Download or read book Loving Someone with PTSD written by Aphrodite T. Matsakis and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can present with a number of symptoms, including anxiety, depression, flashbacks, and trouble sleeping. If your partner has PTSD, you may want to help, but find yourself at a loss. The simple truth is that PTSD can be extremely debilitating—not just for the person who has experienced trauma first-hand, but for their partners as well. And while there are many books written for those suffering from PTSD, there are few written for the people who love them. In Loving Someone with PTSD, renowned trauma expert and author of I Can’t Get Over It!, Aphrodite Matsakis, presents concrete skills and strategies for the partners of those with PTSD. With this informative and practical book, you will increase your understanding of the signs and symptoms of PTSD, improve your communication skills with your loved one, set realistic expectations, and work to create a healthy environment for the both of you. In addition, you will learn to manage your own grief, helplessness, and fear regarding your partner’s condition. PTSD is a manageable disability. While it isn’t your responsibility to rescue your partner or act as his or her therapist, this book will help you be supportive and implement strategies for lessening the negative impact of PTSD—not just for your partner, but for your relationship, and, importantly, for yourself.
Download or read book Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma written by Megan Lara Negendank and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create a supportive and secure relationship with a partner who has experienced sexual trauma. If your partner is a survivor of sexual trauma, they may experience anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, or feel triggered by intimate situations. And you may feel confused, overwhelmed, or unsure of how to support them. This gentle guide will give you the tools you need to help nurture intimacy and trust, and cultivate a secure relationship. In Loving Someone Who Has Sexual Trauma, marriage, family, and sex therapist Megan Lara Negendank offers self-compassion and attachment-based communication skills to support your partner. You’ll also learn powerful, trauma-informed techniques and strategies to help you understand the full impact of your partner’s past experience, increase feelings of safety and connection, and ultimately improve your relationship in the here and now. In this gentle guide, you’ll discover: Communication skills to help promote trust How to avoid or deescalate from common triggers How to identify attachment styles and soothe conflict patterns Emotional and physical bonding skills If you’re ready to move beyond fear, anger, and disconnection to a thriving intimate relationship where you both can feel loved, safe, and connected, this book can help you get started.
Download or read book Avoid Dating PTSD written by TC Fox and published by TC Fox. This book was released on 2023-07-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you find it hard to get into the dating world in these modern times? The good news is that you are not alone. Whether you are trying to get back into the dating scene after a divorce or have been off the market for a while, we are all struggling. This mostly happens because times have changed and after not dating for a while, we lose touch with just how much goes into dating. It is a whole different world after you have been a victim of heartbreak previously. To begin your journey on uncharted territories, this book has a collection of do’s and don’ts. From the author’s personal experiences and lessons, readers will be able to get insight into how you can avoid repeating the same mistakes that landed you in your previous relationships that did not end well. As stressful as dating may seem, it is not that difficult to jump back into the dating pool. The book covers all the necessary information you may need before you begin your journey, such as you will be able to identify what signs define you as a love addict and if you are recovering from it. It also talks about hard-to-ignore topics like the PTSD that you can get by dating, how to identify a narcissist, and how to avoid them. Moreover, the book is filled with useful advice to keep yourself safe from potential dangers in dating that can be detrimental to your emotional, mental, as well as physical well-being.
Download or read book PTSD Post traumatic Stress Disorder written by Edgar L. Maroon and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: It's Okay to Ask for Help At least once in their lifetime, more than seventy percent of Americans will experience a disturbing event. An estimated twenty percent of people who share a stressful experience may also have post-traumatic stress disorder. Get help. Never give up!
Download or read book Let Buster Lead My Discovery of Love PTSD and Self Acceptance written by Deborah Dozier Potter and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly revised personal memoir about love, courage and healing, Deborah Dozier Potter shares her relationship with her Border Collie, Buster, from the day she met him at the animal shelter until the last moment of his life. But this isn’t a typical pet love story. The author met Buster while in a state of cynicism and grief following the death of her father and her new pet helped to restore her faith in life. Buster then helped her cope with a high-powered marriage, intense stress and faltering self-esteem. When she suffered major trauma in a horse accident, Buster stayed by her side, his herding dog instincts protecting her vulnerable and broken body. A year after the accident she became too tense to be touched by others or leave her home, unaware that she had developed a severe case of PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). She tells us how she discovered she had this disease and how Buster became her official service dog. She describes her struggle with PTSD symptoms, and what it was like to travel on airplanes and function in public with a disability. Buster, as a therapy dog, helped restore her mental health and self-assurance and lead her back into a normal life. This is their story.
Download or read book If We re Together Why Do I Feel So Alone written by Holly Parker, Ph.D. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard University lecturer and clinical psychologist Dr. Holly Parker offers a step-by-step guide for coping with emotionally unavailable partners. Living with an emotionally absent partner can be overwhelming. Constantly overcoming the silent distance can leave you with the sense that the give-and-take in your relationship has disappeared. But even a broken relationship can be reinvigorated. In helping real-world couples achieve a fulfilling future, Harvard University lecturer and clinical psychologist Dr. Holly Parker has developed a program filled with practical exercises and powerful advice for individuals on both sides of an emotionally damaged relationship. In If We’re Together, Why Do I Feel So Alone?, Dr. Parker presents her revelatory insights on topics such as: • How to identify unavailable personality types, such as the Critic, the Sponge, the Iceberg, the Emotional Silencer, and the Defender • How to create healthy emotional connections and boost physical intimacy • How to eliminate habits that trigger self-sabotaging behavior With patience, empathy, and willpower, Dr. Parker’s program can help you restore balance and peace of mind, and turn your damaged partnership back into a rewarding and joyful bond.
Download or read book Complex PTSD and Recovery written by Mike Proctor and published by Mike Proctor. This book was released on 2021-03-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is debilitating. Life seems to be on hold. Accomplishing the smallest of tasks takes all the stamina you can muster. Without treatment the symptoms get worst. Many suffer in silence. They simply don't have the energy or will power to leave the house and face the public to attend therapy appointments for help with their PTSD. That is where books come in handy. You can work on your healing in the privacy of your own home. I've written this book to help you on your road to recovery. I've written this book in an easy to follow format without a lot of unnecessary medical jargon. I've written this book precise and to the point to make it easy to read in one sitting so you will be able to apply the strategies I've shared right away. This book was written to help all those struggling to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and problems surrounding PTSD. It is human nature to dream. When we go to sleep at night, we dream of things only our brains could scope out. And as it is usual to dream, it is also usual to day dream. Day dreaming is different from dreaming in the sense that all outside stimuli can directly affect what goes on in your daydream, sounds, scents, what the wind feels like. But imagine what life would be like if you had constant and unending nightmares instead of dreams? Nightmares that are vivid and complete in all their lucidity. And even worse, if you were seeing these nightmares as day dreams in waking life and will all the accompaniment of sound, scents, and feeling that may not be to your benefit. Post-traumatic stress disorder, depending on any specific person, may be triggered by absolutely anything and these triggers when outside in society cannot exactly be predicated to happen or fully avoided. Post-traumatic stress disorder can be very difficult to deal with as it chooses neither time nor place and is caused by deep rooting trauma which may be far gone and hard to get rid of. This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to fully understand the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder, its causes, symptoms, and tests to diagnose its inhabitance in a person. This book also includes a list of treatment options in order to make the reader aware of all the choices he has.
Download or read book Complex Ptsd How to Heal From Trauma and Regain Emotional Control From Fear Anxiety Depression and Stress to Internal Wellbeing written by Ernest Nilsson and published by Ernest Nilsson. This book was released on 101-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to begin the steps for recovery from emotional or narcissistic abuse? If you answered yes to any of those questions, this narcissistic abuse workbook can help you with complex PTSD recovery so that you can enjoy a psychopath-free life! In this trauma and recovery workbook, you’ll discover the signs of mental abuse, the typical C-PTSD symptoms in women, and the steps to take to begin the process of healing from the psychological abuse you suffered at the hands of a narcissistic man. Inside, you will discover: · How to Identify Complex PTSD Symptoms · How to Rewrite Your Personal Narrative to Overcome Negative Self-Perception · How Trauma Dictates Your Inner Narrative Through Thoughts and Reactions · Effective Methods To Conquer Stressed-Based Fear · How to Improve Your Interpersonal Relationships · How to Recognize & Stop Patterns of Avoidance That Hold You Back · Strategies for Managing Emotional Triggers and Deregulation · … And So Much More This workbook is for those ready to take life by the reigns and regain control. In this guide, you’ll learn to retrain the mind in order to finally be able to understand your trauma, and lead a fulfilling life in spite of it. The best time to start active recovery was yesterday.
Download or read book Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD Practices for Recovery and Resilience written by Rachel Goldsmith Turow and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How mindfulness can help trauma survivors move to places of healing. Trauma touches every life, but the way that we hold our pain makes a difference. Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD provides user-friendly descriptions of the many facets of traumatic stress alongside evidence-based strategies to manage trauma symptoms and build new strengths. This book is a valuable resource for trauma survivors, health professionals, researchers, mindfulness practitioners, and others seeking new pathways to recovery and resilience. It is normal to feel anxious or depressed after trauma, and to have upsetting thoughts and memories. Instead of fighting our feelings and blaming ourselves for what are actually common responses to trauma, mindfulness practices can help us tolerate and decrease distress, cultivate kindness towards ourselves and others, make wise choices, navigate attention, improve relationships, and relax—capacities that reduce trauma symptoms and advance our overall well-being. Practicing the small stuff can help us with the big stuff. As we learn to notice our breathing, walking, minor frustrations or daily activities with curiosity and care, we build inner resources to skillfully handle past trauma, as well as current and future challenges. Mindfulness practices can transform self-blame into self-respect and self-compassion. We can also match specific mindfulness skills to particular trauma symptoms. For example, “grounding” with the five senses can help us when we feel overwhelmed or spaced out, and loving-kindness meditation can alleviate self-criticism. With this book, you will explore scientifically supported mindfulness practices, plus “In their own words” sections that illustrate the skills with personal stories demonstrating how mindfulness practices have helped others recover from trauma. “Research highlight” sections showcase fascinating scientific studies that form the basis for the book's approaches. As we practice effective strategies to handle a full range of experiences, we can each find new sources of hope, connection, and peace.
Download or read book PTSD and Relationships written by Diana Giorgetti, MSEdL and published by Diana Giorgetti. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decision to write this was born out of a deep desire to help others achieve happiness despite the presence of PTSD in their lives and the lives of their loved ones. Everyone deserves to be happy, but not everyone knows how to accomplish happiness and self-fulfillment, especially those who are actively affected by symptoms of PTSD and those who want to love them. Conquering the PTSD related symptoms that affect a person’s life and prevent them from loving and being loved is very rewarding and can be accomplished with the right support, the right partner, and the right type of love. Whether you fell in love with someone who has PTSD, or your current (or former) partner developed PTSD after a traumatic experience during your relationship, most people in romantic relationships with someone affected by PTSD have little knowledge of what is needed to make the relationship work. This applies to both the PTSD sufferer and the non-PTSD partner.
Download or read book The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for PTSD written by Kirby Reutter and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pragmatic workbook offers evidence-based skills grounded in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you find lasting relief from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If you’ve experienced trauma, you should know that there is nothing wrong with you. Trauma is a normal reaction to an abnormal event. Sometimes, the symptoms of trauma persist long after the traumatic situation has ceased. This is what we call PTSD—in other words, the “trauma after the trauma.” This happens when the aftereffects of trauma—such anxiety, depression, anger, fear, insomnia, and even addiction—end up causing more ongoing harm than the trauma itself. So, how can you start healing? With this powerful and proven-effective workbook, you’ll find practical exercises for overcoming trauma using mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. You’ll learn how to be present in the moment and identity the things that trigger your trauma. You’ll also find activities and exercises to help you cope with stress, manage intense emotions, navigate conflict with others, and change unhealthy thought patterns that keep you stuck. Finally, you’ll find practical materials for review and closure, so you can take what you’ve learned out into the world with you. If you’re ready to move past your trauma and start living your life again, this workbook will help guide you, one step at a time. The practical interventions in this guide can be used on their own or in conjunction with therapy.
Download or read book I Love a Cop Third Edition written by Ellen Kirschman and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Police officers today face unprecedented challenges--anti-police sentiment, increased danger, massive public scrutiny, and the ever-present threat of terrorism. Now thoroughly updated, this trusted resource has already helped over 125,000 police families manage the stress of the job and create a supportive home environment where everyone can thrive. The third edition includes new stories from police families, new chapters on relationships and living through troubled times, and fully updated resources. Discussions of trauma and resilience, domestic abuse, and addictions have been expanded with the latest information and practical advice. Whether they read the book cover to cover or refer to it when problems arise, families will find no-nonsense guidance they can depend on. Mental health professionals, see also Counseling Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know, by Ellen Kirschman, Mark Kamena, and Joel Fay.
Download or read book Trauma and PTSD written by Cathy Chapman and published by Light Technology Publishing. This book was released on with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is difficult not to be emotionally involved in this human realm since emotions are a critical part of this planet. You already know the best way not to experience trauma: Remain in your heart source. Trauma begins in your life when you come into your physical body before birth. Trauma is held in your body even before your soul enters it. Because trauma affects your energy bodies, typical psychological therapy — cognitive or behavioral — does not cure those effects. Trauma must be addressed in layers that include all your bodies, energetic and physical. This is why resolving trauma takes much time. On the emotional level, you begin to doubt who you are. You might experience anxiety or depression and forget who you are. You worry about what is going to happen in life and whether things will ever get better. What does that do? It causes problems on the emotional and the spiritual levels because you forget the marvelousness of who you are. Your happiness and contentment come from within. It does not depend on your situation. After experiencing a trauma, everything has changed, and you have to find the new you. What you believe about yourself is going to assist your recovery. If you believe you are only useful if you can walk and now you can no longer walk, your life loses its meaning based on your beliefs. You need new beliefs. Focus on yourself during this healing process. You are the most important individual in this whole practice. When you do this for yourself, your healing affects others, increasing the light in the world.
Download or read book Treating Co occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction written by Lisa R. Fortuna and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has shown that, for many teens, trauma can lead to addiction. Now, for the first time ever, two mental health experts offer a powerful, integrative program to effectively treat teens with these co-occurring issues. Trauma and addiction often present side by side. However, up until now, clinicians have lacked the tools needed to treat these two issues together. Based in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness—two proven-effective therapies for addiction and mental health issues—Treating Co-occurring Adolescent PTSD and Addiction is essential for anyone working with adolescents with addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Developed and researched explicitly for dual diagnosis adolescent clients, this book provides a range of mindfulness practices and tools to help your client be present in what he or she is experiencing—instead of slipping into a pattern of avoidance. In addition, the cognitive behavioral strategies can help adolescents who are at risk of recurrent trauma, and who could therefore benefit from practicing coping strategies to assist them in their current daily situations. This is a must-have resource for any mental health provider treating adolescents with dual diagnosis of PTSD and addiction.
Download or read book PTSD written by Simon Pierce and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, has long been misunderstood, even by medical and psychological professionals. Formerly called shell-shock, it was considered a disorder that exclusively affected soldiers. Today, this myth persists, and many people are still unaware that any traumatic event can be the catalyst for PTSD. Understanding the facts about this disorder helps young adults learn the best way to interact with a loved one who has it or learn whether their own symptoms warrant seeking further help. Annotated quotes from medical experts, detailed graphs, and full-color photographs show readers this disorder from all sides.
Download or read book Break the Cycle written by Dr. Mariel Buqué and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ***The Instant National Bestseller*** A Next Big Idea Club must-read title for January 2024 The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room—from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University–trained trauma-informed psychologist and practitioner of holistic healing From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches readers how trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and how they can break the cycle through tangible therapeutic practices, learning to pass down strength instead of pain to future generations. When a physical wound is left unhealed, it continues to cause pain and can infect the whole body. When emotions are left unhealed, they similarly cause harm that spreads to other parts of our lives, hurting our family, friends, community members, and others. Eventually, this hurt can injure an entire lineage, metastasizing across years and generations. This is intergenerational trauma. This trauma is why some of us become estranged from our families, why some of us are people pleasers, why some of us find ourselves in codependent relationships. This trauma can be rooted in the experiences of ancestors, who may have suffered due to unhealthy family dynamics, and it can be collective, the result of a shared experience like systemic oppression, or harmful ingrained behaviors in a culture like the acceptance of physical discipline of children, or even a natural disaster like a pandemic. These wounds are complex, impacting our minds, bodies, and spirits. Healing requires a holistic approach that has so far been absent from the field of psychology. Until now.
Download or read book PTSD written by Barbara Olasov Rothbaum and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and who experiences it? Why do some people develop PTSD after a traumatic event, while others do not? What are the unique impacts of trauma on children? Are there effective treatments for traumatic stress disorders? PTSD: What Everyone Needs to Know� is a scientifically-supported yet accessible resource on a disorder that affects up to 7% of adults during their lifetime. Utilizing a reader-friendly Q&A format, the book demystifies and defines PTSD, explaining that, despite popular opinion and countless media portrayals, this is not simply a disorder for combat veterans. Instead, survivors of any life-threatening event can experience PTSD. Beginning with an overview of common types of trauma, internationally-renowned experts on traumatic stress Barbara Rothbaum and Sheila Rauch then go on to describe the effects of PTSD, what can trigger the disorder, and who is likely to experience it. They explain how the most effective treatments work, and guide readers on how to be a source of support and understanding for those who have experienced trauma. Drawing attention to the pervasiveness of traumatic experiences in our lives and in culture and society, PTSD: What Everyone Needs to Know� is a must-read for anyone seeking authoritative and current information about this often misunderstood disorder.
