Recovery from Complex PTSD

Recovery from Complex PTSD
Author: Don Barlow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-04-18
Genre:
ISBN:

Are you suffering from chronic anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, or uncontrollable emotions? Although PTSD affects 7-8% of people in the world, it remains a relatively taboo subject. When people do talk about it, it's usually restricted to war veterans and victims of child abuse. The truth is, PTSD can manifest in response to any kind of trauma -- but what does this mean for people who have been repeatedly subjected to traumatic events? Recent research has shown that it is possible to recover from nightmarish experiences and live a life that feels happy and secure. You don't have to resign yourself to jumping at shadows and enduring intrusive, negative thoughts that wear you down mentally and physically. By taking the steps to understand why you're experiencing these things, you can begin to unlock the strength you have within you. Instead of struggling to find a sense of worth, you can rewrite the script and engage with yourself compassionately. It can be so easy to judge yourself harshly, but you have to remember this: When you are cruel to yourself, you are inadvertently cruel to the innocent child within you. You may have spent years seeking compassion and validation from others and finding only frustration and despair. However, that doesn't mean you're beyond help. Recovery from complex trauma is a long journey, but the rewards you'll reap along the way will keep you moving forward. In Recovery from Complex PTSD, you will discover: What Complex PTSD is and how it differs from the more commonly known PTSD How to rewrite the narrative of your life to overcome negative self-concept and regain control over your life The Loop of Traumatization: how your brain creates a survival-based narrative that dictates your thoughts and behaviors How understanding the causes of complex trauma can allow you to overcome the fear and pain that accompany distressing experiences What it means when you consistently experience disturbed interpersonal relationships The avoidance techniques you are unconsciously employing in your daily life that protect you but are also keeping you stagnant How you can build an accurate sense of self that isn't formed by the events from your past And much more. You know what helplessness feels like. The paralysis of panic, the loss of control. What it's time for you to learn, is that these feelings aren't forever. You are capable of transforming the way you experience life and in turn, change the lives of the people who care about you most. If you're ready to find your way to a content heart and quiet soul through self-exploration, then scroll up and click the "Add to Cart" button right now.

What My Bones Know

What My Bones Know
Author: Stephanie Foo
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2023-02-21
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0593238125

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life “Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal.”—Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, NPR, Mashable, She Reads, Publishers Weekly By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend. But behind her office door, she was having panic attacks and sobbing at her desk every morning. After years of questioning what was wrong with herself, she was diagnosed with complex PTSD—a condition that occurs when trauma happens continuously, over the course of years. Both of Foo’s parents abandoned her when she was a teenager, after years of physical and verbal abuse and neglect. She thought she’d moved on, but her new diagnosis illuminated the way her past continued to threaten her health, relationships, and career. She found limited resources to help her, so Foo set out to heal herself, and to map her experiences onto the scarce literature about C-PTSD. In this deeply personal and thoroughly researched account, Foo interviews scientists and psychologists and tries a variety of innovative therapies. She returns to her hometown of San Jose, California, to investigate the effects of immigrant trauma on the community, and she uncovers family secrets in the country of her birth, Malaysia, to learn how trauma can be inherited through generations. Ultimately, she discovers that you don’t move on from trauma—but you can learn to move with it. Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman’s ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.

The Complex PTSD Workbook

The Complex PTSD Workbook
Author: Arielle Schwartz PhD
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-01-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1623158257

A mind-body workbook for healing and overcoming Complex PTSD Those affected by complex PTSD, or C-PTSD, commonly feel as though there is something fundamentally wrong with them—that somewhere inside there is a part of them that needs to be fixed. Facing one's PTSD is a brave, courageous act—and with the right guidance, recovery is possible. In The Complex PTSD Workbook, you'll learn all about C-PTSD and gain valuable insight into the types of symptoms associated with unresolved childhood trauma. Take healing into your own hands while applying strategies to help integrate positive beliefs and behaviors. Discover your path to recovery with: Examples and exercises—Uncover your own instances of trauma with PTSD activities designed to teach you positive strategies. Expert guidance—Explore common PTSD diagnoses and common methods of PTSD therapy including somatic therapy, CBT, and mind-body perspectives. Prompts and reflections—Apply the strategies you've learned and identify PTSD symptoms with insightful writing prompts. Find the tools you need to work through C-PTSD and regain emotional control with this mind-body workbook.

Treatment of Complex Trauma

Treatment of Complex Trauma
Author: Christine A. Courtois
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462506585

This insightful guide provides a pragmatic roadmap for treating adult survivors of complex psychological trauma. Christine Courtois and Julian Ford present their effective, research-based approach for helping clients move through three clearly defined phases of posttraumatic recovery. Two detailed case examples run throughout the book, illustrating how to plan and implement strengths-based interventions that use a secure therapeutic alliance as a catalyst for change. Essential topics include managing crises, treating severe affect dysregulation and dissociation, and dealing with the emotional impact of this type of work. The companion Web page offers downloadable reflection questions for clinicians and extensive listings of professional and self-help resources. See also Drs. Courtois and Ford's edited volumes, Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders (Adults) and Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents, which present research on the nature of complex trauma and review evidence-based treatment models.

Restoring the Shattered Self

Restoring the Shattered Self
Author: Heather Davediuk Gingrich
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0830831894

Many counselors are not adequately prepared to help those suffering from complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). In this updated text, Heather Davediuk Gingrich provides an essential resource for Christian counselors, ably integrating the established research on trauma therapy with insights from her own thirty years of experience and an understanding of the special concerns related to Christian counseling.

Complex PTSD and Recovery

Complex PTSD and Recovery
Author: Mike Proctor
Publisher: Mike Proctor
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-03-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is debilitating. Life seems to be on hold. Accomplishing the smallest of tasks takes all the stamina you can muster. Without treatment the symptoms get worst. Many suffer in silence. They simply don't have the energy or will power to leave the house and face the public to attend therapy appointments for help with their PTSD. That is where books come in handy. You can work on your healing in the privacy of your own home. I've written this book to help you on your road to recovery. I've written this book in an easy to follow format without a lot of unnecessary medical jargon. I've written this book precise and to the point to make it easy to read in one sitting so you will be able to apply the strategies I've shared right away. This book was written to help all those struggling to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and problems surrounding PTSD. It is human nature to dream. When we go to sleep at night, we dream of things only our brains could scope out. And as it is usual to dream, it is also usual to day dream. Day dreaming is different from dreaming in the sense that all outside stimuli can directly affect what goes on in your daydream, sounds, scents, what the wind feels like. But imagine what life would be like if you had constant and unending nightmares instead of dreams? Nightmares that are vivid and complete in all their lucidity. And even worse, if you were seeing these nightmares as day dreams in waking life and will all the accompaniment of sound, scents, and feeling that may not be to your benefit. Post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on any specific person, may be triggered by absolutely anything and these triggers when outside in society cannot exactly be predicated to happen or fully avoided. Post-traumatic stress disorder can be very difficult to deal with as it chooses neither time nor place and is caused by deep rooting trauma which may be far gone and hard to get rid of. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to fully understand the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, its causes, symptoms, and tests to diagnose its inhabitance in a person. This book also includes a list of treatment options in order to make the reader aware of all the choices he has.

Trauma and Recovery

Trauma and Recovery
Author: Judith Lewis Herman
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0465098738

In this groundbreaking book, a leading clinical psychiatrist redefines how we think about and treat victims of trauma. A "stunning achievement" that remains a "classic for our generation." (Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., author of The Body Keeps the Score). Trauma and Recovery is revered as the seminal text on understanding trauma survivors. By placing individual experience in a broader political frame, Harvard psychiatrist Judith Herman argues that psychological trauma is inseparable from its social and political context. Drawing on her own research on incest, as well as a vast literature on combat veterans and victims of political terror, she shows surprising parallels between private horrors like child abuse and public horrors like war. Hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most important psychiatry works to be published since Freud," Trauma and Recovery is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand how we heal and are healed.

Becoming Trauma Informed

Becoming Trauma Informed
Author: Lorraine Greaves
Publisher:
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2012
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9781771140584

Most people accessing mental health and addiction services have experienced trauma. For those working in community services, treatment agencies and hospitals, providing "trauma-informed care" requires an understanding of the effects of trauma, and of how to create programs, spaces and policies that place priority on trauma survivors' safety, choice and control. Becoming Trauma Informed describes trauma-informed practice at the individual, organizational and systemic levels. This multi-authored collection brings together the voices of those who have integrated trauma-informed principles into various mental health and addiction treatment and social service environments, and of the diverse groups with which they work. Becoming Trauma Informed is an important resource for those who are working, or who are planning to work asaddiction andmental healthpractitioners and program and system planners."

The Complex Ptsd Treatment Manual

The Complex Ptsd Treatment Manual
Author: Arielle Schwartz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2021-06-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781683733799

Clinicians working with complex trauma are honored with the most sacred of tasks: to bear witness to clients' suffering and to attend compassionately to their wounds. In The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, clinicians will find the road map they need to conduct successful therapy with clients who have experienced prolonged exposure to traumatic events. Combining the science and art of therapy, Dr. Arielle Schwartz seamlessly integrates research-based interventions with the essentials of healing to create a whole-person approach to trauma treatment. Drawing from her years of experience in working with trauma survivors, Dr. Schwartz provides clinicians with the tools they need to become a trustworthy companion to trauma survivors and become capable of guiding a healing journey for clients with a history of abuse or neglect. Within these pages, you will find: - Essential interventions that strengthen mindful body awareness, enhance distress tolerance, cultivate self-compassion, and facilitate trauma recovery - Over 50 practices, worksheets, and self-reflection points to utilize in each stage of the client's therapeutic process - Integration of several therapeutic approaches for trauma treatment, including relational therapy, mindful body awareness, parts work therapy, CBT, EMDR, somatic psychology, and practices drawn from complementary and alternative medicine

Complex PTSD for Beginners: an Easy Guide

Complex PTSD for Beginners: an Easy Guide
Author: Gerhard Christianson
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2018-12-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781791910945

"Complex PTSD for Beginners: an Easy Guide", hopes to be a source of information and inspiration for anyone experiencing PTSD or Complex PTSD, or for anyone who loves someone with Complex PTSD. The aim of this book is to provide a framework for self-management and recovery, but it should always be combined with professional help. You are strong enough to do this. Smile in trouble, gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as its name suggests, is an anxiety disorder that can occur secondary to a stressful or traumatic event like a vehicle accident or natural disasters. However, in recent years, a closely related condition called Complex PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder) is emerging as a new anxiety disorder which is now widely recognized and diagnosed by doctors worldwide. This disorder is called "complex," because it involves repeated trauma over months or years, compared to a single traumatic event that causes simple PTSD. This book, together with other resources and professional help, hopes to help its readers to overcome depression, anxiety, anger & worry associated with PTSD and Complex PTSD. In future updates, it will expand further into how to Improve your moods, regain emotional control, find your purpose after trauma & rise from CPTSD.