This is your brain on trauma.

preview_player
Показать описание
Dr. K’s Guide to Mental Health explores Depression, Anxiety, ADHD, and Meditation, and now Trauma!

DISCLAIMER

Healthy Gamer is an online community and resource platform for gamers and their families. It does not provide medical services or professional counseling, and it is not a substitute for professional medical care. Our coaches are peer supporters, not professionally trained experts, and they cannot provide medical service. If you or a loved one are experiencing an emergency, please call your nation's emergency telephone number.

All guests of Healthy Gamer are informed of the public, non-medical nature of the content and have expressly agreed to share their story.
Рекомендации по теме
Комментарии
Автор

*Introduction & Disclaimers:* 08:48
*Community Requests & HealthyGamer Guide:* 10:28

*What is CPTSD?:* 16:23
- Prevalence of PTSD & CPTSD: 16:43
- History of PTSD & CPTSD: 18:07
- Core Features of PTSD: 21:06
- Illustration of PTSD: 21:58
- Chronic Trauma & CPTSD: 26:33
- Visualizing PTSD vs CPTSD: 27:58
- Early Trauma & Perpetrators: 30:09
- Judith Herman & "Trauma and Recovery": 31:18
- Bessel van der Kolk & "The Body Keeps the Score": 33:25

*Understanding Trauma:* 33:47
- Hyperarousal: 35:04
- Dissociation: 41:18
- The Role of Emotions: 47:58
- Loss of Identity: 50:22
- Impulsivity & Paralysis of Initiation: 59:51
- Relationships & CPTSD: 1:03:42
- Relationships & Disturbed Sense of Self: 1:14:36
- Recap: CPTSD & its Impact: 1:18:22

*Treatment & Recovery:* 1:21:10
- Trauma as Adaptation: 1:21:39
- Rewiring Physiology: 1:22:46
- Reconnecting with Emotions: 1:30:33
- Articulating Emotions & Language: 1:37:13
- Social Cognitive Emotions & Relationships: 1:43:44

*Video from the HealthyGamer Guide: Paralysis of Initiation:* 2:03:21

*Q&A:* 2:21:11
- Disagreeing with your therapist: 2:22:19
- Going to therapy for the first time: 2:32:34
- Differentiating ADHD and CPTSD: 2:26:32
- CPTSD, Addiction, & Sense of Worthlessness: 2:34:29
- Trauma from incubator experience: 2:39:19
- Impact of different household styles on CPTSD: 2:40:23
- Safety & Trauma Healing: 2:42:09
- Bringing up CPTSD with a therapist: 2:49:23
- Explaining CPTSD to a family member: 2:52:56
- Will trauma ever go away?: 2:57:26
- Addressing trauma sources in the world: 2:58:03
- Building a sense of self: 3:00:09
- Resisting trauma treatment: 3:00:44
- Curing CPTSD: 3:01:26
- Trauma treatment & happiness: 3:02:14

*Closing Remarks & Trauma Guide Preview:* 3:09:20

anxav
Автор

interesting how abusive childhood home survivors get compared to prisoners of war.
it certainly did feel that feel

name-hfht
Автор

Struggled with CPTSD for 20 years and finally in a good relationship.. I'm struggling so much with being anxious, angry, isolating, avoiding, hypervigilance... I don't even know what healthy is. I hope I can be a better partner.

LauraAmanda
Автор

it was so comforting to hear Dr K say the C-PTSD is something one can heal from

tanvib
Автор

I have cptsd and it has left me with a stunted ability to feel anger; I disassociate from it. Anger exists to let us establish personal boundaries. Learning to do this (anger/boundaries) at 50+ is very hard.

NicdeGroot
Автор

Dude and his team are informing the next generation of mental health

alexpark
Автор

I had a panic attack at work today because I thought I messed something up that turned out to be fine. I've been at the job for eleven years and am a valued employee. I wouldn't have gotten fired, or even experienced major consequences, but I felt terrified and worthless and couldn't bear the thought of letting people down. I know it's because of my experiences growing up. I'm working hard in therapy, and life is mostly good now, but if it ever seems like someone, especially an authority figure, might get angry with me, it can send me back to those childhood feelings. I realized later that a coworker that triggered me was probably dealing with his own childhood stuff. But nobody wants to talk about it in a workplace. You just learn how to step around each other's "quirks" and "eccentricities, " which are likely trauma symptoms showing up in different ways for different people.

appletree
Автор

CPTSD is being in fight or flight 24/7/365. Its exhausting. Love and solidarity to everyone who survived and those of us who didn't. ❤

angel_vii
Автор

CPTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker will blow your mind and support you in ways that you need if you have CPTSD.

eldonscott
Автор

Now I know why my sabbatical hasn't led to a wonderful travel experience, new hobby, or a quick return to the workforce out of boredom or excitement....I realize I've run on momentum my entire life and momentum is gone. I never have an urge out of incentive, joy, desire, commitment, goals, just chugging along and getting along until I was so burnt out I didn't want to do anything and I was always just working or existing.

thetaxgawd
Автор

I was sexually abused as a child by my own sibling. I grew up very sexually active in my teens, always struggled with my emotions, was diagnosed with general depression in my teens, still struggle with my emotions, mainly anger, at almost 30. Had postpartum depression, and for the longest time until a few months ago, had passive suicidal thoughts. I never knew or associated what happened to me as a child to affect me so much in my adulthood, or my whole life in general, but specifically adulthood. At some point, I couldn't even have intercourse with my husband because of actual intrusive thoughts and I'd break down crying.
These videos and others, have helped me so much come to terms and really try to better myself, I still struggle but me and my husband do see an improvement in myself. Thank you for talking about cptsd. ❤

Aidenxn
Автор

I’m diagnosed with both CPTSD and BPD and developing a stronger sense of identity has been the most helpful thing for me by far in regards to recovery

veagrace
Автор

"Happiness I cannot feel
And love to me is so unreal"
- Black Sabbath, "Paranoid"

alexanderleuchte
Автор

1:02:00 impulsivity I think is also result of the fact that you know you don't normally have any emotional drive to do anything, therefore to actively live, to be alive. You want to but you can't, you just don't have it. So when an impulse comes around, you grab onto it and move forward with it, cause you gotta frickin try, you need to break the lethargy somehow. It really sucks to live like this, and it takes such a painfully long time with constant dedicated effort to gradually very slowly get better. Maykeit has been a blessing, thank you dr K and team ❤

brunscus
Автор

I always feel like I've got a few traits of everything such as ADHD, anxiety, depression, even autism, and I even have a diagnosis of a couple of them. Then this explanation of cptsd and how these traits can show in everyone and how my childhood was full of this type of ongoing trauma really helps me find where I fit in and where to work on things. Thanks so much for this explanation and I look forward to using the trauma guide.

naticen
Автор

This was exactly what happened to me. I had interests when I was a child, biology and art. My father told me both are useless and I should work in IT or become a doctor. I became absolutely not interested in anything in life, so my father took it as a permission to push on me his interests "because he saw I didn't have any, didn't want me to rot in boredom and if he saw I was passionate about something he would let me do that (which honestly I think isn't true, he would make it for me as hard as possible)". That resulted in our poor relationship and me going no contact later.

krembryle
Автор

I wish he could make a follow up video on how neurodivergency and CPTSD manifested together

reisatsuki
Автор

I LOVE that you validated the existence of CPTSD!
I had a crisis line operator about 2 years ago told me that CPTSD doesn't exist and even if I did, I didn't have it. Like I'm no professional but I'm pretty sure that is NOT what you say to someone on the CRISIS LINE!
It's wild to me that many mental health professionals I have seen have never heard of CPTSD.

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS DR. K!

KoharuMacchiato
Автор

CPTSD patients are the most difficult to work with, dissociation, flashbacks, nightmares. i feel really sorry for them everytime they come to my hospital

HaVoCX
Автор

I had to stop the video after about 30 mins (I'll come back to try to watch it later). You've really hit on something here 🙁. My therapist recently told me I have a lot of trauma-response like behaviors. This has led me to try to start researching c-ptsd, since the symptoms lined up. And watching this video is really hitting a nerve. Thanks for this. I'll come back when I'm more emotionally prepared. I feel like I'm getting closer to finding answers to why I am the way that I am (avoidant, extremely low self esteem, lifelong relationship/commitment issues, high anxiety, etc). Please keep doing what you're doing Dr. K. 💖

bran