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INTENSE EMOTIONS, TRIGGERS, AND RESPONSES IN INDIVIDUALS WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER (BPD). A study conducted by Cardona et al. involved eight people who had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who were monitored (the participants recorded their emotional experiences in a diary). over a period of twelve weeks in order to determine. What types of intense emotions…

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A Simple Method To Help Control Emotions: Affect Labeling

Survivors of severe and protracted childhood trauma often find it difficult to control emotions in later life and these feelings can be very painful and overwhelming. Such emotional dysregulation is likely to be particularly prominent if one, as a result of one’s childhood experiences, has gone on to develop devastating conditions such as borderline personality disorder or complex post-traumatic…

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Factors That Protect The Child From Adverse Effects Of Traumatic Stress

A study (Werner and Kauai) was carried out to investigate factors that protect children from the effects of traumatic stressors. The study comprised 700 children who were split up into two groups: GROUP 1: Children identified as being at low risk of significant psychological problems in later life as a result of traumatic childhood stressors. This group comprised two-thirds of the…

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Self-Disgust : A Legacy Of Constant Evaluation / Objectification By Parents

If we grew up with a parent who treated one, essentially, as an ‘object’ to be constantly evaluated (for example, some children propelled into early stardom by their parents) we may grow into adults who constantly self-evaluate and perpetually fear the evaluation of others. This leaves such individuals vulnerable to proneness to deep feelings of shame and even self-disgust. EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN:…

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Parental Transmission Of Fear And Anxiety Onto Their Children

Frightening And Frightened Parents Most people are aware that if children grow up in an environment in which they are constantly made to feel fearful (for example, due to parental abuse or the frequent witnessing of domestic violence) their emotional development is put at risk. However, many people are less aware that it is not just frightening parents who can psychologically damage their…

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Nine Strategies That Help To Increase Emotional Stabilty

Severe and protracted childhood trauma can lead to diagnoses later in life of complex PTSD and borderline personality disorder. there is a very large overlap between these two conditions and a major symptom of both can be extreme emotional over-reactivity (referred to by psychologists and psychiatrists as emotional lability). Both conditions are so serious that they necessitate appropriate…

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Recovered Memories: False, Factual And Narrative

RECOVERED MEMORIES: FALSE, FACTUAL, AND NARRATIVE Recovered memories (i.e. memories that have been repressed due to their traumatic nature but later, often with the intervention of a therapist, breakthrough into conscious awareness (having previously been, in effect, largely buried in the unconscious. FALSE MEMORIES Unfortunately, ‘recovered memories can sometimes be false (this can happen, for…

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Explaining Traumatic Memories With The Linen Cupboard Metaphor

THE PROCESSING OF NORMAL MEMORIES: Normal memories that have been fully processed have a temporal context that enables us to remember when, or roughly when, they happened. In other words, the memories have what is sometimes figuratively referred to as a ‘date stamp.’ The ‘date stamp’ is attached to the memory the part of the brain known as the hippocampus. The hippocampus can be regarded as the…

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The Importance Of A Holistic Approach To Healing Childhood Trauma

Holistic psychology views the individual as a whole, indivisible entity who is more than the sum total of his constituent parts and must therefore be treated in ways that not only address mind and behavior but also other factors such as relationships, social and physical environment, lifestyle, and physical health. Lewis, 2009, in a literature review, emphasizes the importance of a holistic…

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ROB INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS OF THEIR POWER SELF-HYPNOSIS SCRIPT

Intrusive thoughts can be very distressing and a source of great mental pain. Such thoughts may sometimes just arrive in the mind spontaneously, or they might materialize as a result of a trigger that has reminded us if past traumatic experiences. However, the good news is that how we interpret these thoughts and our attitude to them can greatly reduce the degree to which we are disturbed by…

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STOP CATASTROPHIZING MENTAL PAIN COGNITIVE SELF HYPNOSIS AUDIO SCRIPT

How we think about mental pain and our attitude to it, greatly impacts the amount of distress it causes us and our ability to tolerate it; this is why cognitive hypnotherapy and self-hypnosis are particularly relevant to its amelioration. STOP CATASTROPHIZING MENTAL PAIN COGNITIVE SELF HYPNOSIS AUDIO SCRIPT: As your new thinking patterns reduce the mental pain you have been experiencing… you…

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The Escape Theory Of Suicide And Its Relevance To Childhood Trauma

We know that those of us who have suffered severe and protracted childhood trauma are at substantially increased risk of suicide. One of the main theories of why people commit suicide is the Escape Theory of Suicide which postulates that suicide is a culmination of a series of stages. The theory is of particular relevance to those who have suffered early life trauma as such individuals, due to…

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The Power Of The Mind For Reducing And Eliminating Pain

Could it be possible one day to treat pain by building on what is already known about the placebo effect and its very real impact on the brain? A placebo is a dummy pill (made of an inert and non-psychoactive substance like sugar) given to a patient and the placebo effect is the change in the patient’s condition as a result of having taken the placebo. This placebo effect results from the power…

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Heart Always Racing? Childhood Trauma And Tachycardia

My own resting heart rate, which is usually at least 105 beats per minute, according to my GP, ‘is nothing to worry about.’ Since a resting heart rate of above is technically classified as ‘tachycardia’ (an abnormally fast-beating heart), it seems to me it is something to worry about – presumably my GP’s intent was to play things down so that I did not become anxious about it as this, in turn,…

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What Is CAPRD (Child Affected By Parental Relationship Distress)?

I remember, as a very young child, perhaps six or seven years of age, sitting on the stairs listening to my parent’s violent arguments going on downstairs. These would sometimes result in my mother becoming completely hysterical and running out of the house, threatening to never come back. If I was ever caught doing this, I would be severely told off for ‘eavesdropping.’ Of course, many children…

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Identity Problems In BPD Linked To Inability To Mentally 'Time Travel'

Identity Problems In BPD Linked To Inability To Mentally ‘Time Travel’

According to Gold et al. (2017), one of the underpinning reasons for a person with BPD to suffer from identity issues and a lack of a stable sense of self stem partly from a disrupted episodic memory making it harder for them to mentally revisit the past (Gold et al. refer to this problem as a ‘disruption the temporal sense of self). Indeed, because the same brain circuits are involved in…

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Cognitive Hypnotherapy Audios For Relief Of Mental Pain

My Personal Experience Of Pain: The pain I experienced was not wholly physical or wholly mental but something in between. This is perhaps not surprising as both physical and mental pain are processed by the same brain regions, so emotional and physical pain are closely interrelated. Maddeningly, such pain is extremely difficult to articulate. So, for want of a more precise term, let’s call it…

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