Emotional Trauma and Violence: Their Surprising Connection
Understanding the Root Causes of Aggression Even when most people call trauma to the event or circumstances someone goes through, trauma...
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Antonieta Contreras
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Are C-PTSD and DID similar?
They are very similar and they present a very similar dissociation structure, therefore related. There is consensus about DID being...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Can Grief Cause PTSD?
C-PTSD (complex trauma) symptoms can become apparent after a loss.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 5, 2020
- 4 min
How Does It Look Like To Have High-functioning C-PTSD?
Many people spend years of their lives without the awareness that their nervous system has been working in a maladaptive way.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 4, 2020
- 1 min
What Are the Functional Differences Between the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Nervous System?
The sympathetic nervous system is involved in preparing the body for stress-related activities while the parasympathetic nervous system is a
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 3, 2020
- 3 min
How Do You Tell The Difference Between C-PTSD and NPD
Personality disorders (PD) diagnoses normally overshadow Complex trauma diagnosis.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
What is the fight or flight response in psychology?
Psychology has slowly incorporated the understanding of the neurobiology-based description of fight-or-flight and it’s importance on the...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min
What is The Difference Between Fear, Phobia, and Trauma?
Fear is an emotion that triggers a reaction.
Phobia is a reaction of accumulated and disproportionate fear.
Trauma is a disorder of the nerv
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 30, 2020
- 1 min
What are the Functions Controlled by the Autonomic Nervous System Unconsciously?
The autonomic nervous system is the part of the nervous system that controls and regulates the internal organs without any conscious recogni
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 24, 2020
- 2 min
How Often Can PTSD Patients Experience Flashbacks?
It depends on how the memories got encoded and the level of protection the brain assumes the individual needs.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
How Could You Know if You have PTSD, and When To Seek Help?
It’s not that hard to find out if you have PTSD. You have to begin identifying if you experienced an event that shocked you, or overwhelmed
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
What is the difference between developmental trauma and neglect?
This question reflects the confusion with the term trauma that is so pervasive. People call “trauma” to traumatic events but not every traum
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 11, 2020
- 3 min
What is the Connection Between Borderline Personality Disorder and the Autonomic Nervous System?
When it comes to emotion, all roads lead to the autonomic nervous system
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Antonieta Contreras
- Aug 11, 2020
- 2 min
Can PTSD cause executive dysfunction?
Is it the same to say that PTSD causes problems in the executive functions than to say that it causes executive dysfunction? I think the...
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Antonieta Contreras
- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
A Vaccine for Coronavirus Psychological Damage
How We Can Heal from the Pandemic Emotional Wounds.
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Antonieta Contreras
- Apr 12, 2020
- 9 min
How to Stop the Collective Coronavirus Traumatization
Is shame stopping us from recognizing our struggle and reaching out for help?
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Antonieta Contreras
- Mar 29, 2020
- 10 min
Trauma In The Time Of Coronavirus
How Coronavirus is traumatizing us and how to feel better despite the fear and anxiety.
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