What is a more practical and applied book on recovering from trauma?
from sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 01:50
https://sopuli.xyz/post/37261354

I dont want a 1000pg treatise that’s just descriptive, I want to know what can be done actively now to dtart to dissolve all that shit

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BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Nov 02:22 next collapse

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory By Deb Dana

An accessible and practical book on the underpinnings of somatic trauma therapy. Literally changes lives.

www.penguin.com.au/books/anchored-9781785045325

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 26 Nov 02:36 collapse

Thank you so much for this

BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 26 Nov 03:34 collapse

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HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip on 26 Nov 02:43 collapse

Depending on your trauma Complex PTSD by Pete Walker I’ve found helpful

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 26 Nov 13:35 collapse

Can you give an example of an actual like prescriptive exercise or tool it offers?

HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip on 26 Nov 15:00 collapse

I think I’m not fully clear on what you mean by prescriptive vs descriptive, but the section on shrinking your inner critic has both a description of the concept and the positive outcomes, as well as practical mental exercises you can undertake to try and address essentially a trauma survivor’s inner voice of self-hatred.

This is from his site and gives some examples of the way he writes and the type of exercises he uses, but isn’t as exhaustive as I remember the book being.

pete-walker.com/homesteading_practices.html

sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz on 26 Nov 15:18 collapse

Thanks will peruse.

Sorry for being unclear, my experience has been when asking for recommendations or specific stuff a lot of times online, the people who raised the subject will basically lobby for whatever expensive therapy or modality or whatever exclusive teacher, often saying vaguely something equivalent to “its worked wonders for me”, but they literally cannot elaborate or give even a crumb of utility to you to dip your toe in with nor do they have any examples 9.9x/10 haha

So thank you for giving something tangible and practical here <3

My problem with so many sources on trauma is a traumatized person needs a freaking cheatsheet to get started and safe and they can learn all the science and history and theory later if they are interested but they are so descriptive when what people really need and crave is to take action now to get feeling better. They need a prescriptive treatment, not descriptive, they already know how they feel and why it sucks and the story of how they got there, they need something to actually treat it.

Its like going to the Dr (buying and maybe reading the book) and the Dr doing everything except offering treatment and saying buy his next book and maybe he’ll throw you a bone with a practical exercise to help start feeling better. Its a real weird oversight on the behalf of the industry and authors on the subject, its like “get to f^*+in treatment you fools”