I’m taking a break from the list of best practices because I don’t really want to write about the next one so I am giving myself permission to wait one day. I think the list is important because it gives a bit of insight of therapy from the perspective of the therapist. It is slow…
Every once in a while I come across a statement that is so cloaked in psycho babble that it hardly makes sense. This is one of those time. Continuing with the best practices: https://www.blueknot.org.au/Workers-Practitioners/For-Health-Professionals/Resources-for-Health-Professionals/Best-Practice-Guidelines Understand and attune to the prevalence and varied forms of dissociative responses, the differences between hyper and hypoarousal, and the need to…
Do people that were abused have attachment issues? The question really needs a sarcasm font. The first person that a baby gains attachment to is the first caregiver. If the caregiver is the one that abuses, neglects and harm that relationship, what does the baby connect to? Sometimes no one. In the list of best…
Can be detrimental to your health and relationships. I mentioned in my last post about Rescuer’s High. This is the feeling you get when you come in and fix everything for someone else. The rush of feeling like a hero even if the solution was detrimental to the person being rescued. I didn’t understand the…
I am moving slowly through this list of best practices from the perspective of the therapist. I’m trying to add in my perspective as a client. Hopefully, it comes off as helpful and not confusing. I know that with the hundreds of conversations I had with my counselor there were several times that he understood…
One of the powerful things taught to me by my first counselor that my ‘symptoms’ of PTSD were actually life adaptions that worked for me at the time of trauma. Of course, the issue was that they were maladaptive for living a more settled life. In the list of best practices, one of the concepts…
Does not fit all. I studied PTSD for over 15 years now. I am noticing a growing trend towards one therapy should work for everyone. Hogwash. If I went to an eye doctor he would not give me the same prescription as the person before me. The one thing really awesome about my first counselor…
