The new "Common Sense" For CPTSD, May 2, 2016
By Kathryn L. Hamilton
This review is from: How to STOP an Emotional Flashback (Kindle Edition)
I have read how to get Revenge on a Narcissist by the same authors and gave it five stars as a unique way to understand and reclaim your self-worth and power back after undergoing abuse at the hands of anyone who falls into the spectrum of “Cluster B,” and gave it five stars.
This book is about how to try and heal the wounds inflicted on the victims/survivors of antisocial personalities, mainly narcissists, we the victims/survivors who suffer from Complex PTSD in their wake, and honestly, it’s the new “Common Sense,” of my personal view of psychology.
Reading it right away, there are things that help instantly with the problem of living a life after being around antisocial personality types, whose actions and words leave you with feelings that reality is conflicting and not safe. I can also say that reading it once, you realize you need to do this over and over for several weeks to instigate real and lasting behavioral changes in yourself, which can lead to a permanent state of being at peace with yourself, understanding what happened on an emotional, psychological, and neurological level, and allowing yourself to feel that these things were wrong.
What I was struck by was the personal definition of the authors of the state of emotional flashbacks for CPTSD. Understanding that the abuse went on for so long, and there was no escape, they explain that it is not just about specific flashbacks to traumatic events, its hugely about your entire being having been in that situation, trying to deal with it, and the negative self-behavior (I.E. inner criticism, bad self-care, being afraid to take care of yourself as you would take care of others, or not having any idea how to do so.)
It is a guide line to change these behaviors and heal, and help break out of a cycle of feeling badly and ending up in the same situation, just with different places, people, and events.
It makes so much sense I would be very surprised it is not labeled controversial and dismissed by mainstream psychology, at first. However, the state things are as they are in the field, and having seen therapists for two decades with less to show for it than I have in reading these books and watching the many youtube video’s Richard Grannon puts out (for free) out of Spartanlifecoach.com, this is not a bad thing. The world of psychology needs to change, and this is real help for people with CPTSD.
It’s worth more than they are charging by far and honestly priceless as what it can do for someone seeking to get their life back in balance, or for me, in balance for the first time.