To take a specific example, a researcher in the Journal of Traumatic Stress interviewed 129 women with documented histories of child sexual abuse that occurred between the ages of 10 months and 12 yea...
Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal)...
PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
Dissociation is the ultimate form of human response to chronic developmental stress, because patients with dissociative disorders report the highest frequency of childhood abuse and/or neglect among a...
No infant starts to speak with a stammer
Trauma is any stressor that occurs in a sudden and forceful way and is experienced as overwhelming.
When you go through a traumatic event, there's a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Because if I am living an honest life, and my eyes are open, and I'm trying my hardest to be good and kind, then anything I'm doing is fine to tell people.
Traumas produce their disintegrating effects in proportion to their intensity, duration and repetition. (1909)