Tagged With "cptsd"

It doesn’t happen that often anymore, but one place where I almost always get triggered with my Childhood PTSD symptoms is when I visit the doctor. I could never even put this into words before. But now that I’m mostly healed from my Childhood PTSD symptoms, I want to express what I wish my doctors – all the doctors of my life – had understood about the effects of Childhood trauma, about me. Note: This is one of my most personal posts ever. Unless you’re someone who really prefers text, I...

Perhaps a risk worth taking.

Earlier this year I shared one piece of my trauma history with my family doctor... it’s finally out in the open, but I really wish I didn’t have to be the one to start that conversation every time.

Transforming Trauma Podcast: The Blind Spots of Privilege and Complex Trauma in Marginalized Communities Claude Cayemitte, a clinical social worker and NARM Therapist, joins the Transforming Trauma podcast to examine how complex trauma impacts individuals from marginalized communities and how unrecognized cultural trauma can lead to misattunement in the therapeutic relationship. Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model as a foundation, and his own background as a Haitian-American male...

THANK YOU for posting this Dawn! And THANK Joyelle for writing it! SO right on! And I LOVE the patient form and am going to use it with my care providers the next time i see them. I have shared ACEs info with my care providers in the past without being explicit about MY ACEs with them and they seemed interested in the topic but didnt connect ACEs back to me (one said oh that would be useful for the patients at the community clinic and i said yes but it is also useful here with her patients...

@Dawn Daum Thank you for posting this here and sharing with the wider community. I do let mental health practitioners know my ACE score though I don't share the particular answers. And I've sat around while they go on the CDC site to learn about ACEs but this is more direct and time-saving. Also, I love the title. I have my own personal "Don't die early" plan and find it's VERY motivating. The fact is survivors do lose years of life far too often and quality of life as well. It doesn't have...

Thank you for sharing this Dawn. As a public health professional with an ACE score of 4, I have begun trying to bridge the personal and the professional in my work. And that is one reason I appreciate ACEs - I can tell folks I have an ACE score of 4; I don't necessarily need to go into my story depending on the audience and yet it breaks down the barriers of "us vs. them". When talking about ACEs - they affect all of us; there is no "us and them" and the more we can talk freely and openly...

Gail, I appreciate your comment very much. The idea that there is no "them and us" is a message I rely heavily on in conversation, whether it be with clients, peers, or in the trauma-informed work group I lead. And you're right, the beauty of identifying with an ACE score is powerful and feels safe. It takes the risk of re-traumatization and crossing boundaries out of the equation. We, the professionals, don't have to divulge anything more than a number to even the field in conversation with...

Transforming Trauma Episode 015: Post-Traumatic Growth in Communities of Color and NARM in the Classroom with Giancarlo Simpson Transforming Trauma host Sarah Buino and guest Giancarlo A. Simpson, MS, reconnect in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the nationwide protests against racial violence and systemic oppression, providing real-time context to their previously-recorded conversation about NARM’s ability to address complex trauma and support post-traumatic growth in communities of...

Today CPTSD is recognized as needing long-term treatment because of the damages done to a person’s self-identity, deficits in self-regulation and their inability to see there is hope and healing available to them. Fear and hopelessness can be a daily reality for most survivors living with CPTSD symptoms. Therapists choosing to collaborate with patients living with CPTSD symptoms must take the time to receive the education they need to provide trauma-informed care. Additionally, they will...