This is Part 5 of the Blame the Victim Series. The daily battle trauma survivors are engaged in is many times completely not understood by people who have not been traumatized. The thing is, this lack of understanding makes total sense. It Makes Sense for a Non-traumatized Person to Blame a Traumatized Person for Their…
(Note: This is Part 4 of the Blame the Victim Series originally called Blame the Victim Part 4 – Trauma Symptoms Are Not Victims’ Fault) Ongoing Trauma Symptoms Are Technically Not The Trauma Survivor’s Fault Our Attitude and Learning Process around Handling our Triggers, our Physiological Reactions, are Within our Control but the Fact that…
Have You Unconsciously Internalized Blame the Victim Mentality Without Knowing It? This is a checklist of items to reflect on for trauma survivors. They don’t mean you necessarily have internalized any blame for the traumatic events or for your symptoms, but it’s possible. These are just things to think about. (Note: this article is of…
Blaming Trauma Survivors Harms Them “Self-blame is by far, the most devastating after effect of being sexually violated. This is particularly true for former victims of child sexual abuse and adult victims of sexual assault. In fact, ninety percent of rape trauma recovery is undoing a victim’s tendency to self-blame. Ten percent is everything else.”…
My friend David killed himself on the 13th of August. I found out when I was at work, in a room full of people I didn’t know, filming their stories of mental health hope and recovery, and David was dead, across the world, in a different time zone. I’d say it was ironic, but it…
“It wasn’t your fault.” This is such a healing, repairing message for trauma survivors. In our society, all too frequently the conversation around a traumatic event shifts to the victim’s character, choices, faults, etc. as if to imply that something done to them was their fault. This is almost always untrue and it is harmful,…
This September 2018 issue for the WorkLife – Workplace Resilience eMag is dedicated to The Future of Work featuring Michelle Duval. Yes, we are assuming work has a future and we’ve dared to explore it.Published by Workplace Mental Health Institute Source link
This month’s feature is about a dog called Shirelle. Or at least it is in principle. The truth is that it is about a dear, wise, friend of mine, Doug Green. Doug is a psychotherapist who specializes in working with childhood issues. There is a lot that is special about Doug, but what is really…
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an Anxiety disorder that is triggered as a result of some serious trauma. The Diagnostic Statistic Manual version V states that “Post traumatic Stress Disorder is characterized by the re-experiencing of an extremely traumatic event accompanied by symptoms of increased arousal and by avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma….
We usually recommend, that if you are able to choose your timing, then before lunchtime tends to be a good idea. That means that after this conversation the person can have a bit of a break before they go back to work. The conversation might not be a big in depth one, but we want…