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Today's podcast in the first in a series of topics that will be discussed regarding mental health, counseling, psychotherapy, and healing from trauma and abuse with a focus on dissociation as a way the brain copes with childhood trauma and abuse. The topic featured this week is a very brief overview of mental health disorders that develop in human brains where the brain does not function as normally expected with regard to conscience and empathy. Personality disorders and schizophrenia were the main points of discussion.

In today's podcast I discuss the diagnoses of PTSD and CPTSD with a comparison and contrasting to demonstrate the similarities and differences. I give some case examples to illustrate some of the differences.

Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders

Today I am going to talk about dissociation and give a brief overview of dissociative disorders.

So today I'm going to talk about something in response to a question I got from podcast one. The question was does aphantasia which is the inability to voluntarily generate a visual mental image, does that interfere with autobiographical recall of information?

Let’s put this all together

Today I want to connect what I have talked about so far and give some examples of what it could look like when I have a client that has CPTSD. WHAT TRAUMA REALLY IS, is not what most people think.

Many Rooms: One House

Today I am going to talk about dissociative identity disorder. In both popular media and clinical spaces, Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID is often framed as anomalous or sensational and something to be afraid of.