What is Neuroplasticity? Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to reshape its neural pathways. Neurons in the brain that fire together, tend to create a bond
Personality disorders are types of mental health conditions that can affect severely traumatised individuals. They range in terms of severity and, if not addressed and treated, they can lead to consistent, long-term, unhealthy patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving which inevitably can have an enormously detrimental effect on the person suffering with the illness and anyone close to them.
Mindfulness teaches us to re-orientate our lives so that we can enjoy them to the full. Those who practice mindfulness become more aware in securing a healthy balance between doing and being, and becoming fully attentive to the present moment.
Often the root cause of mental illnesses or addictions is a nervous system that has been reorganised in an unbalanced way as a result of its inability to integrate a traumatic experience.
Many people may not understand the reverberations of growing up in a dysfunctional household. Every house varies in the level of dysfunction witnessed by the children of that home. Most households experience some form of dysfunction at one time or another.
Guilt is a common emotional response experienced by people who have been through traumatic experiences. This article seeks to explore the relationship between guilt and trauma.
Do you feel like you are not only minimising your trauma, but also the progress you are making in recovering from it? This can be damaging both to you and to your recovery.
Do you feel like you spend a lot of your time worrying about how you are perceived by others? Do you often feel “less than”, or over-analyse each of your words and actions once you have left a situation? If you feel like this, it’s very possible that you are suffering from low self esteem that could be attributed to your trauma.
Psychological assessments are a fantastic way for psychologists and treatment centers to diagnose you for disorders and gauge where you’re at in your processes of
One woman described her experience with dissociation on The Mighty. Here is an excerpt from her story: “I don’t look any different than anyone else.