Topic
Trauma therapy
Evidence-based therapies for PTSD and complex trauma, including EMDR, prolonged exposure, cognitive processing therapy, and somatic approaches.
25 articles tagged Trauma therapy
PTSD vs ADHD: Why They Get Mistaken for Each Other
Hypervigilance can look like inattention, and both affect focus, sleep and mood. How PTSD and ADHD are told apart, and why they are often diagnosed together.
Childhood Emotional Neglect: The Thing That Did Not Happen
Neglect is defined by absence, which is why it leaves no memory to point at. The evidence for its effects is real and smaller than most accounts claim.
Complex PTSD vs BPD: What the Research Actually Separates
A latent class analysis found them to be distinguishable profiles rather than one condition under two names. The difference the data lands on is stability.
Emotional Flashbacks: Why They Do Not Look Like Flashbacks
An emotional flashback has no picture attached, which is why so few people recognise one. It arrives as a feeling and a belief that both seem entirely current.
Fear of Abandonment: When Is It a Problem?
Fear of abandonment is ordinary at low intensity and a treatable pattern at the far end. Where it comes from, why reassurance stops working, and what helps.
Complex PTSD: A Real Diagnosis, in One Manual Only
Complex PTSD is recognised in ICD-11 and absent from DSM-5. That split explains why one clinician can diagnose it and the next says it does not exist.
Moral Injury: When the Wound Is to Your Conscience
Some events damage your sense of right and wrong rather than your sense of safety. That is a different injury from PTSD, and it needs different words.
The Inner Critic: Where That Voice Comes From
The harsh internal voice is usually borrowed rather than invented, and it thinks it is helping. Why arguing with it fails, and what works in its place.
Emotional Numbness: Six Reasons You Feel Nothing
Feeling emotionally numb is a symptom with several causes, and each points at different help. How to tell depression, trauma, burnout and medication apart.
DID vs BPD: Why They Get Confused
BPD is the diagnosis most often given to people who actually have DID. What separates identity disturbance from separated states, and why they get confused.
Dissociative Identity Disorder: What It Really Is
Dissociative identity disorder is a trauma-related condition, not a plot device. What it really involves, how it is misread, and what treatment looks like.
Disorganised Attachment Style: What It Actually Means
Disorganised attachment is an infant classification describing seconds of behaviour, not an adult personality type. The distinction changes what you do.
Nightmares in Adults: Causes and What Helps
Adult nightmares are treatable, and the treatment with the best evidence is not medication at all. It is rewriting the dream, in detail, while you are awake.
After a Disaster: What Helps in the First Weeks
Distress after an earthquake or disaster is a normal reaction, not a disorder. What actually helps in the first weeks, and the one intervention to avoid.
Coercive Control: Abuse That Leaves No Marks
A pattern of control, monitoring and isolation is abuse, and a growing number of countries now treat it as a crime with no violence required at all.
Does Talking About Trauma Help? What Research Shows
Talking about a trauma right after it happens can make things worse. What the evidence says about debriefing, which therapies work, and when to seek help.
The Fawn Response: When Pleasing Is Survival
Fawning is appeasement used as protection. Where the term came from, why it is not a clinical diagnosis, and what actually shifts the pattern over time.
The Freeze Response: Why You Could Not Move or Speak
Freezing during an assault is common, involuntary, and predicts worse outcomes. It answers the question survivors are asked most and blame themselves for.
How Grooming Works, and Why It Is Hard to Spot
Grooming is a slow process built on trust rather than a single moment. The stages, why victims often do not recognise it, and what actually helps.
Hypervigilance: A Setting, Not a Personality
Hypervigilance is threat detection stuck switched on. It is a symptom rather than a diagnosis, it was correct once, and the treatable part is the threshold.
Trauma and PTSD: Symptoms, Causes, and How It's Treated
A 2026 guide to psychological trauma and PTSD: how it presents, how it differs from complex PTSD, and which therapies currently have the best evidence.
CBT measured across 375 trials, and it is not one number
A unified meta-analysis put CBT for eleven disorders on the same scale. Effects ranged from large for PTSD and phobias to modest for bipolar and psychosis.
Trauma-Informed Therapy: What It Is and What It Is Not
Trauma-informed describes how a service treats you, not a therapy you can be referred to. Knowing the difference changes what you ask for, and what you get.
What Is Trauma Bonding? Signs and Why It Holds
Trauma bonding is an attachment built by alternating harm and relief, not by weakness. How the cycle forms, the signs to look for, and what loosens it.
The Four Trauma Responses Explained
Fight, flight, freeze and fawn are survival strategies, not personality types. Where each one came from, and where the popular version overreaches badly.