Trauma & PTSD

Imagine living a life where you feel exhausted all the time, unable to enjoy everyday events or things that have brought a lot of happiness to your life. That is what PTSD is like for many people. They are unable to shake them off. It is persistent stress that sometimes happens with no triggers. PTSD

Coping with feelings of grief and loss is hard enough already, but in the COVID-19 era, those feelings have made things much more difficult. People will suffer new challenges that we still can’t predict yet. Adults may grieve the loss of job, housing, family or friends while struggling with finances and supporting their families. Children

It can be quite a traumatic experience for a child to discover that people may not be around forever. But in most cases, children find death to be a rather abstract experience. However for older people death can be really devastating. Losing someone close to us can be overwhelming. We often have such a connection

Perhaps you have always heard people talk about PTSD and wonder what it stands for. Well, it’s the abbreviation of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It’s possible you are one of those who doubt the existence of such ailment. It may, therefore, interest you to know that this ailment is as old as man himself. Or

It is a sad fact of life that often people do go through some sort of traumatic event. Sometimes these events can be difficult to deal with in the short term, and in a good number of cases, these traumatic events have long term ramifications that can eventually disable an individual with feelings of fear,

Traumatic occasions happen every day to a large number of individuals. Yet, regardless of how it comes is always as a result of a cataclysmic event, fear based oppression, mass savagery, or it could be nearer to the home and include aggressive behavior at home or sexual abuse and in some cases the departure of

Blog Author: James L. Machado Workman, M.Div., BCC, LMFTA Many Americans associate the Fourth of July with cook-outs, baseball, apple pie, and fireworks, but there are many veterans whose celebrations do not include fireworks.  Fireworks can be particularly disturbing to veterans with a diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  The Department of Veterans Affairs estimates that

Have you ever found yourself being extremely anxious or continuously experiencing scary thoughts? Were you abused or neglected as a child? And up till this point, the scenes and flash keep playing in your mind. Which eventually leads to a heavy bang on your head. Don’t try to minimize it, you probably avoid recalling events