Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Warnings to Primary Health Care Providers about popular treatments for PTSD:     Primary health care staff are also warned against...

Traumatic events and loss a common experience   Traumatic events and loss are common in people’s lives. In a previous WHO study of 21...

Quote: “Somehow my thoughts seemed to gather in corners like the snow; my mind was clogged and frozen over with multidirectional fluff....

PTSD - Building a Support System and Safe Environment:  Trauma and PTSD Impact Mental Health:  ​ For some people, if they suffer trauma...

Building a Supportive Space for PTSD Awaremess: Communicating with Friends and Family:    It is extremely important to build a strong...

Creating a Supportive Space for PTSD Sufferers 2:  First, all survivors of trauma should know the PTSD treatment centres near to where...

PTSD Survivors -- find Grounding Techniques and Mindfulness!​ Information from the Horsham Clinic (Philadelphia, Pa.):  ​ Grounding...

Creating a Supportive Space for PTSD Awareness 1    Did you know that there is a thing called PTSD radio? I did not. So, I looked it up....

​​​ ​The Warning Signs of PTSD:  ​ These signs are what the Delta Airlines survivors should be looking for in themselves . . .  ​...

Support for Survivors Those of us who know people who are survivors, and have PTSD because of what they have survived, will always want...

1. PTSD and nightmares go hand in hand. The nightmares are not even always about the trauma suffered by the person who ended up with...

As I try harder and harder to create this supportive space for those with the condition labelled PTSD, I think it is important to...

With PTSD, of course our nightmares/dreams can trigger some very intrusive thoughts during our waking/worrying hours. It is recommended...

PTSD has a bothersome symptom, nightmares! Often, I do not even remember what the nightmare was but I awake in the night with some...

Identifying PTSD:   I am feeling quite vulnerable today. I feel this way sometimes when I cannot control my self-doubt or insecurities....

In his Shannara series, in Book One, The Sword of Shannara —Terry Brooks once wrote “the future was inextricably tied to the past, an...

It Isn’t You? Really?   I am not a psychologist. But I know about PTSD. I grew up alongside it and experienced it alongside my parents....