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cPTSD vs. PTSD: What’s the Difference?

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Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) is somewhat different from PTSD. Here’s what you need to know about distinguishing cPTSD from PTSD and the treatment for each of these conditions.

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What Is PTSD?

Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a syndrome that affects some people who have been through a traumatic event. Traumatic events typically involve serious harm or the threat of serious harm. Examples include things like sexual assault, motor vehicle accidents, combat, sexual or physical abuse, assault or mugging, natural disasters, and accidents. Traumatic events can also involve the unexpected or violent loss of a loved one.

If you experience the following symptoms due to a traumatic event, you may have PTSD:

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Your Easy Guide to the DBT’s GIVE Skills

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Not every relationship is worth preserving. For those relationships you want to maintain or improve, The ‘GIVE’ skills from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) help you do just that.

G — (Be) Gentle. One part of being gentle is to avoid being attacking or threatening in your communication. These types of actions are likely to put others on the defensive and to have a destructive effect on the relationship. This skill is important to use especially when the other person doesn’t do something you’d like them to do. It can be tempting to use anger or threats to change their mind, but this will not help you accomplish your goal of maintaining the relationship. Instead, be willing to take “no” for an answer.

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Change Is Inevitable

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Lots of people have difficulty with change — but it always comes. Change is inevitable. So how can we improve our emotional and mental health to be better at coping with it?

Being Unprepared for Change Is a Problem

Life is full of changes. So why do they throw us for a loop so often?

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How to Be Awesome at Self-Soothing and Self-Care

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We all need the ability to soothe and care for ourselves. But how can we best do these things? Here we offer some tips to help you master these important skills.

We Need All the Help We Can Get

21st-century living can be very demanding. People are often consumed by their day to day responsibilities such as work, household chores, or taking care of loved ones. Often there is little choice but to focus on the next task on the to-do list. As a result, we neglect taking the time to care for ourselves, which can leave us feeling stressed and burned out.

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