Complex PTSD Recovery [on Spotify] : We Are Traumatized Motherfuckers

How do we end up feeling worth-less? We tackle 4 articles connecting childhood events to poor self-regard!

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What if PTSD and chronic pain could be knocked out with one nearly risk-free medical procedure that's effective in 50-100% of patients? Let's talk about cutting edge research on the Stellate Ganglion Block.

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Pulling together the research on Somatization and Revictimization, what becomes clear? ACEs, Disassociation, and Emotions are implicated...... by a central non-experience in childhood. Let's talk about emotional neglect; the predisposing factor to self-destruction. RESEARCH-NERD EDITION

It's anecdotally accepted; unideal communication experiences can correlate with the throat seizing up. In this paper, Beck et al examine "Laryngo-Responders" and find surprising connections between emotional neglect, unideal communication with self and other after traumatic events, and throat dysfunction.

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Trauma affects the voice... long-term? Can we understand undiagnosable vocal pathology in singers by looking at childhood trauma, attachment, and shame?

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