Complex Trauma PTSD Articles Summary

Articles: Complex Trauma and PTSD

Articles and Insights on Complex Trauma PTSD. These articles are based on real-life client-therapist interactions in practice.

You are victim-blaming! Your courses should be free! You have no qualifications!

What I have done is to carefully describe the processes involved, on a mental-emotional and at times physical level, when you are dealing with Post-Traumatic Stress in order to create insights and a framework to be able to address trauma and work through it.

Why You Are Being Manipulated to Groupthink

In order to exert control, you need groupthink. Groupthink is pervasive, and influenced by propaganda. It does not matter where you are, be it China, Russia, India, the EU, or the US.

The Fawn Response Dilemma

When you are constantly looking for validation, you might easily overextend yourself. You will cross your own boundaries to get that validation, and in the process, lose your own sense of self.

Fight-Flight-Freeze Responses and The Vagus Nerve

It is only when your fight-flight sympathetic nervous system starts to calm down that your parasympathetic nervous system—and thus your vagus nerve—can start to properly function again, thereby restoring balance.

Why Men Love War

When your survival strategy is to fight—in order to compensate for an internal (childhood) experience of feeling unworthy—you will be constantly on the lookout for opportunities to gain dominance and control.