CPTSD and Pride Month

This Pride Month Requires Stronger LGBTQ Allies

To all those who imagine themselves to be friends, allies, and advocates of the LGBTQ community, As we enter PRIDE month, I think it’s important to say something to all of you, from someone who also aspires to be a support to queer human beings. This is not the PRIDE you have experienced in the […] The post This Pride Month Requires Stronger LGBTQ Allies appeared first on John Pavlovitz.

CPTSD and Pride Month

Repeated exposures to traumatic events. Events that overwhelm one’s sense of identity, capacity to comprehend what’s occurring, and force the body into a state of constant hypervigilance. Intrusive, repetitive, re-experiencing (memories, flashbacks, nightmares), and doing everything to avoid, avoid, avoid triggers.            Negative core beliefs develop. How could they not? Persistent feelings of guilt, shame, and detachment from others – how …