Depression and Complex Trauma
It’s been over a year since I added to this blog of mine…
A year that has seen a deterioration in my mental well being…
There were times I thought the noose was the way out…
But thankfully a mix of medication and therapy is working wonders…
I’m not out of the fire yet – but getting there…
I’ve even managed a few days of writing – basic stuff – but still writing…
Please please please if you are feeling down seek help…
I’m the most reluctant visitor to the doctor…
Therapy Works
In fact I have to be dragged kicking and screaming lol…
But once I took the plunge I received the help I so badly needed…
The weekly therapy sessions are tougher than I imagined…
But like Nixon said you have to visit the abyss before soaring in the clouds…
Or something…he said a lot of things – mostly lies lol…
So much has happened in the world that I felt the urge to comment on…
But felt that writing was the worst thing I could do…
Hopefully now I’ve broken the ice – I can try again…
So my apologies to my one regular reader – who am I kidding I have zero…
And let’s see where this place takes us…
PTSD
Complex Trauma the Facts
via: Wikipedia
- Attachment – “problems with relationship boundaries, lack of trust, social isolation, difficulty perceiving and responding to other’s emotional states, and lack of empathy”
- Biology – “sensory-motor developmental dysfunction, sensory-integration difficulties, somatization, and increased medical problems”
- Affect or emotional regulation – “poor affect regulation, difficulty identifying and expressing emotions and internal states, and difficulties communicating needs, wants, and wishes”
- Dissociation – “amnesia, depersonalization, discrete states of consciousness with discrete memories, affect, and functioning, and impaired memory for state-based events”
- Behavioural control – “problems with impulse control, aggression, pathological self-soothing, and sleep problems”
- Cognition – “difficulty regulating attention, problems with a variety of “executive functions” such as planning, judgement, initiation, use of materials, and self-monitoring, difficulty processing new information, difficulty focusing and completing tasks, poor object constancy, problems with “cause-effect” thinking, and language developmental problems such as a gap between receptive and expressive communication abilities.”
- Self-concept -“fragmented and disconnected autobiographical narrative, disturbed body image, low self-esteem, excessive shame, and negative internal working models of self”.
Sound Familiar..? SEEK HELP NOW!!!
