#trauma informative

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About dissociation in childhood, from Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect (pp. 148-150)

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Idk if anyone's posted this before but if you want a good primer on ACEs (adverse childhood experiences) please check out this online course. It's free & only 50 minutes, plus you get a certificate once you're done. I really recommend it for everyone. Especially because not many people understand dissociation and childhood trauma even though the basic information is right here.

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Parents in Conflict and the Children Who Live Through the Trauma - The Wave Clinic

In this article, we explore the relationship between conflict at home and later mental health concerns leading to Complex Trauma responses i

"Conflict in the home does not always mean interpersonal violence. Frequent heated arguments, speaking badly of the other parent, discussing finance or infidelities, or allowing children to read communication designed for adults all create worry, fear, and sadness. These wounds can last a lifetime."

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"Even though certain events are more likely to be traumatizing, there is considerable variation in how individuals react to these events; if someone successfully deals with an event that others might see as extremely stressful, that event cannot be viewed as traumatizing for that person (Nijenhuis, 2015). Accordingly, one can conceptualize trauma as an individual’s ‘breaking‐point’ when faced with events that are, for him or her, personally overwhelming."

Moskowitz et al. on the definition of trauma, from "Defining Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation" in Psychosis, Dissociation, and Trauma: Evolving Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology (pp.17-18)

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"Consistent with DSM-IV and DSM-5 descriptions of dissociative flashbacks episodes . . . and new empirical findings that PTSD, DID, and DDNOS are related syndromes . . . we contend that the re-enactment of traumatic memories is a dissociative phenomenon, and that PTSD constitutes a dissociative disorder of a lesser degree."

Ellert Nijenhuis on PTSD being a dissociative disorder, from The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control (Volume II) (p.377)

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Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation on understanding the nature of dissociated parts (pp.165-167)

Core concepts from this section:

“Personality, identity, and self are not actual things. They are terms that give a broad and condensed impression of who we are to others and to ourselves. We do not have a self like we have a brain or a heart. Instead, our minds construct a continually evolving story about who we are; this is what we call our ‘self.’ Patients with dissociative disorders subjectively experience their selves and personalities as fragmented, and often as outside of their voluntary control and awareness. Normally, our sense of self is continually updated as we learn from and reflect upon both new and old experiences. Dissociative patients seem unable to sufficiently engage in this natural revision, leaving them with relatively rigid and divided selves.”