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Sharing – Just how useful is childhood therapy?
Unfortunately, whether therapy is effective for your child, or for yourself as an adult, depends on a number of factors. Finding someone you can trust is an obvious one, and sometimes a real struggle. Elsewhere in the article, Melinda talks about the child not currently being in a traumatic situation, notably one interviewee who was seeing a therapist for depression while also being sexually abused at home. She knew she could talk about that, so the therapy was doomed from the start.
Sometimes I believe we look at mental health treatments like therapy and dismiss them because “it didn’t work” without considering all of the outside factors that can influence whether it works or not.
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Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 13, 2022
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Sharing – When Childhood Trauma Leads to Anxiety
When you grow up constantly on the lookout for the “next” danger that was coming your way, or constantly worried about your own safety as a result of other people’s moods and actions, that doesn’t just stop when you become an adult. And, when you cannot turn it off, that can easily roll right into an anxiety issue.
And, I can also tell you firsthand that even when you do the therapy and some of the other suggestions from the article below, it can come back during especially stressful times.
Like now.
So, if this describes you, you’re not alone.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 30, 2022
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Toxic positivity & victim blaming women – It’s a short drive from “everything happens for a reason” to “you deserved that”. Just no to all of it.
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Trauma-informed care in mental health: what should it look like
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‘I Don’t Want To Be A Burden’: On Black Men, Suicide And How To Be A Safe Space
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You Are Not Alone in Your Grief, No Matter How ‘Messy’ It Is
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How to Cope with Feeling Off and Getting Back to Your ‘‘Normal’’
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Healing From Trauma Means Cleaning Up the Mess You Didn’t Make
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