This is the third post in a series addressing the misdiagnosis of Post Childhood Trauma Symptoms in Adulthood: According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) borderline personality disorder (BPD) cannot be diagnosed...
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) was not considered a viable adult diagnosis until the 1980s. Oddly enough a large number of adults are currently being diagnosed with ADHD (and medicated) who had no...
This is the first post in a series revealing information for you to consider regarding a diagnosis which has been assigned to you by a mental health professional, why it may be completely inaccurate, how...
If honesty is the best policy, why do so many of us who experienced childhood trauma (especially chronic childhood trauma) quake at the very thought of speaking our true feelings, needs and desires out...
Boundaries are the flak jackets of relationships. Once mastered, boundaries ensure you don’t get used, manipulated, punished or guilt tripped by other people. For those unfamiliar with the machinations of boundaries, their newly born...
People pleasing is a dangerous endeavor. The more vigorously it is pursued the more our True Self gets effaced, until all that, seemingly, remains is a puppet whose strings are constantly being pulled by...
I used to have an overwhelming urge to run smack into any car sporting the bumper sticker, “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.” When I finally took the leap and assumed responsibility for my own...
The limbic system controls feelings and emotional reactions in addition to categorizing and storing memories. It releases specific neurochemicals based on its interpretation of your survival needs at the moment. Your safety requirements, according...
The Limbic Brain – Intellect vs. Instinct When fight or flight were not viable survival options for you as a child it became imperative that you access an alternate method to ensure your mental, emotional and...
The feeling that was most pervasive for us as children and the one which is most insidious to us as adults with post childhood trauma symptoms is that we are somehow all ALONE. We learned...
