I’ve struggled with mental illness for years and constantly asserted that I’ve never experienced real trauma. I always kind of felt like people overuse the word trauma. I started therapy with someone who specializes in trauma sort of by accident and it has been the most insightful therapy modality that I have ever experienced.
Sometimes it's hard to decide whether you've experienced real trauma. In order to decide, sometimes it's helpful to imagine the same thing that happened to you, happening to someone else you love. I would go through fire to protect my grandchild from what happened to me. I had to realize it was real trauma because I would never allow it to happen again.
@@EvaisgalaxyI did CBT for 2 and a half years and looking back it was almost exclusively unhelpful, made my anxiety and avoidance issues worse, and made me feel worse about myself.
@@brunettemoondoll4JAWThis is exactly what people don’t realize before going into it and there needs to be more awareness of this and a better screening process beforehand. CBT is not for everyone but they give it to anyone and everyone without knowing.
This video is pure gold. The way my mind and my body try to keep me away from it by getting tired suddenly and losing all my ability to focus from one second to another, tells me how Important it is for me to get through this.
My best friend unfortunately has gone through some tremendously horrible trauma and I want them to be able to heal from it. i did EMDR And PET and those helped me the most. I pray that my best friend can get out of living life in survival mode.
Trauma is so insidious and awful. I have C-PTSD and my body reacted horribly to recent events. My body was itching and tingling burning. I couldn't find relief and thought I was going mad. My anxiety and trauma responses have always been extreme and I felt like nobody understood me. It wasn't until I got diagnosed that I understood.
I have ptsd from medical trauma. On the one hand I have extreme anxiety constantly thinking I have some horrible illness. On the other hand, I also am afraid to seek medical care. I end up cycling through panic, and avoiding even necessary medical care. And then feel guilty and stupid for neglecting my health.
I have a ton of trauma in my life and now I understand how it can be dealt with. I actually tried the exposure therapy intuitively since I kept running from my pain and suffering. I accepted that I have to hurt a little to be able to heal and so I got something from my past and really sat with it and all the emotions it was truly cathartic and helped me start to move forward with facing my traumas. Thank you for this video it really helps.
Thank you so much Dr. Mark’s. Your work continues to inspire and uplift me and many others. I’ve been watching you some years now and I am in therapy because of you and thriving. I was no longer afraid to seek help and it’s the best thing I could’ve done for myself. You exude greatness, and teach others to be their greatest selves too. A true Universal Human Being ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dr. Tracey Marks, thank you again for your work and diligence to provide this information and tools to learn how to work and grow out of trauma. I feel very thankful to know English and have found your channel, you have helped me a lot to understand myself and the incest that I lived and many more things, thank you for letting me have the opportunity to understand myself better and with time learn and live with more consciousness and peace. I hope your work reaches all the ones in need like myself 🤗 thank you for everything you do
I highly, highly recommend reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. to anyone struggling to heal their trauma. This book helped me understand the nature of how trauma affects my body and find ways to heal it.
Kendra, look up videos on setting boundaries. Also, if you're talking about romantic relationships, learn to recognize the 'love bombers'... people who move way too fast, start calling you sweetheart, darling, baby, beautiful... within just hours or days. 'Future fakers' are people who make lots of promises about your 'future' together too soon. Just run from them asap because 99% of the time, they are NOT sincere. Learn to say "No." That's a great way to find out who they are. They don't like No. Lastly, work on building up your self-esteem and realizing your WORTH. ❤
Not only was I A victim of crime. But the detective who had my case. Told me I wasn't the only one who was shot. And there was nothing they could do about it and hung the phone up on me.
WOW!! Good Morning Tracy 🤱 this video is powerful. As soon as I started watching it I was helped. You have more wisdom now than you had the last time. I thank God for keeping you strong. Hope that your Family! Is doing well. You keep walking in the strength of God with your focus on him. Thank you for all that you are doing. I'm standing in prayer for you and your Family!. 🏠🤱🙎👭💃
I always write too much so I’ll just be brief, or try to. At this point, due to ptsd (attributed to the pandemic & my situation during, mostly) and all my other treatment-resistant disorders I am now barely functioning. I run out of food for example because the agoraphobia & panic is so intense I can’t handle going anywhere, markets are terrifying now. Used to be a struggle, now it’s all a 24/7 existential nightmare. My apt is no longer a safe space, I’m agitated/terrified of being awake/unable to do normal relaxing things in my own place, so I have nowhere that
Dr. Mark’s your work and excellent. I looked at some of your old video’s. Progress not perfection, and your knowledge and sharing of information is spot on. I hope that your platform grows beyond you wildest imagination.
It feels I have a very resistant trauma and anxiety, but can't get rid of them despite all the years with Emdr and some other therapies. I am doubting modern day science, and it feels like just words. P.s.: I ve been following this channel for a rather long time.
I received my black "Insight is the beginning of change" sweatshirt for this coming fall season... It's mine and I'm thankful to you all... the staff that makes this happen no matter the setbacks. I waited (months, okay) and now I can wear it this coming fall season (starting in 2-3 months). Dr. Marks wittingly validates my experiences and encourages remedies that actually work. See a professional once you understand Dr. Tracey. She's on my frequency (vice/ versa in truth). After listening for a couple of years, I went back to Duloxetine last week. I felt the described physiological and psychological affects this time around. It's a One-Two Punch x 2.5 from past experience and current meds. (It's vague, Dr.Marks, to reach the ones without enough time to hear it all and understand).
I try to not put myself in the position of vulnerability, including going to gas stations at night. I know that things have happened to me. I blacked out things. I know I need to talk to someone. Thank you Dr. Marks….
As a child, I learnt early on to supress my emotions especially crying. I remember feeling a lump in my throat and always supressing the urge. Now was an adult, I find it really hard to cry. I can't shed more than 2 years if I force myself, I end up feeling depleted than better. Also, thanks to the inner child healing job that I'm doing...I can kind of shed more than a few tears now yet just as I began crying ..I start to feel dizzy almost in a panic attack state. It's scary. The heart beat slows down and not a good feeling overall. Should I just stop crying altogether. What do you think?
Reading Pete Walker's books, The Tao of Fully Feeling, and Complex-PTSD is helping me a lot to unblock stunted emotions. I usually never read the same books twice, but I will read these at least twice, maybe more.
Holy cr@p Dr. Marks. I'm just listening to your description of EMDR and how it is applied and I'm getting memories of my traumas by just listening to you. I had to stop the video a few times. I'm starting EMDR in a few weeks and I'm wondering if I'm even going to be able to do this.
Your therapist will not start with the most difficult memories, and will likely not begin that work until safety and stabilisation have been achieved. EMDR is incredibly powerful, and facing trauma is never going to be easy. You're strong and brave already for intending to embark on this journey, remember to be compassionate towards yourself - you are doing this to better yourself, you are brave, you are courageous, and you are strong. Sincerely, a psychologist scrolling through this comment section. :)
Hey there, Doctor! I hope you’re doing well. I know it’s typical of a viewer/commenter to make requests; but I just personally find your content and delivery style to be my favorite, most unbiased, and most reassuring of all the other Psychology/Psychiatry educators on RUclips - or any other platform, for that matter. I just wanted to semi-formally (and as politely as possible) request an educational video on Histrionic Personality Disorder. I’m a masculine-presenting, heterosexual, cisgendered man, and I suspect that I may have this disorder (I only mentioned my sexuality and gender because I’m aware of how Cluster B personality disorders can present differently in men vs. how they present in women, how they present in gender identities, the works.) [I also suspect that I possibly have Bipolar 2 mood disorder as well - though, that’s an entirely different can o’ worms that you’ve already extensively covered in your RUclips content. I still know I’m not supposed to self-diagnose, btw. So I just wanted to reassure you that I’m not taking my suspicions and running with them.] Regardless of my personal situation and views, I was just wondering if you could make a video on HPD when you have the time and desire to do so. If I do actually have this disorder, then I want to know as much about it as possible. I heavily trust you and your level of knowledge, as well as your style of disseminating that knowledge. You actually have loads of clinical experience as a medical professional - not just the ability to regurgitate information from the DSM, word for word. I see you. And I TRUST you. P.S. Thank you for your time in reading this. I love your content! And I thank you every day for being the best pocket-Professor about psychology/psychiatry topics that a wittle ol’ 31-year-old boy like me could ask for. You’re the best! - Alex
Hello doctor, I’m new to your channel and think it’s a great resource. I have bipolar1 and tend to have periods of mania with psychosis, I’ve had quite a number of these episodes and was wondering if episodes of psychosis can cause any brain damage / long lasting mental impairment. Thank you xxx
Please Dr. Marks could you discuss the relationship between low blood pressure and Depression as i heard low blood pressure can be part of the symptoms of depression, thanks.
Dr. Tracey Marks? What if your evolved stress responses are very atypical for PTSD in that: You seem to be anxious/stressed about almost anything, while not having developed as significant trauma related fears? I experienced a major trauma, but because they often talk so differently about how people experienced PTSD compared to me, I fear people will misjudge me if I seek help
But there’s different types of trauma and EMDR isn’t for micro traumas like being raised by a narcissistic mother. If I’m not mistaken through what I have looked into, EMDR won’t work and isn’t good for people who have micro traumas but is more intended for the gas station scene she explained and traumas like that. There’s been horror stories with people doing it who have micro traumas.
Maybe unlucky is a reality that some go through and multiple occasions of being knifed/stabbed requiring surgery and being held up robbed at work by four gunmen and being concussed requiring stitches and then being denied stitches because of still unhealed unremoved stitches and then almost being beat to death while waiting for the bus then busted in the head and requiring more medical care but not able to get a ride to the hospital and THEN , almost bleeding to death internally from a clean and sober motorcycle wreck but enduring severe internal injuries and damage and then broken bones because of weaker systemic problems and Then , septic blood requiring time in ICU and several more surgeries and then , ninety percent blind requiring glaucoma surgery (One good eye now , heh heh heh) and then in January 2020 before anyone here out west knew of COVID , I had a stroke , and now , I find out I've got graves thyroid eye disease and stroke damage to one side of my brain and body are rude and now , the spinal compression fracture from fifty years ago is worsening and I'm fortunate that my mother had a economy pickup when she died recently , and now I'm not on my bicycle and bus for fifty miles to the store and back . Maybe the time i spent healing in prison from the bike wreck was not wasted , because I'm still using the weight bench in my front room to dismiss and avoid the drug problems in the neighborhood and numerous years clean and sober might keep me alive..... some more , maybe i do have some type of trauma issues and need help , maybe , heh heh heh , thanking the government for SSI as i perview options is a curious life . Maybe unlucky at times and lucky at other times , and Mom said to me not long ago before she died that maybe i was actually head injured and stressed . Hey , i spent five years on a morphine sulfate prescription and quit Cold turkey and i haven't busted anyone in the head in a long time , heh heh heh , stay safe and have a nice day .
I'm sending this to my therapist so we can do these together. She's a specialist in EMDR and has been helping me process the unusually strong emotions I've been having. Great video!
I've been beat up by two separate police departments and wrongfully accused of shit I didn't do by another. All this has ruined the last 5 years of my life while my health deteriorates. Counseling hasn't helped. In fact, I was abused by my previous counselor. I would trade what I've been through for being robbed at gun point any day. I don't think counseling helps me, I've gone through at least 10 councilors with minimal help. I'd rather spend 5 hours a day playing my music by myself. No one bothers me, no rules, and no driving required. My music can't traumatize me further unlike driving to a counselor who abused me.
This video is so helpful. I have a friend with cptsd, major depression and panic attacks. She’s had therapy and feels like she’s done. She always says she’s fine and everything is great. But she can’t work and is on disability. Doesn’t go on vacation with her husband because she ‘doesn’t need it’. She Goes to church and prays constantly. I question how well she is really doing
Psilocybin was a key factor in regaining control of my mental health, it eased the anxiety and depression in me, they've been of immense help to my life. I'll refer you to this online specialist
I have early childhood prolonged trauma that resulted in CPTSD (and BPD, 40 years of chronic anxiety, OCD and depression), plus additional periods of prolonged trauma which added to the CPTSD, and I would like to try all 3 of these types of therapies, BUT... Here in Australia, we get 10 x 50 minute therapy sessions per year that are partly subsidised by public health care. 10 sessions would appear not to be enough for any of these therapy modalities, which is really disappointing and frustrating. Do you think CPT can be helpful ONLY doing the homework / self reflection tasks without any guidance from actual therapy, or might that be potentially re-traumatising? 🙏
Can you please do a video about avpd when having a job interview I have practiced all week and got accepted on a phone interview and still didn’t do good on the visual interview if though it was a lot easier in regards to the questions
Hello Dr. Tracey, Love your videos very inspiring, very helpful to me as l was suffering from depression for years, in silence, comming from the old school that l was embarrassed to talk about depression, people might think l was mentally ill. Of course l was! Realizing it's just like a physical illness. Anyhow l take Prozac now a add on of Abilify. Very low does 10mg and 1mg, lam extremely sensitive to antidepressants. BUT! I have thIs very weird feeling in my head as soon as l awake no one understands it, it's a very bad sensation. Was wondering what you think. Just you professional opinion even a quick guess would help. Thanks so much for all you do and say. P.S l have spoken to my phychitrst about this. He said he has no clue??I suffer with this every morning. Have a lovely day! Again Many Thanks. jl
Can EMDR work for trauma caused not caused by a specific event but by growing up in a traumatic environnement ? I've lived a series of traumatic events in my life that need addressing but most of my shortcomings come from my childhood home environment (everyday stress and anxiety, food addiction). I tried talk therapy, hypnosis, I exercise, I meditate, I started stretching and yoga, but nothing seems to help. I've thought of EDMR, but if it's solely event-focused, I'm not sure it'll fix the root of the problem. Thank you!
It might help you. I was diagnosed with C-PTSD and have gone through a lot of trauma, but one of them was religious trauma and the whole fear mongering about hell and stuff. My therapist started the EMDR session by having me imagine myself in a church with the pastor preaching again about that stuff (no specific event, just whatever came to mind). After the session, I started feeling less resentful and scared about religion. There's more for me to do, but it helped with religious trauma noticeably.
BPD, C-PTSD, MDD, Dysthymia, GAD, and ADD. not sure what I can do here, my life feels like a chaotic mess full of emotional reactivity and insecurity, being pushed down by sadness and emptiness. Constant state of slight rerealization. I just can’t keep doing this
Same, I'm very much in a constant state of dissociation and always reacting. I hate being alive, there's no happiness or anything worth living for. I'm just existing until I'm not
So Dr Marks, this is interesting. I am a recovering person with acute addiction issues. Do you think it’s possible to employ trauma response therapy to people who have parasympathetic nervous system reactions (flight or fight) to obtain illicit drugs like methamphetamine and other stimulants?
Psilocybin mushroom and psychedelics generally are very beneficial substances, and it really helps ease anxiety, depression & people with mental health issues, y'all can get them from the handle below.
Ok this is making more sense of why none of this works for me... I don't have the internal stuff going on AND I'm never truly safe... It's not just acute trauma and abuse, it's chronic, so my hypervigilence and PTSD is NOT faulty, rather it's a realistic response to my life experience and current situation - my stuck points are NOT false beliefs, they are realistic examples of reality - and yes, it is OUT of my control ans the safety is NOT there (never has been in my life and never will - 40 years of proof I'm right anf you're wrong is not something ANYONE can talk me out of... lol that's ridiculous to think - to undo 40 years will take 4years of continual proof things have changed... but I've never had years in between - sometimes not even days) . NO this is not faulty thinking... some of us can't get away from the toxic or abusive situation.... PTSD will not go away when outside situations and people continually re-traumatise you and you've NEVER really known a healthy person in your life - I don't think I would trust a healthy person because it would just seem so foreign and fake. Fix the system - get rid of the abusers.
Dr. Marks, I am writing to you because on your video thumb nail there is a grammatical error. The word 'Learning' is misspelled. It reads as ' Learing'. Just FYI. Aloha
No it can be done one on one with a therapist. It's just a modality that therapists can use and people can do on a self-help basis depending on the issue.
Can you make a video comparing narcissistic personality disorder to borderline personality disorder? I used to think my boyfriend had borderline personality disorder... now it seems more like narcissistic personality disorder. I'm just trying to pinpoint which one fits more accurately or is it both?
You are not qualified to diagnose someone with a psychiatric disorder and a youtube video cannot give you the expertise you need to do so. It may be a better use of your time to consider the effects the relationship had on you and work on surpassing any lasting challenges
Hi since recently I've lost the Interest for living.. i have done many favors for a lot of people. Iam 21 from Sri Lanka. I have no gf... i have to look after an old grandmother who is 81 and cranky. My parents yell at me for every single thing. My friends are just using me for my academic performance to take advantage. I have no gf or no real person to tell. Some times i feel like jumping off the balcony and ending it all
Psilocybin mushroom and psychedelics generally are very beneficial substances, and it really helps ease anxiety, depression & people with mental health issues, y'all can get them from the handle below.
It is very unfortunate that you excluded the sensory processing therapies (Peter Levine) and the polyvagal therapies related to 'neuroception' of safety. These are the 'trauma informed' therapies that bring hope and relief to the frozen physical immobilization at the base of hopelessness and self harm. Please do better when you present options for therapies to your viewers. Thanks,
She takes a lot of time out of her personal life to make these videos to educate and help people. A lot of people appreciate this but you do not clearly. This is a bit rude. Maybe think about the things you say and how you say them. If you’re so passionate about these therapies, then make your own videos or find a nicer way to inform people about things.
Nise video. Thanks, DR. But Sometimes- it is TOO LATE for any therapy or all kind of treatment. You become another person completely, suspicious, aggressive, a bit a paranoid, animalistic, impulsive, discouraged, hopeless, despair unmotivated and worthless - and finally, every night, you don't want to wake up in the morning- forever .Just disappear from this world. eventually, there is no cure for it sometimes - only DEATH🌠
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I’ve struggled with mental illness for years and constantly asserted that I’ve never experienced real trauma. I always kind of felt like people overuse the word trauma. I started therapy with someone who specializes in trauma sort of by accident and it has been the most insightful therapy modality that I have ever experienced.
DBT?
I have been suffering from years too unfortunately.
I'm diagnosed BPD.
Sometimes it's hard to decide whether you've experienced real trauma. In order to decide, sometimes it's helpful to imagine the same thing that happened to you, happening to someone else you love. I would go through fire to protect my grandchild from what happened to me. I had to realize it was real trauma because I would never allow it to happen again.
@@EvaisgalaxyI did CBT for 2 and a half years and looking back it was almost exclusively unhelpful, made my anxiety and avoidance issues worse, and made me feel worse about myself.
@@brunettemoondoll4JAW Can we connect on IG?I am in the process of going for a therapy.I need help.
@@brunettemoondoll4JAWThis is exactly what people don’t realize before going into it and there needs to be more awareness of this and a better screening process beforehand. CBT is not for everyone but they give it to anyone and everyone without knowing.
This video is pure gold. The way my mind and my body try to keep me away from it by getting tired suddenly and losing all my ability to focus from one second to another, tells me how Important it is for me to get through this.
I'm a Veteran working with the VA... I am doing EMDR... It works
My best friend unfortunately has gone through some tremendously horrible trauma and I want them to be able to heal from it. i did EMDR And PET and those helped me the most. I pray that my best friend can get out of living life in survival mode.
Trauma is so insidious and awful. I have C-PTSD and my body reacted horribly to recent events. My body was itching and tingling burning. I couldn't find relief and thought I was going mad. My anxiety and trauma responses have always been extreme and I felt like nobody understood me. It wasn't until I got diagnosed that I understood.
I have ptsd from medical trauma. On the one hand I have extreme anxiety constantly thinking I have some horrible illness. On the other hand, I also am afraid to seek medical care. I end up cycling through panic, and avoiding even necessary medical care. And then feel guilty and stupid for neglecting my health.
I have ADHD, life is hard but your videos and my medications help me to cope much better ❤
I think of when some scares you and the feelinv won't go away
I have a ton of trauma in my life and now I understand how it can be dealt with. I actually tried the exposure therapy intuitively since I kept running from my pain and suffering. I accepted that I have to hurt a little to be able to heal and so I got something from my past and really sat with it and all the emotions it was truly cathartic and helped me start to move forward with facing my traumas. Thank you for this video it really helps.
This is an unexpected long and intense video. I need to pause at 8:00 minutes and watch the second half after a break.
Thank you for making this video 💜
Your so welcome. 😊
Thank you so much Dr. Mark’s. Your work continues to inspire and uplift me and many others. I’ve been watching you some years now and I am in therapy because of you and thriving. I was no longer afraid to seek help and it’s the best thing I could’ve done for myself. You exude greatness, and teach others to be their greatest selves too. A true Universal Human Being ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As someone who has tried many therapies, the one therapy i would never ever recommend is exposure therapy. It only made it worse.
Great information!
Thanks a lot! 😊
Dr. Marks really explains this concept of trauma well.
Dr. Tracey Marks, thank you again for your work and diligence to provide this information and tools to learn how to work and grow out of trauma. I feel very thankful to know English and have found your channel, you have helped me a lot to understand myself and the incest that I lived and many more things, thank you for letting me have the opportunity to understand myself better and with time learn and live with more consciousness and peace. I hope your work reaches all the ones in need like myself 🤗 thank you for everything you do
I highly, highly recommend reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. to anyone struggling to heal their trauma. This book helped me understand the nature of how trauma affects my body and find ways to heal it.
Can you do some videos on not allowing people to use you or walk on you in relationship due to past childhood abuse and trauma
Kendra, look up videos on setting boundaries. Also, if you're talking about romantic relationships, learn to recognize the 'love bombers'... people who move way too fast, start calling you sweetheart, darling, baby, beautiful... within just hours or days. 'Future fakers' are people who make lots of promises about your 'future' together too soon. Just run from them asap because 99% of the time, they are NOT sincere. Learn to say "No." That's a great way to find out who they are. They don't like No. Lastly, work on building up your self-esteem and realizing your WORTH. ❤
Thank you for this video. I'm starting therapy again and this has helped me in my research for which therapy to use to treat my childhood trauma.
Not only was I A victim of crime. But the detective who had my case. Told me I wasn't the only one who was shot. And there was nothing they could do about it and hung the phone up on me.
Thank you for the insight into the different types of therapy.
Thank you doctor Tracey Marks
WOW!! Good Morning Tracy 🤱 this video is powerful. As soon as I started watching it I was helped. You have more wisdom now than you had the last time. I thank God for keeping you strong. Hope that your Family! Is doing well. You keep walking in the strength of God with your focus on him. Thank you for all that you are doing. I'm standing in prayer for you and your Family!. 🏠🤱🙎👭💃
I always write too much so I’ll just be brief, or try to. At this point, due to ptsd (attributed to the pandemic & my situation during, mostly) and all my other treatment-resistant disorders I am now barely functioning. I run out of food for example because the agoraphobia & panic is so intense I can’t handle going anywhere, markets are terrifying now. Used to be a struggle, now it’s all a 24/7 existential nightmare. My apt is no longer a safe space, I’m agitated/terrified of being awake/unable to do normal relaxing things in my own place, so I have nowhere that
l m so messed up, l can't concentrate on anything; but seeing your wonderful compassionate eyes always give me a boost
Thank you for adding insight to this you are consistently my go-to and your approach to education is truly amazing.
I love love how you explain things!!!! Keep up the good work!
Absolutely amazing video Dr. Marks 💯
Dr. Mark’s your work and excellent. I looked at some of your old video’s. Progress not perfection, and your knowledge and sharing of information is spot on. I hope that your platform grows beyond you wildest imagination.
Thanks so much Reggie! You’re so right about pursuing progress. I appreciate the reminder ❤️😊
@@DrTraceyMarksTHANK YOU❤
@@DrTraceyMarksHi Dr.Tracey You are a good Therapist I was wondering can You help Me and My Family Please
Really appreciate your videos.
Thank you so much for your fantastic info
Now there’s a true example of trauma and its after effects / thank you for this 😊
You’re so welcome 😉
Thank you for this video!! I think I could benefit from these techniques to FINALLY work through my trauma.
Thanks for your amazing videos! Always eager to watch your videos! አመሰግናለሁ🇪🇹
You’re welcome! I’m happy to have you here 👍🏽
It feels I have a very resistant trauma and anxiety, but can't get rid of them despite all the years with Emdr and some other therapies. I am doubting modern day science, and it feels like just words.
P.s.: I ve been following this channel for a rather long time.
That's because EMDR isn't a science-based therapy. It's pseudoscience.
I received my black "Insight is the beginning of change" sweatshirt for this coming fall season... It's mine and I'm thankful to you all... the staff that makes this happen no matter the setbacks. I waited (months, okay) and now I can wear it this coming fall season (starting in 2-3 months). Dr. Marks wittingly validates my experiences and encourages remedies that actually work. See a professional once you understand Dr. Tracey. She's on my frequency (vice/ versa in truth). After listening for a couple of years, I went back to Duloxetine last week. I felt the described physiological and psychological affects this time around. It's a One-Two Punch x 2.5 from past experience and current meds. (It's vague, Dr.Marks, to reach the ones without enough time to hear it all and understand).
Thank you for this timely video! Do you happen to have one about Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) or is it the same as PET?
Thank you!
Thanks for doing this.
Thanks Dr. Marks 😊😊
You’re welcome. Thanks for commenting and saying hello 👍🏽
Some people are blessed to only relate to some of these examples.
I have done EMDR it really works!
I try to not put myself in the position of vulnerability, including going to gas stations at night. I know that things have happened to me. I blacked out things. I know I need to talk to someone. Thank you Dr. Marks….
As a child, I learnt early on to supress my emotions especially crying. I remember feeling a lump in my throat and always supressing the urge. Now was an adult, I find it really hard to cry. I can't shed more than 2 years if I force myself, I end up feeling depleted than better. Also, thanks to the inner child healing job that I'm doing...I can kind of shed more than a few tears now yet just as I began crying ..I start to feel dizzy almost in a panic attack state. It's scary. The heart beat slows down and not a good feeling overall. Should I just stop crying altogether. What do you think?
Reading Pete Walker's books, The Tao of Fully Feeling, and Complex-PTSD is helping me a lot to unblock stunted emotions. I usually never read the same books twice, but I will read these at least twice, maybe more.
Lay in the bed and cry. You need to release that. Our bodies were designed to do that to release stress!
Holy cr@p Dr. Marks. I'm just listening to your description of EMDR and how it is applied and I'm getting memories of my traumas by just listening to you. I had to stop the video a few times. I'm starting EMDR in a few weeks and I'm wondering if I'm even going to be able to do this.
Your therapist will not start with the most difficult memories, and will likely not begin that work until safety and stabilisation have been achieved. EMDR is incredibly powerful, and facing trauma is never going to be easy. You're strong and brave already for intending to embark on this journey, remember to be compassionate towards yourself - you are doing this to better yourself, you are brave, you are courageous, and you are strong.
Sincerely, a psychologist scrolling through this comment section. :)
@@gSWG3R Thank you so much 💓
Hey there, Doctor! I hope you’re doing well. I know it’s typical of a viewer/commenter to make requests; but I just personally find your content and delivery style to be my favorite, most unbiased, and most reassuring of all the other Psychology/Psychiatry educators on RUclips - or any other platform, for that matter.
I just wanted to semi-formally (and as politely as possible) request an educational video on Histrionic Personality Disorder. I’m a masculine-presenting, heterosexual, cisgendered man, and I suspect that I may have this disorder (I only mentioned my sexuality and gender because I’m aware of how Cluster B personality disorders can present differently in men vs. how they present in women, how they present in gender identities, the works.)
[I also suspect that I possibly have Bipolar 2 mood disorder as well - though, that’s an entirely different can o’ worms that you’ve already extensively covered in your RUclips content. I still know I’m not supposed to self-diagnose, btw. So I just wanted to reassure you that I’m not taking my suspicions and running with them.]
Regardless of my personal situation and views, I was just wondering if you could make a video on HPD when you have the time and desire to do so. If I do actually have this disorder, then I want to know as much about it as possible. I heavily trust you and your level of knowledge, as well as your style of disseminating that knowledge. You actually have loads of clinical experience as a medical professional - not just the ability to regurgitate information from the DSM, word for word. I see you. And I TRUST you.
P.S. Thank you for your time in reading this. I love your content! And I thank you every day for being the best pocket-Professor about psychology/psychiatry topics that a wittle ol’ 31-year-old boy like me could ask for. You’re the best!
- Alex
New subscriber, i can learn alot from your videos, thank you!
The three therapies you listed here are not the only ones used to treat trauma. TF-CBT is also used. Along with a few others.
Hello doctor, I’m new to your channel and think it’s a great resource. I have bipolar1 and tend to have periods of mania with psychosis, I’ve had quite a number of these episodes and was wondering if episodes of psychosis can cause any brain damage / long lasting mental impairment.
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Please Dr. Marks could you discuss the relationship between low blood pressure and Depression as i heard low blood pressure can be part of the symptoms of depression, thanks.
This is one of your best videos (except for this freaky eyeball graphics, haha!). Thanks so much.
Dr. Tracey Marks? What if your evolved stress responses are very atypical for PTSD in that: You seem to be anxious/stressed about almost anything, while not having developed as significant trauma related fears?
I experienced a major trauma, but because they often talk so differently about how people experienced PTSD compared to me, I fear people will misjudge me if I seek help
Dr. Tracy, Can you please do a video on counterfactual thoughts?
Heavy video
Thank u
But there’s different types of trauma and EMDR isn’t for micro traumas like being raised by a narcissistic mother. If I’m not mistaken through what I have looked into, EMDR won’t work and isn’t good for people who have micro traumas but is more intended for the gas station scene she explained and traumas like that. There’s been horror stories with people doing it who have micro traumas.
Maybe unlucky is a reality that some go through and multiple occasions of being knifed/stabbed requiring surgery and being held up robbed at work by four gunmen and being concussed requiring stitches and then being denied stitches because of still unhealed unremoved stitches and then almost being beat to death while waiting for the bus then busted in the head and requiring more medical care but not able to get a ride to the hospital and THEN , almost bleeding to death internally from a clean and sober motorcycle wreck but enduring severe internal injuries and damage and then broken bones because of weaker systemic problems and Then , septic blood requiring time in ICU and several more surgeries and then , ninety percent blind requiring glaucoma surgery (One good eye now , heh heh heh) and then in January 2020 before anyone here out west knew of COVID , I had a stroke , and now , I find out I've got graves thyroid eye disease and stroke damage to one side of my brain and body are rude and now , the spinal compression fracture from fifty years ago is worsening and I'm fortunate that my mother had a economy pickup when she died recently , and now I'm not on my bicycle and bus for fifty miles to the store and back . Maybe the time i spent healing in prison from the bike wreck was not wasted , because I'm still using the weight bench in my front room to dismiss and avoid the drug problems in the neighborhood and numerous years clean and sober might keep me alive..... some more , maybe i do have some type of trauma issues and need help , maybe , heh heh heh , thanking the government for SSI as i perview options is a curious life . Maybe unlucky at times and lucky at other times , and Mom said to me not long ago before she died that maybe i was actually head injured and stressed . Hey , i spent five years on a morphine sulfate prescription and quit Cold turkey and i haven't busted anyone in the head in a long time , heh heh heh , stay safe and have a nice day .
I'm sending this to my therapist so we can do these together. She's a specialist in EMDR and has been helping me process the unusually strong emotions I've been having. Great video!
I've been beat up by two separate police departments and wrongfully accused of shit I didn't do by another. All this has ruined the last 5 years of my life while my health deteriorates. Counseling hasn't helped. In fact, I was abused by my previous counselor. I would trade what I've been through for being robbed at gun point any day. I don't think counseling helps me, I've gone through at least 10 councilors with minimal help. I'd rather spend 5 hours a day playing my music by myself. No one bothers me, no rules, and no driving required. My music can't traumatize me further unlike driving to a counselor who abused me.
Brillant!!!!!
This video is so helpful. I have a friend with cptsd, major depression and panic attacks. She’s had therapy and feels like she’s done. She always says she’s fine and everything is great. But she can’t work and is on disability. Doesn’t go on vacation with her husband because she ‘doesn’t need it’. She Goes to church and prays constantly. I question how well she is really doing
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I have early childhood prolonged trauma that resulted in CPTSD (and BPD, 40 years of chronic anxiety, OCD and depression), plus additional periods of prolonged trauma which added to the CPTSD, and I would like to try all 3 of these types of therapies, BUT...
Here in Australia, we get 10 x 50 minute therapy sessions per year that are partly subsidised by public health care. 10 sessions would appear not to be enough for any of these therapy modalities, which is really disappointing and frustrating.
Do you think CPT can be helpful ONLY doing the homework / self reflection tasks without any guidance from actual therapy, or might that be potentially re-traumatising? 🙏
Can you please do a video about avpd when having a job interview
I have practiced all week and got accepted on a phone interview and still didn’t do good on the visual interview if though it was a lot easier in regards to the questions
😂😂😂 I am at the VA right now for an appointment!!! I have tried all of them and they were all effective!
Hello Dr. Tracey,
Love your videos very inspiring, very helpful to me as l was suffering from depression for years, in silence, comming from the old school that l was embarrassed to talk about depression, people might think l was mentally ill. Of course l was! Realizing it's just like a physical illness. Anyhow l take Prozac now a add on of Abilify. Very low does 10mg and 1mg, lam extremely sensitive to antidepressants. BUT! I have thIs very weird feeling in my head as soon as l awake no one understands it, it's a very bad sensation. Was wondering what you think. Just you professional opinion even a quick guess would help. Thanks so much for all you do and say. P.S l have spoken to my phychitrst about this. He said he has no clue??I suffer with this every morning. Have a lovely day! Again Many Thanks. jl
Can EMDR work for trauma caused not caused by a specific event but by growing up in a traumatic environnement ? I've lived a series of traumatic events in my life that need addressing but most of my shortcomings come from my childhood home environment (everyday stress and anxiety, food addiction). I tried talk therapy, hypnosis, I exercise, I meditate, I started stretching and yoga, but nothing seems to help. I've thought of EDMR, but if it's solely event-focused, I'm not sure it'll fix the root of the problem. Thank you!
It might help you. I was diagnosed with C-PTSD and have gone through a lot of trauma, but one of them was religious trauma and the whole fear mongering about hell and stuff. My therapist started the EMDR session by having me imagine myself in a church with the pastor preaching again about that stuff (no specific event, just whatever came to mind). After the session, I started feeling less resentful and scared about religion. There's more for me to do, but it helped with religious trauma noticeably.
@@iPLAYtheSTATION Thank you so much ! Glad it helped you 😊
Do more research before making that decision to get it. From what I have found EMDR is not for our types of trauma which is considered micro traumas.
@@kino7539 I'll look into it, thank you!
BPD, C-PTSD, MDD, Dysthymia, GAD, and ADD. not sure what I can do here, my life feels like a chaotic mess full of emotional reactivity and insecurity, being pushed down by sadness and emptiness. Constant state of slight rerealization. I just can’t keep doing this
Same, I'm very much in a constant state of dissociation and always reacting. I hate being alive, there's no happiness or anything worth living for. I'm just existing until I'm not
Congratulations
What about internal family systems?
Question what if there are multiple traumas and besides overlapping they tend to feed the next as the other before it was fed.
do wish there were chapters marked so I could skip ahead. the scenario was way too uncomfortable I had to stop midway through...
I developed SAD at age 12 but think it was because of the trauma I got at age 4.
Ayahuasca worked for me 😊
starting EMDR really soon, i'm curious as heck. hypnotherapy sounds so floaty but there's real concrete evidence not based on placebo
Why aren't other trauma modalities considered trestment for trauma? Things like IFS, somatic experiencing, etc.
So Dr Marks, this is interesting. I am a recovering person with acute addiction issues. Do you think it’s possible to employ trauma response therapy to people who have parasympathetic nervous system reactions (flight or fight) to obtain illicit drugs like methamphetamine and other stimulants?
Psilocybin mushroom and psychedelics generally are very beneficial substances, and it really helps ease anxiety, depression & people with mental health issues, y'all can get them from the handle below.
Ok this is making more sense of why none of this works for me... I don't have the internal stuff going on AND I'm never truly safe... It's not just acute trauma and abuse, it's chronic, so my hypervigilence and PTSD is NOT faulty, rather it's a realistic response to my life experience and current situation - my stuck points are NOT false beliefs, they are realistic examples of reality - and yes, it is OUT of my control ans the safety is NOT there (never has been in my life and never will - 40 years of proof I'm right anf you're wrong is not something ANYONE can talk me out of... lol that's ridiculous to think - to undo 40 years will take 4years of continual proof things have changed... but I've never had years in between - sometimes not even days) . NO this is not faulty thinking... some of us can't get away from the toxic or abusive situation.... PTSD will not go away when outside situations and people continually re-traumatise you and you've NEVER really known a healthy person in your life - I don't think I would trust a healthy person because it would just seem so foreign and fake. Fix the system - get rid of the abusers.
Hello Dr. Marks, do you have a video on nightmares?
Also, I do EMDR and DBT
Thank you! I will research for NC. After each sessions im sure i will need to hug a dog but i dont have a dog 😔
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Dr. Marks, I am writing to you because on your video thumb nail there is a grammatical error. The word 'Learning' is misspelled. It reads as ' Learing'. Just FYI. Aloha
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Mam I need your help please reply
Can you just do this by yourself? By purposely exposing yourself to those situations and tolerating them, until they become positive?
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What about IFS?
Hi, would you credit the artists whose animations you use? Do you pay them for it?
She hires a company.
Doesn’t CPT have to be practiced in a group therapy??? Or an individual therapist????
No it can be done one on one with a therapist. It's just a modality that therapists can use and people can do on a self-help basis depending on the issue.
How about neglect? Is this trauma?
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Can you make a video comparing narcissistic personality disorder to borderline personality disorder?
I used to think my boyfriend had borderline personality disorder... now it seems more like narcissistic personality disorder.
I'm just trying to pinpoint which one fits more accurately or is it both?
You are not qualified to diagnose someone with a psychiatric disorder and a youtube video cannot give you the expertise you need to do so. It may be a better use of your time to consider the effects the relationship had on you and work on surpassing any lasting challenges
I have a lot of stuck points...
I wonder if you can do a video on fibromyalgia and how it’s related to depression, stress and pain suppression
Hi since recently I've lost the Interest for living.. i have done many favors for a lot of people. Iam 21 from Sri Lanka. I have no gf... i have to look after an old grandmother who is 81 and cranky. My parents yell at me for every single thing. My friends are just using me for my academic performance to take advantage. I have no gf or no real person to tell. Some times i feel like jumping off the balcony and ending it all
Psilocybin mushroom and psychedelics generally are very beneficial substances, and it really helps ease anxiety, depression & people with mental health issues, y'all can get them from the handle below.
It is very unfortunate that you excluded the sensory processing therapies (Peter Levine) and the polyvagal therapies related to 'neuroception' of safety. These are the 'trauma informed' therapies that bring hope and relief to the frozen physical immobilization at the base of hopelessness and self harm. Please do better when you present options for therapies to your viewers. Thanks,
Please, don't be so condescending. Thank you.
She takes a lot of time out of her personal life to make these videos to educate and help people. A lot of people appreciate this but you do not clearly. This is a bit rude. Maybe think about the things you say and how you say them. If you’re so passionate about these therapies, then make your own videos or find a nicer way to inform people about things.
Nise video. Thanks, DR. But Sometimes- it is TOO LATE for any therapy or all kind of treatment.
You become another person completely,
suspicious, aggressive, a bit a paranoid, animalistic, impulsive, discouraged, hopeless, despair unmotivated and worthless - and finally, every night, you don't want to wake up in the morning- forever .Just disappear from this world.
eventually, there is no cure for it sometimes - only DEATH🌠
Your thumbnail has a typo. It says "learing to navigate trauma".
Soo if you have multiple traumas, sounds like you would benefit from all 3
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Jesus! The story at the front of the video was harrowing in it's own right.
If I didn't have PTSD before, I might have it after that.