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Childhood Trauma: How We Learn to Lie, Hide, and Be Inauthentic

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Bad examples Article β†’ Back to Around the Web The post Childhood Trauma: How We Learn to Lie, Hide, and Be Inauthentic appeared first on Mad In America. Punished for telling the truth 2. Contradictory standards 3. Disbelieved or not taken seriously 4. Punished for feeling certain emotions 5.

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Dear Psychiatrist – I Survived

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I was having nightmares and flashbacks from childhood trauma that I had successfully hidden in the recesses of my mind until that time. You said this when I described my nightmares and flashbacks and the confusion and terror I had as I remembered my childhood trauma. β€œIt I had just had surgery to have my thyroid removed.

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Lost in Psychobabble? Cut Through the Jargon for Real Mental Clarity

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Clinically speaking, early childhood trauma often leads to insecure attachment styles and maladaptive survival strategies. While some neurological and genetic conditions may exist, they are less common than often assumed. Even these conditions can be managed and mitigated through a modified version of this approach.

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A Love Letter to the Mad

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In that hellish month a lot happened: I became aware of my childhood trauma; I learned to love myself; I made huge insights about myself and the world around me; I began to realize my world was upside down. Its been almost 2 years since I was first diagnosed as bipolar. I was hospitalized after a taxing and stressful month.

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Trauma? Not Me

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There was a time in my life when I packaged up all of the emotions and memories from my childhood trauma and stored them in a zip file within an archive folder of my mind. I thought, ‘I survived my childhood, so I will put that behind me and move forward.’ ’ Sadly, it doesn’t work that way, though.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

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Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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The Power Dynamics of Psychedelic Therapy

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Or, my childhood trauma of feeling like at any moment, if I didn’t do what I was supposed to do, I could be shamed or punished according to the rules of obedience training my parents learned from Dr. Rather than the therapist innately trusting the initial impulse of the client for the change in music, there is an element of mistrust.