Obsession and Complex Trauma

Consumed by uninvited thoughts

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As a complex trauma therapist and survivor, I am well acquainted with the persistent regurgitation of disturbing memories. The intractability implied by the need to go over week after week, month after month and even year after year of injurious occurrences and mortifying motifs is understood as an essential part of the remembrance and mourning stage of recovery…