Tag: dealing with trauma
Training Days: Surthriving an Execution, Antidepressants, then Myself — A Cop’s...
Recovery from PTSD and from all the drugs I was prescribed was a journey filled with ups and downs, setbacks, and breakthroughs.
No Graphic Detail: The Injustice of Being Silenced
They tell us we’re too fragile to speak our own truth, and that those around us are too fragile to hear it. If you must name what happened to you, at least slap a “trigger warning” on yourself, and don’t “paint a picture.” Fuck that. The truth is that graphic detail can make some of us stronger in a way that silence never could.
Trauma Blocks the Frontal Lobes – “Verbal Physiotherapy” Can Unblock Them
Trauma makes the speech centers of the brain shut down. This is why talking about abuse is so difficult: the words are blocked. If you reclassify trauma effects as trauma-strokes, and you adapt physiotherapy to take this clinical evidence into account, then you come up with Verbal Physiotherapy.
The Biochemical Basis for “Mental Illness” – Finally Solved!
I wanted to explain to you the biochemical and genetic and epigentic basis for all "mental illness." I want you to know that I...
