“Somatic Symptoms: People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach problems, and elimination problems. These people are sometimes most unfortunately mislabeled as hypochondriacs or as exaggerating their physical… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
“Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence. * In fact, many parts… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“You as a whole person are thus unable to reconcile conflicts about anger and learn to tolerate and express anger in healthy ways. Inner… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Changes in Relationship with others: It is especially hard to trust other people if you have been repeatedly abused, abandoned or betrayed as a… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion that is… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Changes in the Perception of Self: People who have been traumatized in childhood are often troubled by guilt, shame, and negative feelings about themselves,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Complex PTSD consists of of six symptom clusters, which also have been described in terms of dissociation of personality. Of course, people who receive… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“People with Complex PTSD suffer from more severe and frequent dissociation symptoms, as well as memory and attention problems, than those with simple PTSD.… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Somatic Symptoms: People with Complex PTSD often have medical unexplained physical symptoms such as abdominal pains, headaches, joint and muscle pain, stomach problems, and… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse: Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their emotions and… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Changes in Meaning: Finally, chronically traumatized people lose faith that good things can happen and people can be kind and trustworthy. They feel hopeless,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Some dissociative parts of the personality, living in trauma time, may experience the same emotion no matter the situation, such as fear, rage, shame,… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
“Fear and anxiety affect decision making in the direction of more caution and risk aversion... Traumatized individuals pay more attention to cues of threat… — Suzette Boon Copy Share
