How to Tell If Childhood Trauma Is Affecting You in Adulthood
Learn how to identify signs of childhood trauma impacting your adulthood and explore effective strategies for healing and personal growth.
Understanding the Stages of Grief and How Therapy Can Help
Grief is the emotional response to losing someone or something we care deeply about. It is a natural reaction that affects everyone differently. In this article, we will explore the stages of grief and how therapy, specifically grief counseling and grief therapy, can help individuals cope with grief and loss.
Trauma Bonding: What Is It and Why Do We Do It?
Trauma bonding occurs when a narcissist repeats a cycle of abuse with another person which fuels a need for validation and love from the person being abused. Trauma bonding often happens in romantic relationships, however, it can also occur between colleagues, non-romantic family members, and friends.
Trauma Causes Real Mental Illness, Become Part Of The Change
Before discussing how trauma can cause mental illness, it is important to understand that what may be traumatic to some, may not be traumatic to others. An incident that may be deeply distressing to an individual should not be invalidated based on the personal opinion of anyone else.
A Quick Background on PTSD
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is a disorder that takes root when a person experiences a traumatic event. It is one of the disorders that is commonly seen co-occurring with addiction, and over half of men who have PTSD also suffer from an addiction. PTSD has been around for as long as stress has, but it hasn’t always been called this, and it hasn’t always been formally recognized by the medical community.
