Category Archives: PTSD Blog
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What Everyone Who Loves Kids Should Understand about the ACE Study
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.Children experience many kinds of trauma as they grow up. Some traumas are ongoing, such as abuse or illness. Other types of trauma are sudden and singular, like the death of a family member or a natural disaster. Traumas are processed as losses for children: loss of safety, loss of identity, or loss of a […]
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How to Help Prepare Children for Medical Trauma
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.When I was five, my parents took me to the hospital, where my tonsils were removed and I spent the night. Alone. I felt shocked and abandoned when my parents left at the end of visiting hours. But in the sixties visiting hours were visiting hours, and parents went home. Even if their kids were […]
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Tips for Helping Someone with PTSD Defeat Negative Self-Talk
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.Most people who battle PTSD also battle negative self-talk. In fact, according to Dr. Linda Gantt, co-founder of Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown West Virginia, it’s not uncommon for people who hear trauma-related internal voices to be mis-diagnosed with schizophrenia. If you know someone who’s experienced trauma, here are a few tips for helping them […]
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Tips on Managing Flashbacks
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.I am almost 5 years post-intensive PTSD/trauma treatment. Today I am 5 years older and a lot wiser in the ways of trauma and PTSD. Five years ago I just wanted to die. I didn’t care how it happened and had spent years thinking about how best to do that as I tumbled further and further […]
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Trauma: How to Cope with Technological Disasters
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.Several days ago, a crash occurred on the Aurora bridge in Seattle, causing the death of several area college students. The students were passengers on a Ride the Ducks tour vehicle that reportedly may have undergone a mechanical failure and veered into the path of an oncoming bus. Technological disasters are just one of […]
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Big T and Little T Trauma–It’s Everywhere
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.This past weekend I was blessed to have brunch with four of my former students. We’ve remained close for more than twenty years. As conversation progressed, it became obvious that each one of them had a relationship with trauma and PTSD through their painful life experiences. ALL of us experience events that overwhelm our ability to […]
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Prenatal Trauma
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.I was surprised when I began my trauma treatment and learned that the therapy approach used at Intensive Trauma Therapy in Morgantown, West Virginia, treats an individual’s earliest traumas. One foundational component of the Instinctual Trauma Response Model (ITR) is based on the concept that significant life traumas can take place in the womb. This […]
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Stroke and PTSD: The 25% Factor
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.Yesterday I met a friend for coffee, although we didn’t know each other well. We met to discuss our strokes–hers hemorrhagic and mine a brain stem stroke. Both of our strokes struck suddenly last year. By the time we left the coffee shop after a 90 minute conversation, we knew one another extremely well. […]
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Why I Share My PTSD Story
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.Like some people, at times I’ve thought that my PTSD story isn’t legitimate enough or dramatic enough to be told. Because I consult in the area of PTSD, I’ve sometimes made the mistake of comparing my experiences to other people’s. My sexual abuse came at the hands of strangers. I’ve suffered ongoing medical trauma as […]
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In the Freeze? 3 Ways to Get Back on the Road to Trauma Recovery
Posted on by admin in PTSD Blog.I am 4.5 years post-PTSD treatment. Within days of my arrival at intensive Trauma Therapy my life changed. A lot. For the first time in 40 years I slept. This was an almost immediate change once I began to chip away at the lies that accompany trauma. As I went through treatment, things rapidly […]
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