Disassociation

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Coping Skills, Shadow 101

Disassociation is a deeply personal and often misunderstood coping mechanism in response to trauma, stress, or overwhelming emotions by detaching yourself from your current experience or reality so as to not overwhelm your nervous system and body even more. It is your body and mind’s way of protecting you from any further overwhelm when reality… continue reading.

Introduction to cPTSD

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Coping Skills, Shadow 101

cPTSD (also c-PTSD, CPTSD, and C-PTSD) is complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Much like its’ counterpart, PTSD, cPTSD is also a mental health condition that can develop after a traumatic experience, and can be experienced directly within the traumatic event, witness a person experience a trauma, or learning that the traumatic event occurred to a close… continue reading.