists in the … Read the rest
Posttraumatic Growth : Trauma, The Brain, Dissociation And Creativity
‘How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?’ – Virginia Wolfe.
I have written elsewhere on this site in several previously published posts how, ultimately, even extremely serious and … Read the rest
Reframing The Past : How To Reframe Traumatic Memories
THE INDOCTRINATION OF NEGATIVE CORE BELIEFS :
Many of us who have experienced significant and protracted childhood trauma have, as adults, suffered from the inadvertent internalization of our parents’ (or caretakers’) attitude and feelings towards us as we were growing … Read the rest
Possible Adverse Effects Of Maternal Stress On The Unborn Baby’s Brain Development.
A study carried out by Sarkar et al. at Imperial College, University of London and published in the scientific journal Clinical Endocrinology suggests that, if a mother is highly stressed during pregnancy, her consequent excessive production of stress hormones may … Read the rest
How Parents’ Anxiety Levels And Behaviors Affect Their Child’s Anxiety
A study involving 98 pairs of mothers and infants (the infants were aged from 12 months to 14 months) was carried out to investigate how the level of the mother’s stress affected the level of the infant’s stress (as measured … Read the rest
Is Your Predominant Response To Trauma Flooding Or Dissociation?
We have seen from previous articles that I have published on this site that individuals can physiologically respond to severe and chronic trauma in two opposing manners: by becoming FLOODED (hyper-aroused and over-reactive) or by becoming DISSOCIATED (hypo-aroused and … Read the rest
Why Rejection Is So Painful : An Evolutionary Explanation.
Due to the forces of evolution, our brains have developed, first and foremost, to keep us alive, irrespective of whether the emotions that drive us to do cause us pleasure or pain; in this sense, the process of evolution is … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma And Its Link To Adult Chronic Pain.
DISCLAIMER: NEVER ASSUME PAIN IS DUE TO PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES – ALWAYS CONSULT AN APPROPRIATELY QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL TO HAVE ITS CAUSE PROPERLY INVESTIGATED.
The rehabilitation specialist, Dr John Sarno (Rusk Institute for Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University, theorized that a significant … Read the rest
Maternal Reinforcement Of Passive Dependency In Future BPD Sufferers
When I was young, my mother seemed to derive an odd sense of satisfaction (one hesitates to use the word ‘pleasure’) from my emotional distress. At such times, I see now, her fundamental motivation to comfort me (by talking to … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma Leading To Psychotic And Immature Defense Mechanisms
According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the unconscious defence mechanisms we employ to help us deal with stress can be split into four main types; these are :
- psychotic defence mechanisms.
- immature defence mechanisms.
The Freeze Response To Trauma And Polyvagal Theory
It is well known that our body’s self-protective response to imminent danger and threat (whether perceived or real) is to enter a state of ‘fight’ or ‘flight.’ However, what is perhaps slightly less well known is there is a … Read the rest
Childhood Trauma : Some Important Facts And Statistics
Many of these live with chronic, perpetual and relentless trauma (e.g. living in a family in which there is ongoing abuse) thus denying the child periods of time for recovery between events (which can lead to complex posttraumatic stress disorder … Read the rest
Effects Of Interpersonal Childhood Trauma On Sexuality
According to the traumagenic dynamics model (Finkelhor and Browne), severe and protracted childhood interpersonal childhood trauma (interpersonal trauma refers to types of trauma that occur between the child and significant others e,g, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and … Read the rest