Silent Mind

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3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 4

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Which physical symptom is hardest for you to deal when you have CPTSD?

1 month ago | [YT] | 5

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1 month ago | [YT] | 2

Silent Mind

Holidays have a way of bringing up emotions we thought we had already worked through, especially when you live with CPTSD. Thanksgiving is one of those days where the world tells you to feel grateful, connected, and joyful, but your nervous system might be telling a completely different story. If the day brings up grief instead of gratitude, or loneliness instead of warmth, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong. This is actually a very common and very human response for people who grew up in chaotic, neglectful, or unpredictable environments.

CPTSD wires the brain to expect danger or disconnection even when nothing threatening is happening. The brainstem goes on alert, the amygdala activates old emotional memories, and the body starts bracing for something familiar but painful. Holidays often serve as reminders of the moments when your needs were ignored or your feelings were dismissed. That is why these days can feel heavier, quieter, or more overwhelming than normal, and none of it means you are broken or behind in your healing.

When old memories surface on days like Thanksgiving, it is not a setback. It is your nervous system giving you a chance to understand what still hurts and what still needs presence, compassion, and repair. Many people think healing means never feeling these emotions again, but real trauma recovery means learning how to meet them with a different response. Instead of shutting down, instead of abandoning yourself, instead of pretending everything is fine, you are choosing to stay aware. That is progress. That is growth. That is the work.

If you are spending the day alone, or if you feel alone even in a room full of people, it does not say anything about your worth or your future. Loneliness in CPTSD is a nervous system state, not a life sentence. You are learning how to build safety from the inside out, one moment at a time. You are rebuilding trust with yourself. You are learning what healthy connection actually feels like. You are learning how to stop shrinking yourself for others. None of that happens overnight, and none of that should be judged by a single holiday.

Today is not the end of your story. The version of you that exists on the other side of this season is someone with more clarity, more emotional strength, and more self-trust. Healing does not always feel good in the moment, but it always moves you toward something better. If today feels heavy, let it be heavy and still know that it will not stay this way forever. You are doing the work. You are breaking the patterns. You are building a life that will not resemble the one you survived.

You are not alone today. You are healing, even if it is quiet.

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1 month ago | [YT] | 7

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2 months ago | [YT] | 4

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New Video UP discussing the CPTSD and Signs of Healing

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Healing from Complex PTSD is not what most people think it is. It is not a straight line, it is not always peaceful, and it definitely does not feel like a spa day for your soul. Healing from CPTSD often looks like crying in your car, setting boundaries that make people uncomfortable, and learning to sit with silence without assuming the world is ending. But beneath all that, something powerful is happening. Your nervous system is learning safety. Your brain is literally rewiring itself. And your sense of self is coming back online after years of survival mode.

In this video, we break down the five major signs that you are healing from Complex PTSD. These signs are not glamorous or dramatic. They are subtle, steady, and deeply meaningful. You will learn how to recognize the moments when your nervous system shifts from chaos to calm, when you start catching triggers in real time, and when boundaries stop feeling like acts of rebellion and start feeling like acts of self respect.

We will also talk about why peace can feel threatening at first. For many survivors, chaos was love, and calm felt like danger. Learning to live without constant stress takes time, patience, and a lot of nervous system retraining. But the moment you start feeling okay with calm, that is one of the first signs your brain is healing.

CPTSD recovery also involves learning to trust yourself again. When you have spent years walking on eggshells, you lose faith in your own judgment. Healing means learning to feel your feelings without being consumed by them. It means noticing your body’s reactions and responding with compassion instead of shame. It means understanding that triggers are not signs of weakness, they are signs of where the wounds still live.

We will cover why self awareness is the most powerful tool in recovery, how your prefrontal cortex comes back online during healing, and why the ability to pause before reacting is one of the biggest markers of progress. You will see that healing is not about never being triggered again. It is about becoming unshakable when you are.

This video is a mix of education, neuroscience, and humor, all aimed at helping you understand what is actually happening inside your brain as you heal from CPTSD. If you have ever wondered whether you are really making progress, this will help you see that healing does not always look like what you expect. Sometimes, it is the quiet moments that tell the loudest story.

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2 months ago | [YT] | 3

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Brief History of CPTSD

Complex PTSD also known as CPTSD has a long history of being ignored misunderstood and pushed aside in the mental health field. The roots go back to the 1970s when psychologists began noticing trauma in Vietnam veterans. At that time the focus was entirely on combat trauma and single events. Survivors of childhood abuse neglect and long term relational trauma were not even considered. When PTSD was officially added to the DSM in 1980 it was defined strictly around life threatening single events like war car accidents or natural disasters. This was an important step forward but it left out millions of people who had lived through years of abuse abandonment and instability.

In the mid 1980s Dr Judith Herman recognized that these survivors were showing a different profile of symptoms. She noticed severe emotional dysregulation identity issues shame struggles with trust and major difficulties in relationships. This was not the same thing as PTSD. She proposed the term Complex PTSD. In 1992 she published the book Trauma and Recovery which laid out the full picture of what chronic trauma does to the brain and to a person’s identity. But the psychiatric establishment chose not to recognize it. The reasons were political financial and practical. Treating complex trauma requires time and long term therapy which is more expensive and more complicated for the insurance system.

By 1994 when the DSM IV was released CPTSD was still not included. Instead many survivors were misdiagnosed with borderline personality disorder depression anxiety or bipolar disorder. The core issue of long term trauma was hidden behind other labels. Through the 1990s and 2000s research continued to show the unique impact of complex trauma yet the field largely ignored it. In 2013 the DSM 5 made small changes to the PTSD criteria by adding symptoms like negative self beliefs but still there was no recognition of CPTSD as its own category.

Finally in 2018 the World Health Organization officially recognized Complex PTSD in the ICD 11. This was a major breakthrough. For the first time CPTSD became an official diagnosis on the global stage. But the United States which still relies heavily on the DSM has not caught up. This means that many survivors in the US are still struggling to get the right diagnosis and the right kind of trauma informed treatment.

Today more therapists coaches researchers and survivors are speaking out. CPTSD is real it is researched and it affects millions of people. The history of how it was pushed aside shows why so many survivors have felt invisible and misunderstood. But the tide is changing. Awareness is spreading and people are finally getting the language to describe what they have lived through. If you are a survivor know this you are not broken you are not misdiagnosed you are living with the effects of complex trauma and healing is possible.

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