It’s because it’s traumatic that memories can be repressed, not in spite of. It’s not the same as saying you forget what you had for breakfast three days ago where your mind just never puts it in long term memory. Memories of trauma don’t go through the normal process of how the brain handles everyday things … Continue reading Question: How is it possible that the brain forgets abuse if its such a traumatizing event?
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Symptom Explainer: Why Symptoms sometimes worsen overtime
Trauma itself did affect you at the time of abuse, on a neurological level. Trauma, especially childhood trauma, reworks brain development. Trauma changes the size and development of sections our brains. Knocks our neurotransmitters, endocrine systems and the sympathetic nervous system out of whack (other changes as well). Symptomatology can vary between people and throughout … Continue reading Symptom Explainer: Why Symptoms sometimes worsen overtime
Symptom Explainer: Why Abuse May Feel Unreal
Feeling like what happened to you isn’t real is a very common phenomenon with survivors of child sexual abuse. Here we will look at what fuels this sensation. Some of the main factors include poor memory, denial of trauma, personal downplaying of trauma, societal pressure, and emotional/psychological abuse. Poor memory of childhood trauma is often … Continue reading Symptom Explainer: Why Abuse May Feel Unreal
Symptom Explainers: Flashbacks
What are Flashbacks? Flashbacks are a psychological phenomena during which a person relives a past event or fragments of a past experience. They generally occur involuntarily, abruptly entering a person’s minds without the aid of premeditation or conscious attempts to recall the memory. They can be extremely intense. As flashbacks involve past events, they may … Continue reading Symptom Explainers: Flashbacks
Symptom Explainers: Body Memories
Also called Somatic Flashbacks Body memories are a kind of flashback specifically of somatic symptoms. It’s a flashback that instead of visual or auditory memories of traumatic events being relived it's the sensations and sensory inputs of your other 3 senses (touch/smell/taste). Flashbacks are usually triggered by reminders of the abuse. These can be mundane … Continue reading Symptom Explainers: Body Memories
Symptoms Explainer: What is Hypersexuality?
Hypersexuality is defined as preoccupations with and impulsive acts around sex. To be hypersexuality it must cause discomfort or dysfunction for the person experiencing it. Sometimes incorrectly referred to as sex addiction. It's detrimental to the functioning of the person with it. Hypersexuality is experienced by those who experience episodes of mania, personality disorders, OCD, … Continue reading Symptoms Explainer: What is Hypersexuality?
Symptom Explainer: Anger from abuse, and ways to handle it
Hey! Trouble dealing with anger is common as there is often a lot of anger associated with the abuse in the first place. Anger at abusers, yourself and/or people who never protected them are common for many abuse survivours. Another factor is if you never learned to cope with anger as a kid, which is … Continue reading Symptom Explainer: Anger from abuse, and ways to handle it
Informational Article: Remembering Abuse Later in Life
remembering your abuse years later does not make it any less real. you might think it’s a lie, or fake, or you are making it up. you wouldn’t make something that horrible up. what was done was horrific, but it’s in the past. by repressing the memory your body chose to survive. an important quote … Continue reading Informational Article: Remembering Abuse Later in Life
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