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3. “Perspective” | AKA - gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:25 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPerspective; 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 o...
2.3. “Perspective” | AKA - gaslighting, cognitive self-corruption, time distortions
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:25 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPerspective; 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 o...
2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA - current cult.ural triggerings
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:25 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsHave 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 ...
2.2. Retraumatization, backslides, and non-linear progress | AKA - current cult.ural triggerings
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:25 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsHave 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 ...
1. “Not bad enough to be trauma” | AKA - the aftermath is what matters
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:24 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsEver 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: ...
2.1. “Not bad enough to be trauma” | AKA - the aftermath is what matters
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:24 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsEver 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: ...
Intro to Season Two
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 20, 2022 17:24 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWe'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://ww...
22. Filial Obligation & Caregiving Anxiety... In All Yer Shitty Relationships.
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - August 03, 2022 08:22 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFawners, 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...
22. Obligation & Reparenting in Relationships
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - August 03, 2022 08:22 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFawners, 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...
21. Escape Trauma-Brain Refind Your Self
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 27, 2022 09:23 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsAnxiety 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 th...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Self-Editing and Achievement
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsTranscript: 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 pun...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Achieve Fucker
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsTranscript: 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 pun...
20. Life Built on Abuse | Meet YerMFJess
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 20, 2022 10:21 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsTranscript: 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 p...
19b. YOU v. BRAIN v. HUMAN PROGRAMMING | Pt II
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 13, 2022 08:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPart 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, hypervig...
YOU v. BRAIN v. HUMAN PROGRAMMING | Pt II
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 13, 2022 08:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsPart 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, hypervig...
19. "YOU" vs BRAIN vs HUMANS | Brain Detachment Pt. I
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - July 06, 2022 08:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsIt'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...
18. Society and Trickle-down Trauma
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - June 29, 2022 09:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsSo, 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 pat...
17. Internalizing Triggers, Dis-integrating from Your Real Self
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - June 22, 2022 08:42 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhen 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 ...
16. Overcompensation-Collapse-Getbackup; Recovery Backslides and Resilience
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - June 15, 2022 08:42 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsSo 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 symp...
15. "Perspective" Gaslighting
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - March 19, 2022 16:38 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratings"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 ...
Ukraine, Your T-Brain, & How to Help.
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - February 25, 2022 16:52 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsFeeling 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 cha...
14. Time Distortions
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - February 12, 2022 16:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhat'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...
13. Recovery
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 21, 2022 14:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsConvinced 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 diff...
1.13. Recovery
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 21, 2022 14:04 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsConvinced 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 diff...
1.12. Loss of "Self," Learned Helplessness, and Executive Functioning
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 13, 2022 12:12 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsDo 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, ...
12. Loss of "Self," Learned Helplessness, and Executive Functioning
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 13, 2022 12:12 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsDo 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, ...
1.11. Fawning, Anxious Attachment, and Enmeshment
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 06, 2022 14:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhat'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 ...
11. Fawning, Anxious Attachment, and Enmeshment
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - January 06, 2022 14:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsWhat'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 ...
10. Family of Origin & Yer Brain Programming
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 31, 2021 14:35 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsHere'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. ...
1.10. Family of Origin & Yer Brain Programming
Complex PTSD Recovery: We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers - December 31, 2021 14:35 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratingsHere'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. ...
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