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Self-destruction rarely looks the way people expect it to. It’s not all reckless decisions and...

Trauma bonding is a specific psychological process that develops when abuse is combined with...

Maybe you've felt it before. That burning pit of shame in your stomach. The panic that washes over...

Most people understand trauma as something that happened to them. A specific experience, a specific...

It's a harder question than it appears, because CPTSD doesn't trace back to a single incident the...

Ask most women with CPTSD to describe how they feel about themselves, and you won't hear a list of...

There is a version of CPTSD that gets recognized. The flashbacks. The hypervigilance. The inability...

For decades, PTSD was the diagnosis that defined how medicine understood trauma. It came out of the...

CPTSD is not a new concept. Psychiatrist Judith Herman described its core features in the late...

You tried the breathing exercises. You journaled. You went for walks, drank more water, got better...

Letting your guard down doesn’t always feel right, and for people in recovery, it can just feel...