I’ve mentioned the Father’s Day rap that I wrote and performed which helped me master my rage flashbacks. It still serves as a great example of what creativity can do for our healing. But something never occurred to me until writing Anger and the Fight Response. That painful flashback year was acting as shock therapy …
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No one likes uncomfortable emotions, such as anger, sadness, fear, and shame. In the CPTSD community, we tend to experience one of “Trauma’s Big Four” more often than the others and use it to define us. Having a lot of anger gets translated into “I’m such an angry person!” Or conversely fear, “I’m scared of …
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I’ve mentioned the value of the cognition sheet several times before. It’s listed in Master Toolbox 1 twice: both as a tool for alexithymia and again for transference. (Both underlined terms are in Trauma Glossary 2.) I even included it as a troubleshooting tool for working with our Broca’s Area (Trauma Glossary 3 under parts of …
The Cognition Sheet: More Reasons it’s an Important Tool Read More »
The internet gaslighters would lead us to believe that borderline personality disorder is just another form of PTSD. They back it up with visual aids highlighting this argument. The most famous one being “Complex-PTSD vs. BPD”. Its blue and lavender circles merge into a long purple oval where all the similarities merge. It looks legit. …
Complex-PTSD vs. BPD: The Truth without the Gaslighting Read More »
This is from my history comic: Debunking the Spin Doctors with George Washington. It’s mainly for those of whom English is not your first language. Where I did NOT offer the full translation in captions, I am doing that here, just for you, dear reader. Also available for anyone who needs a visual guide for …
Golden Womb Entitlement Thinking in Visual Aids Read More »
In this history comic, I finally get to show you why George Washington is my historical role model. He was a great man who achieved great things with his life, despite being raised by a Cluster B mother. You won’t find this spoon fed in any biography or documentary, however. For one thing, historians are …
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