What is sexual coercion? Sexual coercion is getting someone to a sexual yes without their real consent, through threats, punishment, force, pressure or other negative forms of power. Sexual coercion is always a form of sexual violence, even when nobody was physically...
Is there a cure for CPTSD? CPTSD is treatable. The same trauma-focused therapies that treat PTSD, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE) and EMDR, treat CPTSD, and many people finish treatment with their symptoms below the PTSD threshold and keep...
CPTSD vs PTSD: what’s the difference? PTSD is a learned fear response. CPTSD is that same learned fear response, plus damage to how you manage your emotions, how you see yourself, and how you connect with other people. In the US, both are diagnosed as PTSD,...
What is CPTSD? CPTSD stands for complex post-traumatic stress disorder. Internationally, it means the same learned fear response as PTSD, plus damage to how you manage your emotions, how you see yourself, and how you connect with other people. Here in the US, there is...
The fawn response isn’t part of fight, flight, or freeze. Fight, flight, and freeze are things your body instinctually does, whereas fawning is a learned behavior: something you learned to do to prevent a possible threat from escalating or happening in the first...
What counts as trauma, according to the diagnostic manual therapists use in the US, is exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence. The examples it gives were never meant to be the full list; the manual says in its own words that its...
