Overcoming Rape Trauma

Expanding the Realm of Reality

Truthfulness is the key to recovery. This includes embracing all of the emotions that resulted from the rape, working through them, and finally resolving them. During the recovery process, there are many obstacles that a rape victim…

How well I understand the triggers from childhood trauma. My story is very different than yours, but the visceral reactions are the same.

It is good that we are exorcising our demons through writing. Spilling our guts on paper and liberating our souls in the process.

Mental health

So I would like to begin this blog by apologizing. I havent posted a single blog until now and the reason why is quite heavy. In fact, it is exaclty what I’m going to be talking about. The United States has a rather serious issue that is simply ignored due to the focus on the other problems of the world…

Lisa Barnard talk

Senior lecturer at University of South Wales.

Her work focuses mainly on psychological aesthetics; the relationship between artist, subject & viewer. Also interested in issues of gender. She gets her ideas from reading, podcasts and radio 4.

Evaluating Internet Sources

The website I chose to evaluate is HelpGuide.org. Right below their website’s title, they claim to be a “non-profit guide to mental health and well-being”. There is a section for PTSD among military veterans, where we see kind of a guide on how to cope with post-traumatic stress disorder. There…

Mental Acuity & Routines

Spies v. Suburbanites

Hollywood and fiction romanticize the world of espionage. We follow people who wake up in different places every day, who need to remember critical details of conversations overheard months ago, who make a plan then throw it…