By Jonathan Pishner People often fail to seek treatment for their trauma because it's "not bad enough". There is no objective measure for which traumas deserve treatment; if a negative event was traumatic, it deserves treatment. Other people's trauma cannot beat up your trauma. In this video, Jonathan shares more ideas about how trauma [...]
By Jonathan Pishner With all of the new stressors added daily, piling on top of the old stressors, many people are getting worn down. This can lead to a type of trauma called "wear and tear" trauma. Jonathan shares some ideas for how to keep your psychological "shields" as strong as possible so that you [...]
by: Jonathan Pishner When people think about trauma, they usually think about “survival” trauma; the car crashes, assaults, war trauma, abuse, etc. These survival situations get locked into our brain, which becomes what we familiarly think about in regards to surviving trauma. What we now know is this: Survival traumas are not the only type [...]
By: Jonathan Pishner Helping a child deal with a loss can feel very complicated. Parents sometimes struggle with how to tell their child that a [...]
By Jonathan Pishner It's a very hard thing to watch a loved one go through the pain of a traumatic experience. Sometimes these experiences are shared, and sometimes one member of a family experiences the event. Either way, one of the most important roles of family and friends is to help and support those [...]
By Jonathan Pishner One of the major problems with trauma is that treating it yourself can be difficult. It's not usually like frustration or work stress, where you might be able to make a small life change or read a simple self-help book and get a lot of benefit. Getting over really bad events in [...]