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Book review: 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery - Take-Charge Strategies To Empower Your Healing Babette Rothschild - While you are moving toward recovery, there are things you can do to make it a better journey
Book review: Resolving the anxiety dilemma - Dylan M. Kollman - Anxiety is your friend…until it isn’t, at which point you will do well to have this book at hand
Book review: The body keeps the score - Bessel van der Kolk - a highly original contribution from a trauma research pioneer

SEE ALSO Guidebook for a good life - Practical, focused ideas for achieving and maintaining a life that works

About my PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) - For YOU to give to other adults, to help them understand your PTSD
Anxiety and mindfulness meditation - A self-managed intervention with no noxious side effects
Challenge walking - Using your positive body sense to transform negative emotional learning and memory
Deepening self-awareness in the early stages of psychotherapy - Knowing more enables doing more
Explaining your PTSD to your children - A little gentle reassurance can be so very helpful
Feelings - is there more going on than you know? - How to discover ALL that you are feeling
Finding a good therapist - How to solve this problem thoughtfully and efficiently
Journaling as trauma therapy - New research validates the effectiveness of expressive writing
Medication problems? - How to find the best solution
Organic rule-outs - Six top-priority concerns when you’re having a bad day
SSRI anti-depressants can lead to emotional blunting - Effect seen in healthy subjects after 3 weeks of medication

Childhood influences adulthood - It matters more than you may think
Complex post-traumatic stress disorder explained - Many experts recognize that complex PTSD is a disorder in its own right
Memories of trauma are unique because of how brains and bodies respond to threat - A traumatic memory can be nearly impossible to shake
PTSD in sexual assault victims differs from that in combat veterans - Our picture of PTSD is inaccurate due to an overwhelming focus on PTSD in combat veterans
Threat detection can be an automatic, unconscious brain activity - Managing this is particularly important in trauma and dissociation disorders
Trauma- and trauma-related diagnoses - It’s more complex than you might think

Calling prostitution "Sex work" makes the problem worse - It’s cover-up language
Children must be protected in their earliest years - Serious mental and physical health risks in later life can be minimized if we do this
Childhood adversity is a ‘cause of causes’ of adult illnesses and mental health problems - This public health hazard hides in plain sight
LGBTQ in America? That’s dangerous!- Americans violently abuse LGBTQ people 9 times more often than non-LGBTQ people
Mental Health and treatment - American views are becoming distinctly more positive
Parental violence against children has consequences - …And none of them are good
Rape - it’s effectively decriminalized in England and Wales - Why do so many men get away with rape? Police officers, survivors, lawyers and prosecutors on the scandal that shames the justice system
School shootings: At least 377 have occurred since Columbine - Well over a quarter of a million children have been exposed to this violence since 1999
Sexual abuse rampant in U.S. federal prisons - Bipartisan federal report finds abuse in the majority of prisons
Young children who are survivors of sexual abuse are not being heard - The &num;MeToo movement has not included young sexual abuse victims

Guidebook for a good life - Practical, focused ideas for achieving and maintaining a life that works
- A simple body-weight workout- Easy to start, easy to stick with
- Gratitude - getting started on a gratitude practice - Few things you can do will improve your mood more quickly!

Graphs and charts - Mental health and mental illness
- TDEA Facebook community demographics - Our Facebook community is international - here are the specifics

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page author: Tom Cloyd | reviewed 2024-04-23