helplessness Archives - Traumatized Motherfuckers

8.28 Bitesized WRAP on Filial Obligation

Aug 22, 2022 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Filial Obligation and Entrapment, Git Educated | Intermediate, Obligated Relationships, Patron Season 08, Seasons, Subscriber Content

Might be episode overkill, but I think we learned a lot. Let's pull all the academic and community-experiential...

8.27 CMNTY Co-LAB Filial Obligation II

Aug 20, 2022 | Subscriber Content, Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Filial Obligation and Entrapment, Git Educated | Intermediate, MF Speaks, Patron Season 08, Seasons

Originally published in September, moved for conversation cohesiveness. Y'all still had more to say and I love it....

8.26 CMNTY CoLAB | Filial Obligation, Entrapment, and Suicidal ideation

Aug 20, 2022 | Filial Obligation and Entrapment, Git Educated | Intermediate, MF Speaks, Obligated Relationships, Patron Season 08, Seasons, Subscriber Content

What've other MFs got to say? Let's hear about personal experiences and ongoing challenges with filial caregiving,...

8.23 {TW} Entrapment/Defeat, Negative Self-Appraisal, and Suicidality | Obligated Relationships Pt. II

Aug 5, 2022 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Filial Obligation and Entrapment, Git Educated | Intermediate, Obligated Relationships, Patron Season 08, Seasons, Subscriber Content

Feel stuck? Getting hopeless? This conversation applies to all conversations! IF you're feeling obligated to someone...

7.18 Your Newly Diagnosed Perspective; Barriers, Supports, and Self-Stigma | Research

May 14, 2022 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Patron Season 07, Research, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Yer Traumatized Perspective, Your COMPLEXLY Traumatized Perspective

So, even getting to a CPTSD diagnosis can be hard. USING that diagnosis effectively can be even harder. There are...

7.17 Your Undiagnosed Perspective | “When you don’t know what’s wrong” Research

May 8, 2022 | Audio Podcasts | Subscribers, Git Educated | Intermediate, Patron Season 07, Research, Seasons, Subscriber Content, Yer Traumatized Perspective, Your COMPLEXLY Traumatized Perspective

So, you've built some traumatized perspectives. But what happens before you KNOW about them? Have you heard the term...

12. Losing your Self

Jan 13, 2022 | Public Blog, Blog, Education, LIVING with Complex Trauma, Our Complex Trauma Learnings So Far, Public Season 01, Transcripts

This here is the blog version of the podcast stream miniseries on CPTSD, episode... maybe "the last of them." When...

Where anxiety and depression collide… I get totally railed.

Dec 13, 2020 | Subscriber Content, Git Educated | Intermediate

Hey friends. Long time no talk. I want to say "I'm sorry" for not putting out more personal posts lately, but...

Where Depression and CPTSD collide, we reside.

Sep 21, 2020 | Public Blog, Blog, Depression, Shame, Rumination, LIVING with Complex Trauma

Oh lawd, there’s a topic that I’ve kindof avoided for the past year… I mean, how do you even get started with...

2.3 Early Days Rerelease: “I can’t” | Too inferior to fail

Jul 21, 2020 | Seasons, Patron Season 02, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Rereleases

This podcast episode explores the mental obstacles faced by individuals recovering from trauma and how to overcome them. The host shares personal experiences with self-doubt, perfectionism, and fear of failure, discussing how these challenges can hinder personal growth and recovery. The episode emphasizes the importance of starting new habits despite discomfort, learning from failures, and breaking negative thought patterns. Listeners are encouraged to embrace imperfection and persevere through initial difficulties in their recovery journey.

✭ 1.15 Early Days Rerelease: Fear and Helplessness | There is no merit in worrying

Jul 1, 2020 | Most Helpful - 1 Star, Patron Season 01, Public Content, Public Podcast, Public Rereleases, Seasons, Voted Most Helpful

This podcast episode explores the impact of fear, helplessness, and excessive worrying on individuals with complex trauma. The host shares personal experiences with driving anxiety and agoraphobia, discussing how these issues developed and were eventually overcome. The episode offers insights into the nature of worry, its roots in trauma, and practical strategies to challenge and reduce anxious thought patterns. Listeners are encouraged to focus on present realities rather than imagined future scenarios and to build self-trust through action.