Category: Recovery
How does trauma bonding affect the brain?
One of many ways victims can help their brain break a trauma bond is by facilitating the release of calming oxytocin (from the amygdala). Igniting oxytocin receptors of this type can reduce cravings, ease withdrawal, and lessen pain. What causes someone to violate a person they claimed to love? There are many reasons, for example, substance or alcohol abuse, a… Read More How does trauma bonding affect the brain?
Common Reaction of the brain to an abuser
Several important ingredients that contribute to someone’s “addiction” to their abuser are oxytocin (bonding), endogenous opioids (pleasure, pain, withdrawal, dependence), corticotropin-releasing factor (withdrawal, stress), and dopamine (craving, seeking, wanting). With such strong neurochemistry in dysregulated states, it will be extremely difficult to manage emotions or make logical decisions. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/neurosagacity/201701/the-brain-can-work-against-abuse-victims
Trauma Bond with Abusive Parent
The term ‘trauma bond‘ is also known as Stockholm Syndrome. It describes a deep bond which forms between a victim and their abuser. Victims of abuse often develop a strong sense of loyalty towards their abuser, despite the fact that the bond is damaging to them. The symptoms of trauma bonding can manifest: Negative feelings for potential rescuers Support of abusers… Read More Trauma Bond with Abusive Parent
Can a victim of emotional abuse become an abuser?
Abuse victims, like anyone in relationships with high emotional reactivity, build automatic defense systems, which include preemptive strikes — if you expect to be criticized, stonewalled, or demeaned, you may well do it first. Victims can easily develop a reactive narcissism that makes them seem like abusers https://parentalalienation-pas.com/2021/07/03/can-a-victim-of-emotional-abuse-become-an-abuser/
What do clients say about their experiences of EMDR in the research literature?
EMDR is talked about in a transformative manner. There are conditions, which need to be present for EMDR to work, and connections exist between the EMDR method and therapist as agents of change. For practitioners, a pluralistic approach, incorporating the EMDR method could be used to carry out tasks in therapy to achieve therapeutic goals… Read More What do clients say about their experiences of EMDR in the research literature?
Change
“Change is the natural order of things and not something that you benefit from resisting.We live in a time of enormous upheaval on a global scale, and more and more people are seeing huge changes in their personal lives as well. It is the nature of the world in which we live.Move with grace in the… Read More Change
Linda C J Turner | Trauma Therapist & Emotional Healing Specialist 