Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and complex PTSD (CPTSD) are both mental health disorders that can develop after you go through a traumatic event, like witnessing violence or being sexually assaulted. There are several important distinctions, however, in how the conditions develop and the best ways to treat them. Here is what you need to know about the difference between CPTSD and PTSD. Also I discuss the Hypnotherapy session I had last week and briefly talk about what it is....
Jan 08, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 33
A common symptom of someone who has ADHD is Poor/Low or No impulse control. They often make choices in their life before they realize what consequence the choice will have on their life and possibly who they are with. You will say something to someone that you later will regret or won't make any sense because you weren't able to think about what was coming out of your mouth before you said it. The dangers that come from Lack of Impulse Control are vast and serious!, you could get into trouble wi...
Jan 07, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Video footage of me recording the podcast Poor Impulse Control
Jan 07, 2022•46 min
CPTSD triggers happen because we do not feel safe, trauma happened in the past where we were not in a safe place and danger occurred. In order to feel safe our parts become activated and blended with the adult in order to attempt to be safe when we are in danger. It is very important for someone who has CPTSD to feel safe wherever they are! whether it is with a person in their lives or a location, if they do not feel safe they will experience flashbacks will have a desire to return to a state of...
Jan 01, 2022•58 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Being in a relationship is difficult enough when you are both Neurotypical, so you can imagine how harder it will be when one of you has ADHD and your relationship is struggling to survive and possibly on the bring of falling apart. All the symptoms are there, hyperactivity, lack of focus, inability to listen, low Impulse control, lack of inhibition. How do we make it work? Please listen to my episode and see what I go through every day with my GF and how stressful and difficult it is for us, fo...
Dec 31, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 30
I don't really trust anyone 100% implicit trust isn't something I believe I know or have. There are obvious reasons for this, Child Parts, Trauma, etc. You can learn to trust again with a lot of hard work with yourself and showing your parts that they too can trust the adult to do what is best for themself. By doing the 4 step process, hopefully gaining the trust of your child parts you can begin to fully trust people again but first... trusting yourself needs to occur before you can possibly tr...
Dec 25, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Watch the video footage of the ADHD - Dopamine Episode
Dec 24, 2021•36 min
For a lot of people out there the holidays are a great time of year! Turkey, Presents, Family, Christmas Trees, Lights, Carols, Snow, a Break from Work! For me it's anxiety and over obsessive behavior, worrying about time passing and all I can think about is how soon it'll all be over and before you know it you're back at work, back to the everyday! yuck... I don't do well with Holidays or Vacations despite my intensity and cheer and enthusiasm I present to everyone. It really does take over and...
Dec 18, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Focusing on tasks or just on anything really is not easy for someone with ADHD. I have a problem with focusing, causes me to forget something important I was just told and it causes me to become easily distracted with just about anything. Hyperfocus on the other hand allows us to be able to work on something that we have a high interest in but it can come with a cost in the rest of our life. Listen to this episode and see how both focus and hyperfocus has its ups and downs.
Dec 17, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 26
a Bonus video broadcast of my Podcast of CPTSD - The Polyvagal Theory. Enjoy!
Dec 11, 2021•52 min
There are many reasons one should become enlightened to the polyvagal theory, least of which is to understand why those bothersome behaviors such as hypervigilance are there and how to deal with them. Another reason to learn more is that it is horrible to be a mystery to oneself reacting to danger that is not there as though one is back in situations that happened decades in the past. The polyvagal theory also explains why people who were victimized as children freeze when confronted with a sexu...
Dec 11, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 25
extra bonus footage. I recorded myself doing the episode while recording the podcast. Full episode.
Dec 10, 2021•37 min
You say that you'll remember to do it later... but yet you don't! simply put your ability to remember these "future tasks" is terrible and you will likely not remember to do what you said you would do. How can you make it all easier? coping, reminders, sticky notes!, whiteboards, audio messages! and so on... We have to make sure we take care of our disability and do the right thing by remembering to remember by mastering your ability to DO IT NOW!! not later. Please listen to my podcast about th...
Dec 10, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 23
https://anchor.fm/livingwithadhdandcptsd/subscribe Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder... well, what can I say? it's hurtful, painful, stressful, difficult for those you love, very hard to deal with even at the best of times and down right unfair and cruel at its worst! Everyone who has CPTSD is unique but we all suffer from the same pain and fear and horror from our past, the trauma and flashbacks... the triggers and being blended with our Child parts... the struggles we have each and every ...
Dec 04, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 23
https://anchor.fm/livingwithadhdandcptsd/subscribe This one really hits home for me as someone who has ADHD, memory issues, short-term memory loss, forgetting often during the day has become very difficult to make life functional and stress free. I used to think that I really was having issues with memory but then when I realized that I had ADHD it all made sense! I know many of you out there have issues with remembering important things in your life, so making external reminders, phone reminder...
Dec 03, 2021•36 min•Season 1Ep. 22
https://anchor.fm/livingwithadhdandcptsd/subscribe To make progress when you are healing from CTPSD one very important step is required, to gain the trust from your parts! Building new neurological pathways in your brain to establish communication, to start the process of healing and earning the trust from those part that became to be in order to protect you and survive the trauma you repeatedly experienced in your past. with Structural Dissociation Theory, child parts are to be treated with com...
Nov 27, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 21
During a flashback of a traumatic event, the intensity can prove overpowering, leading your mind to dissociate as a coping mechanism. This detachment might render you numb, triggering an out-of-body sensation or a disconnection from the present moment. This state of dissociation holds the potential for danger to both you and those around you. Individuals grappling with CPTSD often utilize dissociation as a means to seek respite from past anguish and trauma. In an upcoming discussion, I'll delve ...
Nov 19, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This is the most common secondary diagnosed comorbidity for those who suffer from ADHD. It is very debilitating for people because you deal with it nearly all the time and it feels very hard to contribute to life when Anxiety hits us. Please listen to my episode and lets all heal together.
Nov 19, 2021•34 min•Season 1Ep. 18
As a 4 year old child experiencing a traumatic event like I did, a child part came to be and throughout my entire life this part has been with me. In this episode I will let everyone know just how this Part came alive and the experiences I had as I grew up and how it has affected my life in every way possible. Please listen…
Nov 13, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Arguably the hardest symptom to manage with ADHD is Emotional Regulation. It affects our lives so many ways and can potentially be very devastating for us with friendships, relationships, employment and in situations that are difficult, triggering and unpredictable. All who have ADHD will deal with this every day for their entire lives but they don't necessarily know why it's happening and what the consequences will be when their ability to regulate their emotions is nearly impossible! Listen to...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Season 1Ep. 16
This isn't exactly a typical episode. the topic I initially had in mind was something very different but due to my own real actual trigger that occurred before I recorded this episode I felt that I need to reach out to my listeners and express a very real and very uncomfortable, overwhelming trigger and express my thoughts and feelings and concerns to you! Warning - may be triggering for those who suffer from CTPSD
Nov 06, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 15
in the ADHD world Executive Function is a real serious issue that affects everyone. We struggle daily with our ability to think about our future and plan ahead but instead we are always in the "now". We lack self control and have little to no self awareness! In order to have any sort of ability to live our lives without issue we need external help all around us and due to our poor executive function we suffer from Time Blindness and usually are never aware of how time moves around us. Listen to ...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Sure, you're not feeling well!.. you have a cold or that horrible headache or you didn't sleep much at all last night. But you can't afford to sit in your bed all day and zone out or dissociated from the world, you have to work, you have a family to feed or a relationship to deal with! Life isn't always fair and when you have ADHD or CPTSD it can be even worse. Listen to the conclusion of my episode of being sick or unwell and still having ADHD and CPTSD...
Oct 30, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 13
You wake up and you are feeling unwell... sore throat? bad cough? runny nose? or perhaps you have an awful headache or Migraine? Perhaps you barely got a wink of sleep that night and you have to face the day knowing your ADHD will definitely cause problems or you will become triggered and suffering from CTPSD is the worst when feeling sick! Listen to part of one this two part episode.. when you're sick and you have ADHD and CPTSD!
Oct 29, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Dealing with ADHD and CPTSD when you are feeling great physically and Mentally is one thing but when you become sick and/or feel mentally drained then both ADHD and CPTSD is a whole new ball game! This week will be a 2 Episode special on what it's like being Sick and having ADHD and CPTSD! Available Friday and Saturday!
Oct 26, 2021•34 sec
When you are dealing with CPTSD in your life you are taught by a Therapist to use Grounding Tools to assist you to unblend from your child parts that have become triggered by a flashback. I cannot emphasize how important the use of Grounding is to your healing process! Without the ability to ground when your parts feel triggered you will find that it is incredibly difficult to come out of your trigger and begin to heal your pain and suffering. I offer my own experiences to you the audience and p...
Oct 25, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 11
For many of us with ADHD we live and swear by having Routines to make our lives simpler, more manageable. They do make life better but sometimes they can get in the way when our lives change! Whether by force or by accident, creating a new routine and saying goodbye to old ones can be very stressful and frustrating for us. Listen to this podcast and see how routines made my life easier until they didn't.
Oct 22, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Being diagnosed with Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for many is not an easy thing to accept. We don't really believe that it's something that would happen to us and we look for other explanations and pretend to ourselves that we don't really have it. But ultimately in order to begin the process of healing and moving forward in life we need to accept our condition and stay positive about our experiences throughout the stages of therapy and learning about this terrible disability that we h...
Oct 16, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Having ADHD while on the job is for all of us very difficult. Many of us have had a hard time keeping a job for very long because we often can't keep up, lose track of what we are doing, miss assignments, submit bad projects and cannot get along with our co-workers. Because our employers don't realize that we suffer from ADHD they will believe we are just not a very good employee and aren't work keeping and will get fired! Here are some common signs that we all deal with every day during while a...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 8
There will be two new episodes this week and every other week! Stay tuned Friday for an Episode on ADHD and then Saturday for another Episode on CPTSD
Oct 13, 2021•26 sec
