Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

It's true, the memories become vague and foggy but scary and traumatic. It affects you, you can't have that thing happen to you again or you'll have a panic attack. (Or something similar) And I've been struggling with self loathing and or/ self hatred as treatment. And it's something deep, because even if you can't physically explain your trauma you'll always be able to tell someone how terrifying it is to relive that trauma.

The hard part is fitting your trauma related feelings into day to day life. Its hard trying to fit into society.

A true scholar, a lovely teacher and no doubt a lovely and wonderful woman. God bless from down under.

I cried at the end 😞

If I had this level of decorum I might've stayed in therapy.

What about CPTSD

Who is the speaker

I like to hurt myself and become nihilistic when I take a break from smoking weed. Is that a self defense mechanism I’ve come up with to get myself smoking again?

She came to me in the sleeping hours And she sang to me in the moonlight: "Where did you dance when you baffled our chance, And when did the motley bells chime?" I summoned a verse from a chorus of blame, But it drowned in the ghost of her song. He came to me in the sleeping hours And he called to me in the moonlight: "Why does the fold now weep to behold, And how does it feel to be free?" I tendered the words from the tears of the same, But they dried as the dawn came upon. They came to me in the sleeping hours And they whispered to me in the moonlight: "What did you reap when you floated the keep, And whom did you trust with the key?" I buried my head in a cushion of shame - And I woke to find them all gone.

I have symptoms and memories but they don't happen simultaneously.

NAMI probably discourages this - unless it's in war vets.

Someone who hasn't experience trauma can call it "just an event" obviously it is more than that or we wouldn't be having symptoms

Her voice irritates