What if I lose what little control I have left? I may live in a prison now, but at least I know my way around it.

Understanding trauma and that we each respond to it differently will help us be supportive and nonjudgmental toward each other.

The symptomatology of PTSD.In PTSD a traumatic event is not remembered and relegated to one’s past in the same way as other life events. Trauma continues to intrude with visual, auditory, and/or other somatic reality...

He remembered the old-timers from his navy days. Grizzled lifers who could soundly sleep while two meters away their shipmates played a raucous game of poker or watched the vids with the volume all the...

Where is your Revolutionary spirit?””Beheaded,” Celeste said.

We are Craiglockhart’s success stories. Look at us. We don’t remember, we don’t feel, we don’t think – at least beyond the confines of what’s needed to do the job. By any proper civilized standard...

Phrases such as “I’m beside myself,” “I was frightened to pieces,” “I feel lost,” “I feel like part of me is missing,” originated from a sense of soul loss.

Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After ‘Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

Celeste.” Jack grinned. “How every appropriate. An angel sent from heaven to relieve my boredom.””An artist sent from France to paint your brother’s estate,” she retorted.”Touché’. In that case we should get down to business.

Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse:Almost all People who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their emotions and surges or impulses. However, those with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders tend...

PTSD is a whole-body tragedy, an integral human event of enormous proportions with massive repercussions.