PTSD: Taking Back Your Power
A set of emotional problems that can occur after someone has experienced a terrible, stressful life event.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
A set of simple strategies to detach from emotional pain so that you can gain control over your feelings and stay safe.
What are Grounding Techniques?
The 3 stages of healing from PTSD and substance abuse.
What is Safety, Mourning and Reconnection?
This coping skill involves reaching out to someone safe for support during challenging moments.
What is Asking for Help?
Blaming, and beating yourself up is an example of this.
What is Harsh Self-Talk?
The two types of PTSD.
What are Simple PTSD and Complex PTSD?
The three major ways of grounding.
What are Mental, Physical and Soothing?
A space, i.e., the beach, your therapist's office, your room, that helps you feel calm and connected.
What is a Safe Place?
For both PTSD and substance abuse, this is essential for recovery.
What is Other People's Help?
Repeated incidents such as domestic violence or ongoing childhood abuse.
What is Complex PTSD?
Focusing on your senses (e.g., touch, hearing, smell, taste and sight).
What is Physical Grounding?
Asking for help, setting a boundary in a relationship, rethinking the relations are all examples of this.
What are Safe Coping Skills?
The two main themes of PTSD and Substance abuse.
What is Secrecy and Control?
This type of grounding encourages describing your environment in detail, saying a safe statement, using humor and more.
What is Mental Grounding?
In this stage of healing, you will find yourself more willing and able to experience the world in joyful ways, relate and work well to others, thrive and enjoy life.
What is Reconnection?
Strategies to manage distressing memories or situations.
What are Coping Skills?
The symptoms associated with PTSD.
What is intrusion, avoidance, arousal and lower functioning?
Saying kind statements, thinking of favorites, picturing people you care about, and remembering a safe place are all examples of this. say a coping statement
What is Soothing?
These are the key indicators that someone has made significant progress in healing from trauma, including being able to talk about the trauma without becoming emotionally overwhelmed, function in daily life, build healthy relationships, and care for oneself both physically and emotionally.
What are the signs of recovery?
A structured list of 25 topics designed to help individuals develop coping skills and strategies to manage trauma and substance use issues.
What is an Approach Sheet?