Complex PTSD and Developmental Trauma Disorder

By: J. B. Snow

Narrated by: Ashley Huyge

Length: 55 mins

Publisher's Summary

Most people are familiar with PTSD. But many have not heard of complex PTSD and developmental trauma disorder. As adults, many of us experience symptoms of anxiety and depression. We feel chronically stressed. We have trouble trusting others, or we may even experience feelings of paranoia in our relationships with others. We struggle to define what it is that is bothering us, and we struggle to find ways effective ways to treat it.

Adults often seek counseling and medical attention with complaints and symptoms of physical illness, anxiety, depression, mental illness or personality disorders. Many of us fail to connect the dots from what we are experiencing today to the things that we learned and experienced as children. Our habits and memories are forming even before we begin to speak. Many people struggle to realize that the negative habits that we learned often were learned as children or adolescents from others who were poor role models to us.

The truth is that childhood neglect, abuse, and emotional trauma can affect us for a lifetime. What we are exposed to even as toddlers can literally affect how our brains develop going forward. Our experiences certainly affect and shape our habits, and many of us pick up negative habits from our parents that we are not even aware of. We learn maladaptive ways to cope with a noisy and chaotic world instead of learning positive and healthy ways to cope. We often use the coping mechanisms that our parents taught us, even if those are pornography, alcohol, sex, violence, drugs and overeating.

Many people who experience these maladaptive coping mechanisms often label themselves as feeling 'crazy' in their adulthood. They struggle to regulate their own emotions in a healthy way. They make poor decisions. They feel as though they are constantly on autopilot in their lives. They don't realize that these are all natural and human reactions to the trauma that they had gone through.

©2016 J.B. Snow (P)2016 J.B. Snow

Don't waste your $

Extremely simplistic. The only person that might benefit would be someone that is at the very beginning stages of attempting to understand the human psyche. Even then I think they could find a more credible and informative source.

5 of 6 people found this review helpful

good info

Good foundational info on PTSD and CPTSD as well as childhood trauma into adulthood etc

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Couldn't wait to finish...torture to listen

The narration sounds like she is reading a series of several hundred bulleted items. (Which is, perhaps the case.). Her inflections often fall in the wrong place in the sentence, as if she is not comprehending, but just reading, verbatem, what is put in front of her. There is no emotion or sensitivity displayed, which seems harsh, given that the reader is probably seeking insights about a real person. It is almost "sing-song".

The content is like looking a word up in the dictionary. A no-nonsense list of possible causes, some skimpy illumination of how certain conditions might present, but only one or two. The barest of explanations. And considering the breadth of possible causes, it's a wonder that not EVERYONE has PTSD.
II found this listen to be far more annoying than enlightening. And the way she says "P-T-S-D" makes it sound even more horrible and threatening. It certainly did not make me want to hear another chapter.

would be worthwhile if without vilification of men

the basic are there but the language of the author is sexist, and fails to follow the research on abuse and betrayal. This makes the book harmful. it's a good start though.

Helpful if you want to learn codependent issues

This book is great for issues with family members who have drug or addiction to alcohol.

good story, message is "on point"!

Narrator sounds robotic which gives this a textbook feel. Alot of the points make sense and I appreciate how brief the book is. The ending chapter gives fantastic tips on reducing PTSD symptoms. Again, simple but effective.

This book was short, concise and to the point. <br />

It is a reminder for the professional and a definition for the layperson. Loved it.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful