The Loneliest Disorder: Why Complex PTSD Gets Mistaken for a Personality Flaw
Complex PTSD wreaks havoc on your inner life. But what may be the more cruel aspect of CPTSD is what it does to the relationships around you. The ones most apt to help...
Clinical Currents: Recovery Happens Outside the Therapy Room Too feat. Lauren Roemer, MSW, LCSW-A, LCAS-A
At Momentum, clinical care shapes how we show up, how we build relationships, and how we make sense of what each young adult is carrying when they walk through our doors.
The BPD Diagnosis Was Built on a Bad Assumption About Women
Getting a borderline personality disorder diagnosis feels, to many women, like being told the problem lies in who they are. Not what happened to them. Not the chronic...
The Smile That Lies: Why So Many Traumatized Women Look Fine
Someone tells her she seems so put-together and she smiles because what else do you do with that. She has been put-together for so long she can no longer locate the seam...
It Was Never About Dying: Understanding Self-Harm in Women
Self-harm gets collapsed into suicidality in the public imagination so automatically and so completely that the two have become almost inseparable. A woman who hurts...
What 19th-Century 'Hysteria' Diagnoses Tell Us About How We Still Treat Women
In 1880, a woman in Paris could be admitted to a hospital, placed on public display in front of an auditorium of male medical students, and have her symptoms of anxiety,...
Dissociative Amnesia in Women: Why Trauma Memory Gaps Happen
Women who have experienced trauma sometimes carry something harder to describe than a painful memory. They carry the absence of one. A period of time that they can’t...
The Neuroscience of Somatic Trauma Memory
You are sitting in a restaurant. Nothing unusual is happening. The food is fine, the company is good, you have no particular reason to feel the way you suddenly feel,...
Your Nervous System Can't Tell a Bad Ex from a Bear
There is something your nervous system does that your brain would never consciously allow: it treats a text notification from a toxic relationship with the same chemical...
The Psychology Behind Adventure Therapy: Why Challenge Changes the Brain
Nobody's brain rewires itself because they had a nice, calm conversation about their feelings. That is not how neuroplasticity works.