How Trauma Stacking can Result In New Mental Health Diagnosis’ – Looking into EUPD

Throughout my treatment journey, I am now finding myself awaiting the possible diagnosis EUPD, and whilst trying to make sense of it all, I find myself more and more able to expand on my own blogs, and this one I feel closely relates to Trauma Stacking. I will delve deeper into how Trauma Stacking can …

Compassion Fatigue: A Raw Look Into The Hidden Strain of Caring for Others While Struggling with Your Own Mental Health

Today, I will be delving into Compassion Fatigue, and how it affects those with responsibilities for others and the self-neglect and further mental health struggles this could lead to. I am a mother of a young child who has recently started school and although I was fortunate enough to be able to send him to …

The Duality of Suffering and Resilience

We’ve all heard the saying “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” and whilst I agree, I feel it’s half a sentence. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger in some circumstances, following immense pain, trauma, self-doubt, struggles with identity and broken bonds. At least in my situation… For me, the highest moments in my …

Why I’m Done Apologising for My Mental Health: A Manifesto for Radical Self-Acceptance

My personal journey with mental health first saw me pretending I didn’t have mental health problems and never bringing the subject up; to then only mentioning it to certain people I felt comfortable with, to shouting it from the rooftops and trying to educate everyone, to now reeling it back in and only mentioning it …

Psychedelic and Dissociative Therapies: A New Frontier for PTSD Treatment

Last year, I attended Product Earth, an expo event mainly focusing on natural wellness. From here on I gained valuable insight to the additional support that psychedelic options could provide, natural or synthetic and these emerging options are being researched to offer new hope for patients not responding to conventional approaches. With further research into …

Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CPTSD: The Brain’s Response Explained Through the Hand Model

On a quest to prove holistic treatments necessity in healthcare and understand more about my body and how to help it better, I have delved further into the body and how it changes and responds to Anxiety, Depression and CPTSD. Anxiety, Depression and Complex PTSD, also known as CPTSD are all interrelated conditions which I’ll …

My PTSD Journey: Trauma Stacking and the Trauma Tree

In this blog I’m going to be covering two topics that I have gained further insight to via my trauma therapy group; trauma stacking and the trauma tree. I have decided to conduct more detailed research and share my anecdotes also. We have already discussed the ACE Study and I have mentioned that I have …

Cannabis and the ACE Study: Can Cannabinoids Mitigate the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma?

Since delving deeper into mental health I have learnt more about the ECS (Endocannabinoid System), trauma and adversity and the ACE study, so why not combine these into one blog and discuss my anecdotes also? We know that the ECS is a cell-signalling system that regulates many aspects of the body from sleep to appetite, …

The ACE Study: How Childhood Trauma Affects Our Physical and Mental Health in Adulthood

During the mid 1990’s, the MD of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, a US based Health Maintenance Organisation Vincent J. Felitti and MD of the CDC Dr. Robert Anda conducted a study with over 17.000 patients for a two year period to delve into 8 different potential categories of childhood/household instability or abuse to view …

A Raw Look at My Current Fight for Mental Wellness

Trigger Warning: This post discusses topics of mental health and suicide. If you are struggling with these issues, please reach out to a mental health professional or crisis hotline. Throughout the isolation of mental health struggles, this blog was written for myself… I cannot verbalise how lucky I feel that I am being given the …

Önyargı Olmadan Mental Sağlık Konuşmak: Arkadaşlar, Aile ve Sağlık Profesyonelleri İçin Bir Kılavuz

Mental sağlık etrafındaki stigma, bakım ve destek sağlamak üzere tasarlanmış ortamlarda bile yaygındır. Bir sağlık profesyoneli ve mental sağlık sorunlarıyla mücadele etmiş biri olarak, bu stigmanın bireylerin yardım arama süreçlerini nasıl etkilediğini bizzat gördüm. Hastalar genellikle semptomlarını fısıldar, mücadelelerini küçümser veya tereddüt eder, hatta bazen sormaktan kaçınırlar...

Kenevir Travma İyileştirebilir mi? – Endokannabinoid Sisteminin TSSB'deki Rolünü Anlamak

Önceki blogumda, Endokannabinoid Sisteminin (ECS) temellerini ele almış ve stres, ruh hali ve duygusal tepkileri düzenlemedeki kritik rolünü vurgulamıştım. Şimdi, daha spesifik bir konuya dalmak istiyorum: travmanın ECS'yi nasıl etkilediği. TSSB ve ECS Arasındaki Bağlantı Yaklaşık on yıl önce, NYU'dan yapılan bir araştırma...

Bakış Açısı Değişimi: Terapi ve Holistik Bakımın Mental Sağlık Yolculuğumu Nasıl Değiştirdi

Altı ay önce, eğer bana terapi hakkında soru sorsaydınız, size bunun işe yaramayacağını söylerdim. Özel danışmandan CBT (Bilişsel Davranışçı Terapi) ve DBT (Diyalektik Davranışçı Terapi) gibi her şeyi denemekten yıllar sonra, hayal kırıklığına uğramış ve şüpheci hale gelmiştim. İlaçlar benim hayat çizgimdi, beni işlevsel tutan tek şey olduğuna inanıyordum. Ben...

Yardım İçin Mücadele: NHS Mental Sağlık Hastalarını Nasıl Yarı Yolda Bırakıyor?

Sağlık sektöründe birkaç yıldır çalışmama rağmen, NHS ile olan deneyimim çoğunlukla hasta olarak oldu. Hizmetlerini sık sık kullanmıyorum - belki yılda bir kez, en fazla, antibiyotik ihtiyacı olduğunda boğaz enfeksiyonu gibi küçük bir şey için. Aslında ihtiyacım olan tek hizmet, mental sağlık desteği oldu...