Academic Articles

[alovelycreature]

Links! Some of my mindfulness stuff is geared towards older adults (because of my job ), enjoy!

Trauma (possible trigger warnings!):
https://app.box.com/s/9j76l86ezfcgbx80285v

CBT Manual:
https://app.box.com/s/p5qr1j61ladsznedabdn

Art Therapy:
https://app.box.com/s/wlxm8rybbcb0jo5nktsc

Mindfulness:
https://app.box.com/s/rm1g7gxd0x663l3bmqrd

[steamy]

I recommend the article by Sandra Bloom, pete walker mentions it in his book. There is probably nothing new there if you have been reading for some time, but its a nice document for relatives or people new to CPTSD, it has given me a lot of comfort.

Here's a link.

http://www.sanctuaryweb.com/Portals/0/Bloom%20Pubs/2000%20Bloom%20Email%20Grief%20that%20Dares%20Ravages%201.pdf

http://sanctuaryweb.com/Portals/0/Bloom%20Pubs/2000%20Bloom%20Email%20Grief%20That%20Dares%20Ravages%202.pdf

http://sanctuaryweb.com/Portals/0/Bloom%20Pubs/2000%20Bloom%20Email%20Grief%20That%20Dares%20Ravages%203.pdf

[steamy]

Since my current stint of employment is coming to an end, very likely due to my irritability and hyper-sensitivity to stress and anxiety, I saw certain things in my employer as potential threats and over reacted, such as late payment of salary and excessive deductions, I have tended to wonder how much of this is "me" and how much is attributed to past events. As a society we tend to judge people on their behaviour, and we are told that we are responsible for it. If I lose my temper because I see no other way to respond to a certain threat, it is me or my CPTSD? Since my parents have often blamed me as a child for the outcomes of situations between us, and as an adult I have been constantly in trouble of one kind or another, it seems that these problems are getting worse. I started to think that perhaps I have inherited traits from past generations, I come from three generations of soldiers, all saw active service from Flanders, through Dunkirk and North Africa to Aden and myself in the middle east in 1991.  On the one hand soldiering felt comfortable and on the other I am unable to fit into normal interactions on an everyday level. I wondered if animals pass of traits for survival, which are epi-genetic, could we be inheriting PTSD "behaviours" and traits from our famillies. In this paper they did a review of research into inheritability of PTSD, what I read into it is that on some level we are pre-coded to deal with high levels of trauma.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136568/