Book Recommendation

[bpdmom1]

Not sure this is the right place, but I've been reading (actually listening to the audio book) "The Body Keeps Score".  It is about trama.  It discusses what is going on it the brain, discusses medication, and different types of therapies and how well they work. 

It has been very insightful to me when it comes to my BPD daughter who was adopted at age 11 months and then at the age of 11 had a traumatic injury.

It was recommended to my by the boarding school my daughter is attending.

Our objective is to better understand the struggles our child faces and to learn the skills to improve our relationship and provide a supportive environment and also improve on our own emotional responses, attitudes and effectiveness as a family leaders

[AnotherWon]

My uBPDs attended rehab and believe the author was affiliated there.  They did a Trauma Week where patients listed all their trauma from birth through age 17.  Their definition of trauma was anything that was less than nurturing.  So it could encompass all kinds of situations.  They spent that week going over these and breaking them down, how it made him feel, how it changed him. Can you imagine working out all that as a young adult?  He felt very fortunate to do it and was super-impressed by the doctors facilitating it.  I'm sure the body-brain connection there is HUGE.  I tend to think that one of the helpful things that will result from our decade-plus war in the Middle East will be incredible research in PTSD.  Glad you found it!

[bpdmom1]

We did a three day parent workshop through my BPD daughter school.  We formed groups and focused on our own traumas.  Some appeared very small, but affected them none the less.  I think we only scratched the surface.  I'm starting to think that a lot of the mental illnesses are actually trauma based.

[wendydarling]

Thank you BPDmom1 for the recommendation, I'll put that on my reading list. Useful to hear their definition of trauma anything less than nurturing Anotherwon. 

[lbjnltx]

I was told "trauma is stored in the body at the cellular level".  Scary to even think about this for our very sensitive children.  The circumstances of living in this world are fraught with events that they can experience as traumatic:

first day of school

loss of a pet

loss of a grandparent

moving

breakup with a boy/girlfriend

bullying

invalidation

finding out Santa Claus isn't real

Looking at the world through their eyes helps us understand their pain.

lbjnltx

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