When you suffer from trauma, it’s often helpful for you when you can understand why you respond to certain stimuli in certain ways. For many trauma victims, their brains interpret dangerous situations, or what they perceive to be dangerous situations in entirely different ways than others do. The questions are: What exactly happens [...]
Many traumatic experiences occur in childhood. It’s very common for a child to experience something when he’s young only to have it leave a lasting, traumatic effect on him for the rest of his life. These experiences can be major, such as a severe physically abusive relationship with a parent, or they can be [...]
Prescription drug abuse is very common, and it’s not usually something that anyone intends to happen. Perhaps you’re concerned that your prescription medication abuse is getting out of hand and it has turned into a full-blown addiction. There are several signs that can tell you whether or not this is the case. Fortunately, prescription [...]
As a parent, you can’t help but worry about your kids, and you especially worry about whether or not they will use drugs. There are several critical risk factors for teen drug addiction that will allow you to assess your own children to determine their risk. It is my hope that understanding more about [...]
If you’ve struggled with alcohol abuse in the past, and now you are an alcoholic, you may be wondering about what the contributing factors are of alcohol abuse were for you. You probably have many questions, such as: Am I at a greater risk of alcoholism than someone else? Is my past a [...]
Sex addiction is a hot topic, and there is a lot of discussion about whether or not there is a difference between male and female sex addiction. Whether you are a man or a woman, having a sex addiction can be a daily battle with yourself. It’s possible that you have been struggling to [...]
If you’re a victim of trauma, you may have noticed that one of the things you experience from time to time is the inability to speak. This probably happens whenever you come across something that triggers a flashback. Your body responds by eliciting a type of panic response and you immediately experience physical symptoms [...]
In continuing to understand trauma and how it affects someone who has undergone a traumatic event in his or her life, it’s important to consider the brain’s physiological response and how that can affect a person’s emotional state. Time is not a Factor Trauma, when it is left untreated, has no regard [...]
In previous posts, we worked on forming an understanding about what trauma is and how it can affect your day-to-day life. Whether the event that caused the trauma was a major one or a minor one, the trauma itself is not limited to that event alone. It’s actually the impression or the imprint that has [...]
For a person who is suffering from trauma, it is an everyday ordeal that never seems to go away. It affects them, but it also affects the people who love them the most. It can be difficult to understand trauma when you’re the victim, and understanding it as the loved one of a victim [...]