C-PTSD (FIGHT FLIGHT FREEZE FAWN...): WHAT IS MY TRAUMA TYPE?

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This video is the first of several this week focused on understanding your trauma types/trauma responses within C-PTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).
We begin by exploring and explaining what it means when we say "trauma types or trauma responses or trauma defenses" and how these patterns impact how we perceive and engage in issues related to threat, self protection, intimacy, relationships, vulnerability, etc.
A journal prompt to reflect on the video is provided at the end:)
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[@gojiberry7201]

Thank you for your videos, am looking forward to this series. My C-PTSD is a recent diagnosis (always believed I was just born this way and that my family was great, seriously). Now that the illusion has come down I am learning all I can about BPD, C-PTSD, codependence, etc. Channels like yours help so much. Peace from Reno, Nevada

[@sxfnlc]

I have been stuck for like 8 months in fight, flight, freeze and fawn. It’s a living hell. I have been paralyzed in fear and immobility as well.

[@linnkristinhaugen5781]

You're so calming to listen to. I love your videos. Thank you for doing this.

[@allwellandgood8547]

Dr Sage this series is so insightful, thank you. Last year I started a psychology degree as a mature student (finally felt worthy of investing in myself, 20 years too late!)I love how you reference the studies, it fascinates me. Looking forward to learning more about each response with you this week.🙏💙

[@DrKimSage]

Thank you and I am so excited for you that you are pursuing yourself at this point in life!!:). Yay!! Never give up!!

[@allwellandgood8547]

@@DrKimSage thank you Dr Sage, I am too. Thank you for inspiring me. 😊❤

[@shelliebancroft4145]

It is never too late to invest in yourself.

[@Rose19695]

Thank you, Dr. Sage. I appreciate the connection between the nervous system and attachment. My mother used a lot of emotional blackmail when I was growing up. Even now at 53 yrs. old, I get jumpy when my fiance is a grouch due to being in a lot of physical pain, for example. Through your videos and psychotherapy, I'm learning to take inventory of what my body feels like during stressful moments. I learned that I get dizzy when I feel confused and this is from all the gaslighting I experienced as a child. It's fascinating stuff!

[@TheGreenEyedMamma]

You’re simply amazing. Your insider’s view mixed with your intellectual gifts are so incredibly helpful. Wowser! Thank you for all you put in to these series! I’m definitely passing your resources on to my fellow warriors 😘

[@madelinem6862]

Very helpful. I think I must have been dealing with an emotional flashback after seeing the new Disney movie Turning Red a few weeks ago. I wasn't expecting it to be about the topic it ended up being about. Powerful stuff, but I had to leave the room at one point and just burst into tears. I started to withdraw from my small social circle, and literally just yesterday was able to talk it out with my closest friend, who was hurt and worried about me having gone offline for 2 weeks (my therapist nudged me too, i know isolation doesnt really help anything but probably fawn or flight at least). Some of the things you said really resonate with how I was trying to explain what was going on in my head to make me just go silent, but I was feeling very much like I wasnt being reasonable, which brings in the shame and guilt. Here's someone really seeing and knowing me and I'm ready to close the vault at a critical point because i was fearing the amount of vulnerability it takes.. but it helps a lot to know that it is probably normal, how i reacted to the flashback. It gives me good logic to continue to pull myself up from that flashback (im still a bit shaken i guess, hehe). It's been a rough few years since I started hypnotherapy, emdr and cbt after cutting off my childhood caregiver. It has been 100% necessary, but has added a lot of strain to my marriage and family, and uncertainties around every corner, along with unpredictable and confusing triggers and lots of the feeling of every step forward requiring two steps back. On top of trying to learn about my adhd which throws in its hurdles, but only just diagnosed in my 30s. Hearing you explain the trauma types and ones I hadn't heard of before, it makes sense that the core fear is intimacy. You've also given me a bit more to think about with regard to my inner critic, who I have a really hard time appreciating.. I hadn't thought about the inner parent before. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series.. it's right on time. Your presence and compassion and wisdom are so valuable. Thank you for sharing

[@cliffordbrock9242]

Hi Kim, Has anyone else said this is a complex and exhausting process. 🥴😂🤪🤔😶💋💔😣..

[@triawillow1972]

Thank you for this knowledge & the great recommendations Doctor Kim! Much much Love n Liight to you my beautiful Sister🫂💜✨

[@divinelyguided1144]

Enjoyed the series thank you 🙏🏾

[@GraeMatterz]

Could you create a playlist for this trauma type series, please?

[@AlanChambers]

Pete Walker's book. I started listening to it from Amazon Audible. Great listen.

[@schannaish]

This is so helpful, thank you! Since CPTSD isn’t in the DSM would I need to bring this to my therapist’s attention? Or will she know about this? I feel like I have CPTSD but I’ve never asked for a diagnosis.

[@FirstLast-1111]

Where's the checklist? Click the link and it takes me to stuff I have to pay for....

[@DrKimSage]

It's in the free course:)

[@ladyoftheveil8342]

One month and a half ago I was sexually abused because he jumped on me and I couldn’t move

[@tatjanakecman7236]

It wasn't too much, but it was not clear enough. I need more clarity between phenomena. In a way, it's a mishmash, and in the end, I only knew you were talking about trauma.