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BOOKS:
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) by Jessica McCabe
-- Good book about ADHD, though you can get almost all of the information on their YouTube channel by the same name. Helped me learn some things about myself, but I still feel imposter syndrome; especially with how the challenges of ADHD have a ton of similarities with what the next three books talk about.
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Dr. Susan Forward
-- This one got me through a really rough time in my life and got me to set boundaries that I have never regretted. It was monumentally important for my life.
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World by Jenn Granneman
-- More recent book that really, really opened my eyes to myself. I'm serious when I say I feel this book was written about me, it describes me to a T. It's helped me to accept myself and given some practical advice for things like overstimulation.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
-- Very difficult to read, emotionally. Triggering. I had to put it down a lot. But it is incredibly informative and has helped me to understand what goes on in the body with trauma. The science behind it all is very interesting. Here's a video summary that I highly recommend! Honestly, everyone would benefit from cursory level knowledge around the biology of fight/flight/freeze/fawn, even if you don't have any trauma.
All of these books are great and really helped me grow... though I still have a lot more growing to do.
BOOKS:
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It) by Jessica McCabe
-- Good book about ADHD, though you can get almost all of the information on their YouTube channel by the same name. Helped me learn some things about myself, but I still feel imposter syndrome; especially with how the challenges of ADHD have a ton of similarities with what the next three books talk about.
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life by Dr. Susan Forward
-- This one got me through a really rough time in my life and got me to set boundaries that I have never regretted. It was monumentally important for my life.
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World by Jenn Granneman
-- More recent book that really, really opened my eyes to myself. I'm serious when I say I feel this book was written about me, it describes me to a T. It's helped me to accept myself and given some practical advice for things like overstimulation.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
-- Very difficult to read, emotionally. Triggering. I had to put it down a lot. But it is incredibly informative and has helped me to understand what goes on in the body with trauma. The science behind it all is very interesting. Here's a video summary that I highly recommend! Honestly, everyone would benefit from cursory level knowledge around the biology of fight/flight/freeze/fawn, even if you don't have any trauma.
All of these books are great and really helped me grow... though I still have a lot more growing to do.
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This was so relatable, and yet so freaking adorable to see from you! Your comics are always just so welcoming and so flipping lovable to see from you, and I'm just so flipping stoked to seeing so much more of your amazingly illustrated works and lovable characters in the future! Keep doing great!
At the Rehab I worked at, we really leaned into The Body Keeps The Score to help patients understand knock-on physiological effects of Trauma spectrum (and related) disorders.
Ask a Trauma Informed Care clinician if they've had to make use of Boost™ to keep a patient's nutrition somewhat stable, and you'll almost always get a yes; rarely an emphatic yes. It's really quite the condition to be neurologically hard-lined to your adrenal system.
Ask a Trauma Informed Care clinician if they've had to make use of Boost™ to keep a patient's nutrition somewhat stable, and you'll almost always get a yes; rarely an emphatic yes. It's really quite the condition to be neurologically hard-lined to your adrenal system.
Trauma spectrum disorders often cause people to have too much cortisol and adrenal response to keep food down. Your body naturally responds to danger with things like nausea if your stomach is full, folks often vomit in high stress situations. This problem compounds when you're dealing with PTSD where there's a lot more ambient activation due to the circular neurological loop that is commonly part of the problem.
This seems to be very common at least in the people I know. Not to downplay it at all buuut... it is almost as if there is a whole generation of people who are screwed up because of terrible parenting. HMMM. It is more complicated than that of course, but.. FUDGE! I've at points found it sad that I have found it hard to relate to someone that isn't from a poor, and messed up family.
I'm glad you're bettering yourself! I've always thought people should keep doing that otherwise what is the point in our existence?
I'm glad you're bettering yourself! I've always thought people should keep doing that otherwise what is the point in our existence?
It's upsetting to learn that somewhere between 25-50% of children are mistreated or abused at some point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adver.....od_experiences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adver.....od_experiences
Noooooowooooo. Poor baby. I know it hurts. It hurts a lot. But there are people who are so glad you are still here working through it along with us and our own problems. I think for me it's emotional abandonment and my inferiority complex. Probably why I'm so serious and up-tight these days, ever since post middle school really. I need to learn to relax and rely on others and seek out help and that it's okay to lean on someone instead of trying to carry everything else myself. I just turned 25 on March 11th but as I've been saying ever since year 4 of 6 in highschool (I took two extra years to try and use a career program but the pandemic ruined it pretty much)
Every year I age physically, I age mentally double.
Meaning both wisdom and stress. I really do feel like "Wow, my parents only seemed to start feeling like this when I was 10 and that meant they were over 40. I feel like this now still living in the basement paying rent and constantly cooking and cleaning and running errands on my days off work in retail. Yaaay, fun."
Yeah, sometimes it doesn't get any easier or any better.
But there's one thing that I've learned about that.
We get stronger.
Experience is everything. In life you need knowledge, you need power, you need wisdom, you need allies. And the only way you get that is through countless failures and your lived experiences.
Experience matters more then everything. Experience makes everything. And we can't do it alone and never have to. That's what connection is for. And we are in fact connected because when every life meets another life, that's what is born.
Every year I age physically, I age mentally double.
Meaning both wisdom and stress. I really do feel like "Wow, my parents only seemed to start feeling like this when I was 10 and that meant they were over 40. I feel like this now still living in the basement paying rent and constantly cooking and cleaning and running errands on my days off work in retail. Yaaay, fun."
Yeah, sometimes it doesn't get any easier or any better.
But there's one thing that I've learned about that.
We get stronger.
Experience is everything. In life you need knowledge, you need power, you need wisdom, you need allies. And the only way you get that is through countless failures and your lived experiences.
Experience matters more then everything. Experience makes everything. And we can't do it alone and never have to. That's what connection is for. And we are in fact connected because when every life meets another life, that's what is born.
Been reading another one lately and it's probably one of the best and most helpful of all the books I've read.. so here's another one I'd highly recommend. Even more than the others if you have a history of childhood trauma
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
The whole audio book is also on YouTube if you just search up the name
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
The whole audio book is also on YouTube if you just search up the name
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