Dissociation

    From this cishet ally, to all the LGBTQIA+ folx out there: I see you, I believe you. I will support and defend. And to fellow non-community members…. It’s important to acknowledge that queer folks and their rights are currently under attack. The trans…

In honor of LGBTQIA+ history month, here is a quote from James Baldwin was a gay, Black American writer and civil rights activist: “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they…

There are a lot of misunderstandings out there about EMDR therapy & what can & what cannot be changed or addressed with it. So let’s get into it. EMDR myth: Can’t be safely used with Dissociative Disorders EMDR truth: There’s a benefit in using EMDR…

In Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg writes, “The DSM is more like a catalogue of current social ailments, than scientific, hardwired diseases. In Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler writes of what she calls psychiatric imperialism, whereby normal responses to trauma are methodically pathologized in science…

Suicide is a solution sought to what is experienced as unendurable pain and is absolutely a mental health issue, and an epidemic in the US. AND there are a lot of things that are not about mental health that need to be part of our…

In honor of September being CPTSD Awareness month, let’s talk about what CPTSD is. CPTSD stands for Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and it develops as the result of repeated and on-going trauma. The fact that the trauma is chronic, it therefore results in more…