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How PTSD Impacts Men and Women Differently- *** How PTSD Impacts Men and Women Differently - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2017 from The RefugeIt should come as no surprise that men and women, while similar in numerous ways, are also very different. When it comes to posttraumatic stress disorder (more commonly referred to as PTSD), both men and women can be affected; however this disorder can impact men and women in very different ...
Views: 8767(1 vote) - ***Are You Angry or Depressed Because Your Partner has Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD? - by Submitted on May 21, 2009 from Diane England,Does your partner refuse to do practically anything with you anymore even though you used to go everywhere together? Do you find verbal abuse being slung your way when your partner used to be a kind person? Are you confused by a suddenly sexless marriage when your partner couldn’t keep his hands ...
Views: 3153(2 votes) - ***Are Your Beliefs Your Friend or Foe? - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Diane England,Are you aware that you operate under certain beliefs and assumptions that help you to make sense of this world and your life experiences, and that also guide you as you maneuver through each day? Perhaps you’re very much aware of the fact that you have such a framework—often referred to as a ...
Views: 4027(11 votes) - Are your thoughts causing your stressful feelings? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2009 from Robert VibertThere is a prevalent theory making the rounds, time and again, that your thoughts are what create your emotions and therefore your stress. One of the expressions of these is what is called “Appraisal Theory”, which has been summed up as follows: Event ==> thinking ==> Simultaneous arousal ...
Views: 1825(3 votes) - Avoidance Behaviors Are Dangerous - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2009 from Kathleen HoweNot only are avoidance behaviors commonplace for those experiencing post traumatic stress disorder; people in general have a tendency to avoid what they don't know what to do with. Avoidance behaviors revolve around our fears. What are you afraid of? You avoid it like the plague I'll bet! Those ...
Views: 12324(1 vote) - Creating the Perfect Atmosphere for PTSD Recovery - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2014 from Abigail FazelatMental illness is a lifelong struggle, and many sufferers feel like they are left to deal with their conditions all on their own. Oftentimes, people who suffer from any sort of mental illness feel that they are completely alone and alienated by their condition. Many veterans diagnosed with ...
Views: 984(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: It makes me very very upset, angry, pissed-off, and sad. - by Submitted on May 03, 2011 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I saw your article "Surviving Loss and Thriving Again" while searching for answers to my own issues. The 'loved one' I lost was myself. I loved life, loved adventure, travel, people, photography, mostly adventure! In 2 seconds my life was 'taken' away pretty much. This ...
Views: 1990(2 votes) - EFT for PTSD : Effective Treatment For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Rob NelsonPTSD begins with a traumatic interruption of our experience of reality. Our usual sense of safety and well-being are violated and replaced by intense feelings of fear, horror and helplessness, overwhelming whatever coping strategies we’ve developed for everyday stress. Whether this is the ...
Views: 10183(2 votes) - Fear from Serial Killers Attack Conquered with Emotional Freedom Techniue (EFT) - by Submitted on Jul 03, 2009 from Maryanne Lane LMT Cert EFT"I [client anonymity requested] was a victim of a knife attack and was left for dead. I survived with physical problems and emotional problems. I had a couple sessions of EFT and have had significant relief in the pain. Everything has not gone away completely, but when I have pain, I can tap and ...
Views: 1701(3 votes) - GENUINE CHAROITE HEALING STONES - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Zlatko CapanDiscovered in Russia in 1940 in the Murun mountains in Yakutia, to date, this the only known location for this rare mineral. The name Chariot is derived from the Chary River which is near where it was found. Purple, solid. Newly coming into greater use. Works with Indigo & violet Charka to ...
Views: 2813(2 votes) - Identifying PTSD from Childhood Abuse-3 Steps to Healing - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2009 from Bettina Sparkles ObernuefemannI’ve learned during the past 20 years that almost all of us on planet earth have experienced some kind of trauma or loss, now more commonly recognized as POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD). We become trauma victims when we experience natural disasters, murder, suicide, gang fights, robbery, ...
Views: 6366(3 votes) - Is Suffering Optional? - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2009 from Dr. Kathleen YoungMy title is prompted by the oft repeated phrase: Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. What is your experience of this? Is suffering optional? Is that even a desirable goal? Or are there experiences that automatically cause suffering? Is there a function to “suffering” or feeling one’s ...
Views: 1387(2 votes) - Managing Sadness and Depression - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2010 from Jessica Blalock, Ph.D.Everyone has felt sad or down at some time in their life as a result of life events such as a move to another city, loss of a job, medical reasons, etc. This is a normal part of life and it happens to all of us. Everyone has felt sad or down at some time in their life as a result of life ...
Views: 3767(1 vote) - Neural Somatic Integration® - by Submitted on Jan 07, 2011 from Arthur MunyerWelcome to The Munyer Method® Neural Somatic Integration® What Is Neural Somatic Integration? Neural Somatic Integration: a breakthrough approach to mind-body healing that combines body-work with the latest understandings of human neurobiology. Neural Somatic Integration (NSI) goes ...
Views: 2378(1 vote) - New Therapy Breakthrough for PTSD - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2010 from Adele Tartaglia INSTANT SUBCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMING The Life Management Center 480/220-2089 eztherapy@gmail.comIf you have experienced a traumatic event or series of events that you have not really recovered from, you may be suffering from PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. You don’t feel like you did before the incident, you are easily triggered, too guarded to connect with your family, fearful, ...
Views: 2430(1 vote) - New Thought-Stopping Technique - by Submitted on Dec 20, 2012 from David PollackRapid Eye Oscillation Technique (REOT) is a technique that can be used for reducing excessive ruminations and worry, to calm a racing mind, and for general relaxation. It can also help eliminate meditation "monkey mind" -- the problem with unwanted thoughts entering your consciousness during ...
Views: 1745(2 votes) - Releasing Traumatic Memories - by Submitted on Dec 12, 2009 from Sue HeldenbrandTraumatic events or situations can be overwhelming experiences. Dealing with your emotions after a traumatic event can be difficult. Although the event has ended, the memories may last for months or years to come. One way that these emotions may be released from the part of the brain that ...
Views: 3355(2 votes) - Sample Chapter from: 'Gentling: a Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children' - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2009 from William Krill5 The Stress Episode As therapists, one of our major tools is our words. Most adults, when they witness a child who is severely upset over what appears to not want to follow a directive, will label the behavior a “tantrum”, or at best “acting out”. In most cases, this is a fairly accurate ...
Views: 2474(2 votes) - The Gentling Approach to PTSD in Abused Children - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2009 from William KrillPerhaps the most notable flaw in all of the current treatment methods of treating children for stress disorders, including acute stress and post traumatic stress, is that they are modeled largely on the experiences and diagnostic criteria of adults. Not much treatment development has been made ...
Views: 5282(2 votes) - The Law Of Attraction Works When You Have Healed Your Memories - by Submitted on Mar 30, 2014 from Frank HealyIf you have tried using the Law of Attraction to achieve your goals and have not been fully successful, you have beliefs and feelings that sabotage your efforts. consequentially, when you visualize, speak, and get in the feeling that the goal is already achieved, you can be like a car with the ...
Views: 2540(1 vote) - Trauma and Anxiety - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2009 from Dr. Kathleen YoungAnxiety is more than just a feeling. As a product of the body's fight-or-flight response, anxiety involves a wide range of physical symptoms. Because of the numerous physical symptoms, anxiety sufferers often mistake their disorder for a medical illness. You may have visited many doctors and ...
Views: 1677(2 votes) - What is the Complete Recovery Program and how does it work? - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2011 from Jerry ChristensenWhy are there so many solutions to remedy the human condition? Must there be unique solutions to different problems regarding health? If we are all comprised of virtually the same DNA structure why do some people get sick while others do not? These were a few questions I had during some ...
Views: 1209(2 votes) - ***Women, Sexual Assault, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Diane England,About fifty percent of women will experience trauma at some point during their lifetimes that may or may not lead to the mental disorder known as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. However, one of the more common forms of trauma that women experience, and one that often does lead to PTSD, ...
Views: 4042(3 votes) - Brain Chemistry and PTSD - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2009 from William KrillPTSD is all about brain chemistry and what happens to the brain during and immediately after the critical, traumatic incident. Essentially, the chemicals that flood the brain during the trauma do so in order to help the person to survive the event, either by running away, or fighting furiously. ...
Views: 4601(3 votes) - Holodynamics: Compassion meets physics - by Submitted on Nov 23, 2009 from Andrew ScheimI would like to share with you a very powerful form of consciousness work called Holodynamics. First a brief background on how I came to this work. In my practice I work with very challenged individuals. The patterns that cause illness on all levels are quite deep and usually clouded in ...
Views: 4335(3 votes) - Hurt People Hurt People - by Submitted on Apr 19, 2011 from Ken FieldsPeople who are hurt, specifically in an emotional or psychological sense, tend to hurt other people. Hurt people can hurt people with harsh words, biting comments, derogatory statements, ridicule, condescension, sarcasm, yelling and screaming, cussing and innuendo about family members or ...
Views: 4133(3 votes) - Japan Tsunami & Earthquake and Trauma / Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2013 from Akira OlsenThe recent Tsunami and earthquake in Japan left many people in a state of shock, sadness, fear, and anxiety. Many survivors are still looking for missing family members and friends. It is inevitable that many people in Japan will develop Post Traumatic Stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of this ...
Views: 4656(3 votes) - Energetic Releasing Of Trauma - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2010 from Sue HeldenbrandDealing with your emotions after a traumatic event can be difficult. Although the event has ended, the memories may last for months or years to come. Similar events, sights, smells and sounds may trigger a traumatic memory. The traumatic experience still exists in our brain and contains the ...
Views: 3982(2 votes) - Relief for Experiencing Emotions and Feelings Through Hypervigilence - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2009 from Kathleen HoweHypervigilence... it's what life is all about when dealing with post traumatic stress disorder. Everything is extreme, intensified, all or nothing, and it's incredibly difficult to simply relax upon demand, but it's what we must learn to do if we've been diagnosed with PTSD. The plague of ...
Views: 2266(2 votes) - Saving the Lives of Those Who Save Yours - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2009 from Intent.com AuthorsDoctors in the VA are under pressure NOT to diagnose PTSD, because a diagnosis of PTSD leads to increased benefits and disqualifies the soldier from re-deployment. Bodies are at a premium here, folks, with many soldiers being deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan numerous times. Hardball on msnbc.com ...
Views: 1437(2 votes) - When Anxiety Has A Life Of Its Own - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2011 from Laurie MillerAccording to the National Institute of Anxiety and Stress, anxiety disorders affect about 40 million people a year. The numbers are staggering especially for women who suffer from anxiety and stress almost twice as much as men. More and more children and seniors are also struggling with ...
Views: 1238(2 votes) - PTSD facts and treatment - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2010 from Belinda WilliamsonWhat is post traumatic stress disorder? At some stage in your life you are likely to experience or witness a traumatic event or know someone who has. Research indicates that 65% of men and 50% of women are exposed to trauma during their lifetime. Traumatic events vary. They can occur ...
Views: 2113(9 votes) - PTSD - And Didn't Know it! - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2011 from Dan L. HaysI spent a lot of time walking around Houston in the middle '80s with many of the symptoms of PTSD, and didn't know it. I was having flashbacks - of occurrences I didn't remember. I felt like the man in the Bourne Identity with amnesia, who was getting glimpses of his past - a past he could not ...
Views: 3260(8 votes) - Aroma~Yoga for PTSD Combining Yoga and Aromatherapy to help ease the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, (PTSD) - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2010 from Robin BarnettePost Traumatic Stress Syndrome is a severe anxiety disorder brought on by an extremely traumatic life experience. It can range from cases mild to extremely severe, between 6 and 11 percent of Afghanistan war veterans suffer from PTSD, and about 12 to 20 percent of Iraq war veterans suffer from ...
Views: 3396(2 votes) - All Wound Up And Wounded: Some Thoughts On Psychological Healing - by Submitted on Jul 31, 2010 from Ken FieldsIt may be of some surprise that the word 'wound' is used to represent a cut, hurt, abrasion or more serious injury AND that same word can mean tied up tightly, coiled up, or bound as in "I was all wound up with stress." We tend not to think of being wound up and stressed as an injury, or wound. ...
Views: 2957(1 vote) - An International Look on PTSD - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2014 from Abigail FazelatAlthough Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has always existed in the human psyche, it was not officially recognized by the medical community until about 1980, the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs estimates. When it first entered the DSM-III, the condition was apparently met with a stark ...
Views: 1245(1 vote) - Avoiding Your Feelings? Find out Why and What to Do About It - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2009 from Ron FrederickWhy do people tend to avoid feeling their feelings? It has everything to do with our early experience in life - what we learned and what we didn't learn. As I talk to people across the nation, most people agree that they didn't really learn how to make good use of their feelings when they were ...
Views: 2328(3 votes) - Definition: Psychological Disorder - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2008 from Shelly WalkerMental disorder or mental illness are terms used to refer to a psychological or physiological pattern that occurs in an individual and is usually associated with distress or disability that is not expected as part of normal development or culture. The recognition and understanding of mental ...
Views: 7483(1 vote) - Free Yourself from Anxiety and Win - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2010 from Vickie JimenezThere are a number of types of anxiety disorders which include anything from a mild to extreme anxiety disorder, panic attacks, phobias, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). If you have ever endured an attack, then you can identify with the feeling that ...
Views: 2671(2 votes) - How to Conquer Your Stress – Stress Reducer Secrets Revealed - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2009 from Dan ArdebiliWith all the responsibilities we have in the modern world we live in, it’s no wonder most people are seeking a stress reducer or stress reducers. With the increasing roles that men and women have to play, everything from businessman/women, husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, dad, mom, etc., ...
Views: 2398(3 votes) - Mindfulness Meditation Therapy for PTSD - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2011 from Peter StrongPost-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be defined as recurrent episodes of anxiety and panic in reaction to a past experience that was overwhelming at both sensory and emotional levels. The individual was unable to process and assimilate the experience, and the emotional trauma becomes ...
Views: 4005(2 votes) - Mindfulness Meditation Therapy for Resolving Emotional Stress - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2011 from Peter StrongMMT can be defined as: the direct application of mindfulness to the present felt-sense of an emotional complex to facilitate transformation, resolution and healing. DIRECT APPLICATION means that the individual trains to establish and sustain a quality of relationship with the inner ...
Views: 1844(1 vote) - Panic Attacks Driving You Crazy? - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2009 from Nathan TylerThere are people who experience panic attacks only when driving or behind the wheel of a car. Experiencing panic on the road is extremely hazardous for not only the driver of the vehicle but also other road users. There is always a risk when driving so it's not surprising that some drivers ...
Views: 1849(1 vote) - Relieve Stress With This 5 Simple and Yet Powerful Tips - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2010 from J. AcobIn modern societies, stress is becoming one of the major wellness problems. Stress from human relationships, financial troubles, work, family pressures, the world is becoming more active. Taking so much to do but getting little time to do it all. Here’s five quick ways to ease the pressure ...
Views: 1794(2 votes) - Soldier tells of his Traumatic Brain Injury in Iraq by IED - by Submitted on Dec 23, 2009 from Gerald Vest"If you're a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (O1F) or Operation Enduring Freedom(OEF), we welcome you home and sincerely thank you for the time you served. Words can't convey the deep appreciation that we and other Americans across the country have for your valor, commitment, and hard work. ...
Views: 2831(2 votes) - They Call It Borderline Personality Disorder. It's only a Label. - by Submitted on Feb 26, 2015 from Teresa LynneAs someone who was saddled with the label of Borderline Personality Disorder, I know firsthand the humiliating experience of dealing with both the mental health industry as a patient AND the reactions from those who love to use Google to get all their “facts” about people with BPD. The DSM’s ...
Views: 1678(1 vote) - Treatment Expectations for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder/Depression - by Submitted on Jul 21, 2009 from Kathleen HoweAs an individual with post traumatic stress disorder and depression, I've found it extremely difficult to know what to expect for treatment of my disorders. There isn't much written about the average joe out there that either suspects there's a possibility he/she may be experiencing PTSD or ...
Views: 1913(1 vote) - What is EMDR and How Can it Help You? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2009 from Cynthia Henrie, MFT, BCETSRecently more clients have expressed an interest in EMDR. What exactly is EMDR? EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, is a technique that is used to stimulate the nervous system and helps emotional memories and feelings that are “stuck” to be worked through or ...
Views: 3245(5 votes) - Why Virtual Reality Therapy Can Help You Sooner Than You Think - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2019 from Jack EliasSince 1988 I have spent the better part of every day helping people overcome their problems ranging from ordinary bad habits to extreme PTSD. The whole process centers around introducing people to the nature and function of our mind. Isn’t it ironic that we need help to understand something ...
Views: 1282(1 vote) - Dear Dr. Romance: I am on MAJOR pain pills. - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2013 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I am a 49 year old disabed vet, chest injury in pain 24/7. I am on MAJOR pain pills. Have not had sex with wife since one day I pulled her pants down and found a river of a substance that looked like human ejaculate but smelt like beer. Six months later she said it was ...
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