by Jolene | Sep 24, 2015 | In Children, PTSD
What Causes PTSD in Children? When adults think about what causes PTSD in children, most have an easy time coming up with a short list. Physical, sexual, and verbal abuse make the list. So do natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes....
by Jolene | Sep 17, 2015 | In Children, PTSD
10 Myths about PTSD in Children Thank you for stopping by for the third installment in the series about PTSD in children, also known as childhood developmental trauma. Part 2 in the series provided definitions of trauma, PTSD, and childhood developmental trauma. With...
by Jolene | Sep 10, 2015 | In Children, PTSD
Childhood Trauma, by Any Other Name, Is Still Traumatic As was mentioned in the first post in this series, my first acquaintance with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in children was not intentional. Rather, I stumbled into the world of childhood trauma in 2008...
by Jolene | Sep 3, 2015 | In Children, PTSD
Writing about PTSD in Children Was Not on My Bucket List I have loved to tell stories for as long as I can remember. Show and tell was my favorite subject in school. My second favorite subject was when the teacher read aloud after lunch. The actual writing of stories...
by Kathryn Sneed | Jun 26, 2015 | In Parents, PTSD
Special Needs Parents and Trauma: Medically Induced PTSD Today, Different Dream is wrapping up its ongoing series about PTSD in parents of kids with special needs. Guest blogger Kathryn Sneed is here to share her story of medically-induced PTSD. Perhaps you will see...
by Jolene | Jun 25, 2015 | In Children, PTSD
Shouting PTSD Awareness from the Mountaintop In the small midwestern town where I grew up during the 1960s, the words cancer, pregnant, divorce, sex, and mental illness were always spoken in whispers, accompanied by dark looks, furtive glances, and the covering of...
