Understanding PTSD: Signs, Symptoms, and How Therapy Can Help First it is important to identify: What is PTSD? Post Traumatic Stress Disorder can occur when someone (adult or child) is exposed to something that they considered traumatic or life altering. Even people who witnessed a traumatic event can have symptoms of PTSD. Some of the
Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn: Understanding Your Stress Response Imagine you’re walking down the street, and suddenly a big dog starts barking loudly at you. How you react in that moment is called a “stress response”. These reactions—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—are ways your body tries to protect you when it thinks you’re in danger.
Healing After Trauma: Different Approaches to PTSD Therapy I have worked with survivors of trauma and abuse for over 25 years. I have been trained on many different methods to helping a client through their trauma so that they can begin living without PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) symptoms. Many people come to therapy because
When someone hurts you, it’s natural to want them to fix it. You might find yourself waiting for an apology, an explanation, or even some grand gesture that makes things right again. But often, the painful truth is that the person who caused your pain is rarely the one who heals you. Healing, as unfair
How to stop PTSD? For many people who have experienced adverse events, trauma shows up in their emotional health and physical health in serious ways. Oftentimes, people who experience PTSD feel like their trauma is happening again and again to them. There are studies that show (through brain scans) that once we are traumatized, our
Stephen “tWitch” Boss’ suicide this week has left a lot of people with heavy hearts. Questions like “how could TWitch commit suicide when he had it all”, “why would someone like TWitch take his own life”, “how can someone who seems so happy choose to end their life”, and “why would TWitch kill himself when
If you initiated an internet search and came to this page, my guess is that something happened in your life that you are concerned is affecting you in a negative way. Trauma testing is valuable whether or not you are wanting to get into therapy to treat it. Trauma testing can tell you whether the
Most people looking for a trauma test are wondering if an experience(s) they have had in their life qualifies as trauma or PTSD. At Long Beach Therapy, we are trained in several different treatment methods for trauma and PTSD as well as assessing for trauma and PTSD in several different ways. Please reach out to
Can getting a massage be a trigger for PTSD? There are many different ways you can get triggered for PTSD. When you have experiences in life, whether they are traumatic or not, your body “records” the experiences in all of your senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing). When one of your senses comes across a
What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition suffered by an adult or child who experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. The person lives with the belief that they could have come to real harm, or might have suffered some level of harm from the event they experienced or witnessed.
