Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers
282 episodes - English - Latest episode: 26 days ago - ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPeer-review and irreverent dark humor meet relational trauma recovery, without the "enforced bright sides." Let's talk about the complicated experience of rectifying a life built on trauma and relearning to be human... more healthily than those shitheads who raised you. You aren't alone, damaged, doomed, or dead yet. But with all the grit and gumption necessary to keep growing, you might be a real MF.
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4. Filial obligation and family re-immersion | AKA - the family system trap
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe time comes for all of us; the family call to duty. And then what. We know it's going to trigger unwanted trauma reactions. But resisting often feels futile, immoral, and socially-punishing. Let's talk about the dangers of family re-immersion for a healing trauma brain and what we can do to protect ourselves before the filial phonecalls start. Related eps: filial obligation and entrapment series, family brain hijinx series, fawning series, brain operations series, social psychology ep
2.4. Filial obligation and family re-immersion | AKA - the family system trap
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBThe time comes for all of us; the family call to duty. And then what. We know it's going to trigger unwanted trauma reactions. But resisting often feels futile, immoral, and socially-punishing. Let's talk about the dangers of family re-immersion for a healing trauma brain and what we can do to protect ourselves before the filial phonecalls start. Related eps: filial obligation and entrapment series, family brain hijinx series, fawning series, brain operations series, social psychology ep ...
2.3. “Perspective” | AKA - gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBPerspective; A word with many meanings, depending on who's speaking it. Namely, the bane of, "that's just ONE perspective." Let's talk about the real definition of the word, how it pertains to post-traumatic stress development, where attention vs. willful ignorance comes into play, and how no one can ever have your irreplicable perspective. Trust your guts, Fuckers. You know where you've been. Related eps: perspective series, time distortions series, covert abuse series, family brain hiji...
3. “Perspective” | AKA - gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 18 minutes - 17.2 MBPerspective; A word with many meanings, depending on who's speaking it. Namely, the bane of, "that's just ONE perspective." Let's talk about the real definition of the word, how it pertains to post-traumatic stress development, where attention vs. willful ignorance comes into play, and how no one can ever have your irreplicable perspective. Trust your guts, Fuckers. You know where you've been. Related eps: perspective series, time distortions series, covert abuse series, family brain hiji...
2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA - current cult.ural triggerings
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBHave you been struggling to make meaningful progress? Well, these global events don't help. Especially when they feel so... family-iar... to our trauma brains. Let's talk about the semi-accepted phases of trauma recovery - destabilization, processing, and integration. And how societal systems keep bringing us back to square one. Related eps: "the rat cage" societal trauma series, refind yer Self series, inner work series
2.2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA - current cult.ural triggerings
December 20, 2022 17:25 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBHave you been struggling to make meaningful progress? Well, these global events don't help. Especially when they feel so... family-iar... to our trauma brains. Let's talk about the semi-accepted phases of trauma recovery - destabilization, processing, and integration. And how societal systems keep bringing us back to square one. Related eps: "the rat cage" societal trauma series, refind yer Self series, inner work series --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show...
2.1. “Not bad enough to be trauma” | AKA - the aftermath is what matters
December 20, 2022 17:24 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBEver doubt that "it was significant enough to count as t-word"? Well, the key word is significance. Let's break this down simply and talk about what really creates PTSD; our brains' subjective experience of fear and the meaning we give events (and ourselves) in the aftermath. Related eps: filial obligation and entrapment series, perspective series --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/complextrauma/message Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
1. “Not bad enough to be trauma” | AKA - the aftermath is what matters
December 20, 2022 17:24 - 17 minutes - 16.1 MBEver doubt that "it was significant enough to count as t-word"? Well, the key word is significance. Let's break this down simply and talk about what really creates PTSD; our brains' subjective experience of fear and the meaning we give events (and ourselves) in the aftermath. Related eps: filial obligation and entrapment series, perspective series
Intro to Season Two
December 20, 2022 17:24 - 7 minutes - 6.86 MBWe're back! Let's wrap up a year of in-depth trauma research and community insights with a new season. Free holiday support Discord server: https://discord.gg/5AYuCuQRhn Public holiday episodes (browse or search "holiday"): patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers Full episode guide: https://www.t-mfrs.com/epguide Ho-ho-ho, Motherfucker. I'll see you there.
22. Obligation & Reparenting in Relationships
August 03, 2022 08:22 - 17 minutes - 16 MBFawners, Fixers, White Knights, and Chronic Caregivers... gather round. How about those early-childhood patterns defining entire lifetimes, huh? Today, let's talk about Filial Obligation and Anxiety - the pressures put on us to always serve, soothe, and surrender to our family's needs. Especially, with "PTSD Parents" of a certain age or declining health status. Nothing like ripping open (purposely forgotten) childhood wounds. AND, let's not fail to mention the ways those behavioral relationsh...
22. Filial Obligation & Caregiving Anxiety... In All Yer Shitty Relationships.
August 03, 2022 08:22 - 17 minutes - 16 MBFawners, Fixers, White Knights, and Chronic Caregivers... gather round. How about those early-childhood patterns defining entire lifetimes, huh? Today, let's talk about Filial Obligation and Anxiety - the pressures put on us to always serve, soothe, and surrender to our family's needs. Especially, with "PTSD Parents" of a certain age or declining health status. Nothing like ripping open (purposely forgotten) childhood wounds. AND, let's not fail to mention the ways those behavioral relationsh...
21. Escape Trauma-Brain Refind Your Self
July 27, 2022 09:23 - 26 minutes - 24.8 MBAnxiety and fear at all-time highs. Obsessive thoughts. Depressive outlooks. And trauma-brains taking back too much control, even after years of recovery... "What a time to be alive! Live laugh love." we've all proclaimed for the past year. And with things only ever getting more chaotic and therefore brain-demanding... Seems like we all need a little vacation from these terror-filled heads before they splinter and sink us. So let's talk about the greatest tool we have for surviving traumat...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Self-Editing and Achievement
July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes - 22 MBTranscript: https://www.t-mfrs.com/post/20-life-on-abuse-intro-to-yermfjess "Brains develop cellular connections based on reinforcement and punishment. When a brain cannot receive reinforcements for its normal behaviors, it learns new ones. When that is a pervasive experience, being socially punished for the ways it functions, it learns to constantly edit the ways it’s allowed to “perform”. This leads to an ongoing sense of fear and uncertainty that needs to be dispelled with social reassura...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Meet YerMFJess
July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes - 22 MBTranscript: https://www.t-mfrs.com/post/20-life-on-abuse-intro-to-yermfjess "Brains develop cellular connections based on reinforcement and punishment. When a brain cannot receive reinforcements for its normal behaviors, it learns new ones. When that is a pervasive experience, being socially punished for the ways it functions, it learns to constantly edit the ways it’s allowed to “perform”. This leads to an ongoing sense of fear and uncertainty that needs to be dispelled with social reassu...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Achieve Fucker
July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes - 22 MBTranscript: https://www.t-mfrs.com/post/20-life-on-abuse-intro-to-yermfjess "Brains develop cellular connections based on reinforcement and punishment. When a brain cannot receive reinforcements for its normal behaviors, it learns new ones. When that is a pervasive experience, being socially punished for the ways it functions, it learns to constantly edit the ways it’s allowed to “perform”. This leads to an ongoing sense of fear and uncertainty that needs to be dispelled with social reassura...
YOU v. BRAIN v. HUMAN PROGRAMMING | Pt II
July 13, 2022 08:56 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBPart I: you're not your brain. Part II: ready to conceptualize the terrible brain programs you're accidentally engaging each day? How'd they get there, how can we rethink them instead of accepting them, and how can we redirect them? Talking family patterns, distraction, indecision, ADD, hypervigilance, trauma, and PTSD fog all in one. Ready to understand your neural patterning better? Then jump into the exercise episode streaming in the TMFR Blanket Fort! Plus, get the intricate details for...
19b. YOU v. BRAIN v. HUMAN PROGRAMMING | Pt II
July 13, 2022 08:56 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBPart I: you're not your brain. Part II: ready to conceptualize the terrible brain programs you're accidentally engaging each day? How'd they get there, how can we rethink them instead of accepting them, and how can we redirect them? Talking family patterns, distraction, indecision, ADD, hypervigilance, trauma, and PTSD fog all in one. Ready to understand your neural patterning better? Then jump into the exercise episode streaming in the TMFR Blanket Fort! Plus, get the intricate details for...
19. "YOU" vs BRAIN vs HUMANS | Brain Detachment Pt. I
July 06, 2022 08:10 - 1 hour - 57.5 MBIt's a public re-release! Here's a full length talk from the ole episode catalogue. Rough times, huh? Emotional/cognitive scrambling? We've been talking tiny details - TODAY, going the opposite route. Laying out BIG picture concepts for rethinking your entire existence so far, and having more control over your brain every day into the future. Let's cement a line in the sand about who YOU are, versus your BRAIN, versus your automated meat jump suit. It's the brain-conceptualizations that ...
18. Society and Trickle-down Trauma
June 29, 2022 09:58 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBSo, Fuckers... Here's a minor introduction. Let's talk about what's going on and why our brains are failing us. If you're interested in social mind-control and the ways we learn to be "acceptable" in the cages we're born into... you know where to find more of this talk. Gettin radical on the patreon private stream, get your private RSS code when you're ready to revolutionize. Cheers, take care and be safe out there. ✊ t-mfrs.com patreon.com/traumatizedmotherfuckers https://www.votingr...
17. Internalizing Triggers, Dis-integrating from Your Real Self
June 22, 2022 08:42 - 21 minutes - 20.3 MBWhen we're continually around a certain stimulus that creates predictable, psychonoxious brain responses inside of us... what happens? Well, over time, you might bring that stimulus inside yourself. And it's all a shitshow from there. If we can't get away from whatever is riling up a head, we might be activating certain "hotspots" of brain activity. Dense areas with many connections that are less linked with other brain cells. And over time, those pieces of your self... might become more d...
16. Overcompensation-Collapse-Getbackup; Recovery Backslides and Resilience
June 15, 2022 08:42 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBSo you've got a head full of traumatic events and the punches just keep rolling. What happens when we're "partly recovered"... only to have some new information/event seep in and stir our history of negative narratives up? Do we admit we're struggling? Or do we "push through" the remerging symptoms for as long as we can, entering into a trauma-classic cycle: Symptomatic Ignorance - Overcompensation - Collapse - Paroxysm What does it mean about us if we falter in our progress? Are we weak ...
15. "Perspective" Gaslighting
March 19, 2022 16:38 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB"That's just one perspective," they say, dismissing your experience and throwing your head into a disaster state for the next 3 weeks while you doubt everything you thought was real. Good luck with the trauma brain as you try to reassess and reconstruct your life so far. Were you "just seeing it wrong"? Or... do we all get gasLIT around our families. Today, let's talk about "Perspective." What IS the ACTUAL definition of the word? How does it relate to PTSD development? And what factors are ...
Ukraine, Your T-Brain, & How to Help.
February 25, 2022 16:52 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBFeeling unable to help yourself and others? There are ways to help your brain and their fight. Let's talk through some options. Motherfuckers stand by their brothers. We stand for the end of abuse. We stand with Ukraine. ✊ If you haven't already, consider donating and reposting this list of charities benefitting innumerable methods of helping, targeting specific groups and areas of need: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/s6g5un/want_to_support_ukraine_heres_a_list_of_charities/ ⭐...
14. Time Distortions
February 12, 2022 16:40 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBWhat've we been covering in the Blanket Fort? Well, it's been quite a... time. Sometimes too big, sometimes too small. Sometimes moving very fast, sometimes not moving at all. Time really is a trip, when you're tripping on a full litany of mental illnesses that tend to come alongside CPTSD. Today, we're talking about the time orientation distortion effects of PTSD, anxiety, ADHD, BPD, schizophrenia, and depression. Plus, what you can do about it. Even if it feels like you're living in Wonderl...
1.13. Recovery
January 21, 2022 14:04 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBConvinced you aren't individually damaged, doomed, or destitute yet? Sick. But that comfort doesn't do much good if your brain, behaviors, and life don't change along with the perspective. Here are 10 steps for CPTSD recovery and your life redesign. Keeping in mind, "different strokes for different folks," "different gains for different brains." Let the experiment begin. See you on the other side, Motherfucker. For a lot more "moving forward" information and support... you know by now....
13. Recovery
January 21, 2022 14:04 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBConvinced you aren't individually damaged, doomed, or destitute yet? Sick. But that comfort doesn't do much good if your brain, behaviors, and life don't change along with the perspective. Here are 10 steps for CPTSD recovery and your life redesign. Keeping in mind, "different strokes for different folks," "different gains for different brains." Let the experiment begin. See you on the other side, Motherfucker. For a lot more "moving forward" information and support... you know by now....
12. Loss of "Self," Learned Helplessness, and Executive Functioning
January 13, 2022 12:12 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBDo you edit your daily activities to feel "acceptable," to the detriment of your own wants, needs, and goals? Can you see yourself clearly from the outside, on one timeline? Do you have the power to "drop out" of your brain and observe its activities as a separate observer? Maybe not. Today, we're talking about the loss of "Self" - the most flowery and easily dismissible of the CPTSD hallmarks... which might explain why we continually lose progress in trauma recovery. It's the key to keep...
1.12. Loss of "Self," Learned Helplessness, and Executive Functioning
January 13, 2022 12:12 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBDo you edit your daily activities to feel "acceptable," to the detriment of your own wants, needs, and goals? Can you see yourself clearly from the outside, on one timeline? Do you have the power to "drop out" of your brain and observe its activities as a separate observer? Maybe not. Today, we're talking about the loss of "Self" - the most flowery and easily dismissible of the CPTSD hallmarks... which might explain why we continually lose progress in trauma recovery. It's the key to keep...
1.11. Fawning, Anxious Attachment, and Enmeshment
January 06, 2022 14:10 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat's the difference between "being a good person" and sacrificing your whole life to support others? In most of our families and social structures... there isn't one. Which makes it pretty hard to name the problem, re-examine your instincts to serve, or stand up for your right to operate your own brain. Today, let's talk about one of the most ignored and normalized survival responses. Fawning. If history has anything to say - sorry to everyone who kickstarts a new round of therapy beca...
11. Fawning, Anxious Attachment, and Enmeshment
January 06, 2022 14:10 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat's the difference between "being a good person" and sacrificing your whole life to support others? In most of our families and social structures... there isn't one. Which makes it pretty hard to name the problem, re-examine your instincts to serve, or stand up for your right to operate your own brain. Today, let's talk about one of the most ignored and normalized survival responses. Fawning. If history has anything to say - sorry to everyone who kickstarts a new round of therapy beca...
10. Family of Origin & Yer Brain Programming
December 31, 2021 14:35 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBHere's a holiday release for ya. Merry whatever-you-do, and let's talk about families fuckin things up. Mental illness seems to run in families, do'nnit? Turns out, there's some biological mirroring mechanisms you might want to hear about. Why are you "the way you are"? It's because of them. Why do they refuse to see your progress and personality realistically? It's also because of them. Today, let's talk brain development, brain programming, and brain-protection tactics (you might know...
1.10. Family of Origin & Yer Brain Programming
December 31, 2021 14:35 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBHere's a holiday release for ya. Merry whatever-you-do, and let's talk about families fuckin things up. Mental illness seems to run in families, do'nnit? Turns out, there's some biological mirroring mechanisms you might want to hear about. Why are you "the way you are"? It's because of them. Why do they refuse to see your progress and personality realistically? It's also because of them. Today, let's talk brain development, brain programming, and brain-protection tactics (you might know...
10. (Holiday Release) Family of Origin Brain Programming
December 24, 2021 16:56 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBHere's a holiday early release for ya. Merry whatever-you-do, and let's talk about families fuckin things up. Mental illness seems to run in families, do'nnit? Turns out, there's some biological mirroring mechanisms you might want to hear about. Why are you "the way you are"? It's because of them. Why do they refuse to see your progress and personality realistically? It's also because of them. Today, let's talk brain development, brain programming, and brain-protection tactics (you might k...
1.9. The Trauma Trap: Avoidance, Rigidity, and Trauma-Bubbles
December 23, 2021 15:26 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBSo, let's say your brain is on fire 24/7. Your body is doing the same. You're uncomfortable every moment, from the inside and out. You, very literally, are too sick and tired to deal with another obstacle or point of pressure. So... You reasonably start avoiding sources of strain. But then it gets unreasonable. What happens if everything is deemed "risky"?Talking the eventual extreme outcome of untreated CPTSD. Turns out, it's a lot more common than you probably think - TLC specials, aside. T...
9. The Trauma Trap: Avoidance, Rigidity, and Trauma-Bubbles
December 23, 2021 15:26 - 20 minutes - 19.1 MBSo, let's say your brain is on fire 24/7. Your body is doing the same. You're uncomfortable every moment, from the inside and out. You, very literally, are too sick and tired to deal with another obstacle or point of pressure. So... You reasonably start avoiding sources of strain. But then it gets unreasonable. What happens if everything is deemed "risky"? Talking the eventual extreme outcome of untreated CPTSD. Turns out, it's a lot more common than you probably think - TLC specials, aside....
1.8. Losing Control of Your Brain: Triggers, Spirals, Addiction, Self-harm, Bad habits
December 16, 2021 13:57 - 32 minutes - 30 MBWhat's the difference between your past high-functionality and current fears of "losing your fucking mind"? Bad information that was programmed into faulty neural networks being activated more regularly in ways that override the accessibility of the "human brained" prefrontal cortex. The good news is, you can fix it. Your brain isn't "you" or a reflection of your value. And it's just a stupid biological reactor organ, waiting to be taught better. "As much as we put it on a pedestal, you...
8. Losing Control of Your Brain: Triggers, Spirals, Addiction, Self-harm, Bad habits
December 16, 2021 13:57 - 32 minutes - 30 MBWhat's the difference between your past high-functionality and current fears of "losing your fucking mind"? Bad information that was programmed into faulty neural networks being activated more regularly in ways that override the accessibility of the "human brained" prefrontal cortex. The good news is, you can fix it. Your brain isn't "you" or a reflection of your value. And it's just a stupid biological reactor organ, waiting to be taught better. "As much as we put it on a pedestal, you...
1.7. Anxiety, Obsession, and ADHD; The High Energy Hellscape
December 08, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBTime to talk about perhaps the largest post-traumatic complaint. It's time for Anxiety. (When isn't it?) Let's also chat about those highly related conditions often driven by anxiety... Obsession and Scattered Thinking. The link between all of them that might help you with managing the system? Neutralizing the "high energy" changes they create in your brain and body, plus rewiring that brain to recognize these neural activities are all unwinnable attempts to out-pace a rightfully-assumed-dan...
7. Anxiety, Obsession, and ADHD; The High Energy Hellscape
December 08, 2021 22:00 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBTime to talk about perhaps the largest post-traumatic complaint. It's time for Anxiety. (When isn't it?) Let's also chat about those highly related conditions often driven by anxiety... Obsession and Scattered Thinking. The link between all of them that might help you with managing the system? Neutralizing the "high energy" changes they create in your brain and body, plus rewiring that brain to recognize these neural activities are all unwinnable attempts to out-pace a rightfully-assumed-dan...
6. Depression, Shame, Rumination; The Low Energy Gang
December 06, 2021 13:09 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBYou know the team well. They all travel together. One feeds into and strengthens the next. And getting away from them feels inescapable. It's a Traumatized Motherfucker's worst friends; rumination, shame, and depression. Which cognitive hellhole comes first? Current models aren't certain. All we know is, this horrible-thought-horrible-feeling cycle is one hell of a ride. "The end result of trying to “put ourselves in our maggoty, scum-filled place” is sitting at home alone, isolating ours...
1.6. Depression, Shame, Rumination; The Low Energy Gang
December 06, 2021 13:09 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBYou know the team well. They all travel together. One feeds into and strengthens the next. And getting away from them feels inescapable. It's a Traumatized Motherfucker's worst friends; rumination, shame, and depression. Which cognitive hellhole comes first? Current models aren't certain. All we know is, this horrible-thought-horrible-feeling cycle is one hell of a ride. "The end result of trying to “put ourselves in our maggoty, scum-filled place” is sitting at home alone, isolating ours...
5. Life-Numbing Dissociation
November 24, 2021 13:35 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBEmotional numbing. Over-intellectualizing. Depersonalization. Derealization. Fragmented Personalities. Let's talk about all the ways that our brains try to protect us from stress, overwhelm, and danger. The ways we might see this as "adaptive skill." And the ways we might not even realize dissociation is happening, by half-brained design. Looking to learn more? You know what to do. Go to t-mfrs.com to see the visually-enhanced version of these posts (my shit-doodles, don't get excited). Hi...
1.5. Life-Numbing Dissociation
November 24, 2021 13:35 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBEmotional numbing. Over-intellectualizing. Depersonalization. Derealization. Fragmented Personalities. Let's talk about all the ways that our brains try to protect us from stress, overwhelm, and danger. The ways we might see this as "adaptive skill." And the ways we might not even realize dissociation is happening, by half-brained design. Looking to learn more? You know what to do. Go to t-mfrs.com to see the visually-enhanced version of these posts (my shit-doodles, don't get excited). Hi...
4. Actually-Effective Therapy
November 17, 2021 13:25 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBI know, therapy probably hasn’t been a walk in the park so far. If you’re here, you’re probably looking for more information, more help, or more reassurance that you’re not the only one looking for a way out. But there's no real substitute to having a professional to keep you grounded, processing the right materials, and creating personalized progress goals in line with your individual struggles. As someone who did NOT want to go to therapy, after two very bad experiences with people who di...
1.4. Actually-Effective Therapy
November 17, 2021 13:25 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MBI know, therapy probably hasn’t been a walk in the park so far. If you’re here, you’re probably looking for more information, more help, or more reassurance that you’re not the only one looking for a way out. But there's no real substitute to having a professional to keep you grounded, processing the right materials, and creating personalized progress goals in line with your individual struggles. As someone who did NOT want to go to therapy, after two very bad experiences with people who di...
1.3b. Yer Life on CPTSD
November 10, 2021 22:48 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBLet's take an unexpected step back, and talk more about the EXPERIENCE of living with CPTSD, not just the brain processes that make it reality. With memory, attentional, emotional, and relationship issues at the forefront of the list, not to mention all the stress-based health failures, there's a lot to say about the endless death march of having untreated CPTSD running the show. The real cumulative CPTSD experience is probably when we take all these tormentors coming from the insides of our ...
3b. Yer Life on CPTSD
November 10, 2021 22:48 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBLet's take an unexpected step back, and talk more about the EXPERIENCE of living with CPTSD, not just the brain processes that make it reality. With memory, attentional, emotional, and relationship issues at the forefront of the list, not to mention all the stress-based health failures, there's a lot to say about the endless death march of having untreated CPTSD running the show. The real cumulative CPTSD experience is probably when we take all these tormentors coming from the insides of ou...
1.3a. Yer Brain on CPTSD
November 01, 2021 23:32 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBLet's talk about everyone's favorite new buzzdiagnosis - Complex Trauma (CPTSD). What is it? Why is it so difficult to name? And what does it really do to your brain, as far as creating self-destructive neural structures that can undermine your lifetime? Here's a biological / neuropsychological breakdown of life on undiagnosed CPTSD, AKA living with "pervasive relational trauma." In a nutshell, CPTSD is the same brain mechanism and downstream nightmare we just discussed last time in our P...
3. Yer Brain on CPTSD
November 01, 2021 23:32 - 32 minutes - 30.1 MBLet's talk about everyone's favorite new buzzdiagnosis - Complex Trauma (CPTSD). What is it? Why is it so difficult to name? And what does it really do to your brain, as far as creating self-destructive neural structures that can undermine your lifetime? Here's a biological / neuropsychological breakdown of life on undiagnosed CPTSD, AKA living with "pervasive relational trauma." In a nutshell, CPTSD is the same brain mechanism and downstream nightmare we just discussed last time in our P...
1.2. What is Trauma? Brain Mechanism of PTSD
October 24, 2021 13:51 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBIt's not so mysterious, actually. We’ve really made Trauma into a big word with a lot of negative connotation, qualification, and over-complication. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t shamefully uttered the phrase “But I wonder if that’s really bad enough to count as trauma, when other people have had it worse.” So let’s stop right there and clear up the fact that trauma has nothing to do with being in the top 1% of human tragedy. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this...