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Emergency Personnel: Trauma and PTSD

Just seeing Horror and Gore Causes Trauma Seeing horrific scenes and gore is a category of trauma that affects so many first responders such as EMT’s, policemen, and firefighters, many of whom suffer from trauma and PTSD. (They’ll probably deny … Continue reading

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Freezing in Trauma and PTSD

The Freeze Response is one of the hallmarks of trauma and PTSD. This response evolved as a means of survival in a predatory world. The following video demonstrates the survival benefits of the freeze response in nature. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibnJeCtwsP4&feature=player_embedded In a … Continue reading

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Trauma and PTSD: The #1 Cause of Human Suffering

I created this site to alert people to the dangers of Trauma and PTSD, the Number One Cause of Human Suffering on the Planet! There are many types of trauma: explosive combat traumas of war and PTSD high-impact traumas of … Continue reading

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Sleep, PTSD, and Trauma

The Effects of Trauma and PTSD on Sleep— and what to do about it–is the focus of the following article from the National Center for PTSD. Sleeplessness is one symptom of trauma and PTSD. Although the article gives good suggestions … Continue reading

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Help Healing PTSD with Somatic Experiencing and Mindfulness

Somatic Experiencing, which was developed by Peter Levine, can vanquish PTSD symptoms such as depression, nightmares, panic attacks, aggressive outbursts, and hyperarousal. The primary way of doing this is by increasing the ability of sufferers to track their body sensations, … Continue reading

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Trauma and Memory

We humans have two very different forms of memory. One is conscious and what we would consider as normal memories–stories and historical recollections that seem to be arranged sequentially in time. This is called explicit memory. The other form is … Continue reading

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Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

In Peter Levine’s book on Somatic Experiencing, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, we are asked to understand our traumas in terms of our basic animal natures. He postulates that trauma is the body’s response to what may be, or appear … Continue reading

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Pronking, Trauma, and Soaring Again

Pronking is a behavior seen in nature, where an animal will repeatedly jump high and bound around as if in joy or ecstasy. There is such energy and enthusiasm in its leaps, it almost seems to be trying to leap … Continue reading

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