Learned Helplessness
Today I thought I’d write a topic on “Learned Helplessness”. I’m aware I still haven’t written the other (informative, helpful) part of ‘Managing Triggers’, but meeh. I don’t care. Also I’m still...
View ArticleChanging your beliefs through affirmations
Regular use of affirmations can change your (unhealthy) beliefs about yourself and your emotions and actions based on those beliefs. This kind of real change has six stages and costs a lot of...
View ArticleAn Aside about suicide [As written in the PTSD workbook -Williams, Poijula]
Many trauma survivors feel suicidal and have suicidal thoughts and plans. Some act out those thoughts when they are particularly stressed and triggered; some act them out on a regular basis. It is...
View ArticleHelping yourself dealing with flashbacks
A flashback is a memory of the past that intrudes into the present and makes the past seem as if it is actually occuring in the here and now: “A sudden, vivid recollection of the traumatic event...
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