What Every Survivor of Sexual Trauma Needs to Know
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Majority of children are resilient
http://www.nextavenue.org/how-to-help-your-teen-deal-with-trauma/ Fortunately, the majority of kids who experience traumatic events bounce back from them in a period of weeks or months, according to the American Psychological Association. That’s particularly true for children whose trauma consists of a single incident. What is key is that kids to get the support they need. Duval said she works…
Trauma may have an enduring effect on brain function
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-08-trauma-brain-ptsd.html The team separated studies by type of control group: trauma-exposed (those who had experienced trauma but did not have a diagnosis of PTSD) and trauma-naïve (those who had not experienced trauma), and compared the individuals with PTSD to both groups. This yielded an insight into how the abnormalities in functional brain activity in PTSD…
Traumatic memories stay fragmented
http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Surviving-sexual-abuse-why-sweeping-it-under-the-rug-causes-problems-318293291.html Dr. Leonard explains that traumatic memories stay fragmented because of the psychological state in a moment of panic. Those memories cannot be stored in long-term memory until there’s a cohesive “narrative” of what happened. Leonard says talking to a therapist or addressing the situation calmly and emphatically can help consolidate that memory so it…
Man arrested in relation to death of toddler
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/69777481/man-charged-after-death-of-south-taranaki-toddler Police have arrested a man following the death of a toddler in South Taranaki at the weekend. Emergency services were called to a Hawera address about 11pm on Friday. Ambulance and police attended but were not able to revive the two-year-old girl. Detective Senior Sergeant Brent Matuku said the family had been provided with…
Brain Trauma Gave Them Intense Sexual Desires
“They showed me on the picture, the white spots on the brain stem. [The doctor] said, ‘That’s all blood,’” Andy told “20/20.” “And he said, ‘It’s not good, and she’s probably not going to survive.’” Andy said that in a way he did lose his wife that day. “The wife that I married died on…
#Psychotherapy Blog: Overcoming the Traumatic Effects of #Childhood #Trauma
#Psychotherapy Blog: Overcoming the Traumatic Effects of #Childhood #Trauma http://t.co/4AXJERGP9S #mentalhealth #therapy — Josephine Ferraro (@J_Ferraro_LCSW) October 9, 2014
Denial exists in any disorder caused by trauma
Denial is a psychological way of coping – find out how denial is a part of trauma and dissociative disorders… http://t.co/4ozQWooIaj — TraumaDissociation (@TraumaDID) September 27, 2014 Denial is common in Dissociative Identity Disorder, and exists in any disorder caused by trauma. Denial is a psychological defense mechanism,[1]:24 it plays a role in keeping the…
Website – “Trauma-Stressor and Dissociative Disorders Project”
http://www.dissociative-identity-disorder.net/wiki/Trauma-dissociation Psychological trauma is the key making up what is known as the dissociative disorders and the trauma-stressor disorders in the DSM-5. Nowhere has information been selected and presented as it is here. The project has pride in offering only the most recent information and facts and theory as presented by the top experts in…