Description
Are you suffering from chronic anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, or uncontrollable emotions?
Although PTSD affects 7-8% of people in the world, it remains a relatively taboo subject. When people do talk about it, it’s usually restricted to war veterans and victims of child abuse.
The truth is, PTSD can manifest in response to any kind of trauma — but what does this mean for people who have been repeatedly subjected to traumatic events?
Recent research has shown that it is possible to recover from nightmarish experiences and live a life that feels happy and secure.
You don’t have to resign yourself to jumping at shadows and enduring intrusive, negative thoughts that wear you down mentally and physically.
By taking the steps to understand why you’re experiencing these things, you can begin to unlock the strength you have within you.
Instead of struggling to find a sense of worth, you can rewrite the script and engage with yourself compassionately. It can be so easy to judge yourself harshly, but you have to remember this:
When you are cruel to yourself, you are inadvertently cruel to the innocent child within you.
You may have spent years seeking compassion and validation from others and finding only frustration and despair.
However, that doesn’t mean you’re beyond help. Recovery from complex trauma is a long journey, but the rewards you’ll reap along the way will keep you moving forward.
In Recovery from Complex PTSD, you will discover:
- What Complex PTSD is and how it differs from the more commonly known PTSD
- How to rewrite the narrative of your life to overcome negative self-concept and regain control over your life
- The Loop of Traumatization: how your brain creates a survival-based narrative that dictates your thoughts and behaviors
- How understanding the causes of complex trauma can allow you to overcome the fear and pain that accompany distressing experiences
- What it means when you consistently experience disturbed interpersonal relationships
- The avoidance techniques you are unconsciously employing in your daily life that protect you but are also keeping you stagnant
- How you can build an accurate sense of self that isn’t formed by the events from your pastAnd much more.You know what helplessness feels like. The paralysis of panic, the loss of control. What it’s time for you to learn, is that these feelings aren’t forever.
You are capable of transforming the way you experience life and in turn, change the lives of the people who care about you most.
On a quest for the fallout from catastrophic loss, I felt like I needed to know more about PTSD. This book was very helpful to sort out what is just grief and what amounts to more than jyst grief.
I found this book helpful that it addressed all my feelings and I can see hope in the future now.
This is a wonderful book that provides an overview of what Complex-PTSD is as compared to PTSD. It also covers causes and symptoms as well as who might be either prone to developing it or already suffers from it. Written in a frank manner that feels safe and supportive, Barlow’s very well-written and well-researched book gives hope to those who may have been living with this beyond-PTSD diagnosis. It also provides a list on ways to address issues with coping, self-esteem, and relationships that are dysfunctional and guides the reader to what can help them to get on the road to a healthier way of life.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has received a diagnosis of PTSD or Complex-PTSD and is seeking basic information and guidance toward addressing their issues. It can also be a great guide for therapists who may be familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder behavior, but need an extra bit of information in working with clients challenged by such issues as chronic negativity and low self-worth, numerous emotional and psychological triggers, and dysfunctional coping habits.
I really appreciated the author’s in-depth treatment of the subject. Understanding complex PTSD is important because it has distinct roots and causes and manifests in ways that can be very debilitating. So, I thought the explanation of its many components was very good. I think many people suffer from these symptoms so I highly recommend this insightful and timely book.
For readers who are new to the subject, this book explains what CPTSD is. It also talks about how it happens as well as symptoms. It teaches easy to follow step-by-step techniques to cope. This book could save your life.