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Annie Tanasugarn, PhD
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Why We Need To Relabel BPD As What It Really Is

Borderline personality disorder is really a pattern of trauma responses — I have studied Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) for years. Two things that have always affected me are how subpar many treatments are for BPD and how backwards diagnostics are regarding this very confusing — and stigmatized — disorder. BPD affects a person globally in many more ways than “just” their…

Psychology

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Why We Need To Relabel BPD As What It Really Is
Why We Need To Relabel BPD As What It Really Is
Psychology

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5 Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System

How childhood trauma changes our idea of “normal” — Being raised by narcissistic caregivers or growing up in a toxic environment affects us much deeper than we may realize and can affect our mind, emotions, and body more than we may be consciously aware of. Kids who experience constant stress, traumatic events, or chronic abuse develop difficulties in managing…

Psychology

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5 Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System
5 Signs of a Dysregulated Nervous System
Psychology

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Understanding the 4 Trauma Responses in our Romantic Relationship

What to be aware of when it comes to trauma and relationships. — If we have experienced a traumatic event, we can respond to it in one of four common ways: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Of course, there are many variables that influence the intensity, duration, or quantity of a traumatic response including our age, how many traumatic events we’ve experienced, the…

Mental Health

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Understanding the 4 Trauma Responses in our Romantic Relationship
Understanding the 4 Trauma Responses in our Romantic Relationship
Mental Health

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The Reasons People With Complex PTSD Self-Isolate

Learning compassion for those suffering from complex trauma — “Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort.” Bessel van der Kolk Let me start by saying that this may be a trigger warning for some, and I apologize to anyone who may find this emotionally disturbing, but I…

Mental Health

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The Reasons People With Complex PTSD Self-Isolate
The Reasons People With Complex PTSD Self-Isolate
Mental Health

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Dec 25, 2022

How These 3 Unmet Basic Needs Affect Our Relationship Choices

#1 is the most important. — Most of us aren’t overthinking the red flags we see in our partners as reflections of our earliest pain. We’re dismissing the red flags while shaming ourselves for having seen them in the first place. We probably aren’t putting two-and-two together on why we’re in the habit of attracting backstabbing…

Relationships

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How These 3 Unmet Basic Needs Affect Our Relationship Choices
How These 3 Unmet Basic Needs Affect Our Relationship Choices
Relationships

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Dec 17, 2022

3 Traps That Keep Us Stuck In Our Trauma

Unlearning these can help you gain clarity in your healing. — We’ve heard it all before: healing is messy. It’s complicated. It feels counterintuitive to reflect and go within when it’s just “easier” to keep running and avoiding our pain. Yet, while we’re stuck hitting the replay button, we’re also stuck reliving our attachment trauma from one situation to the next…

Mental Health

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3 Traps That Keep Us Stuck In Our Trauma
3 Traps That Keep Us Stuck In Our Trauma
Mental Health

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Nov 15, 2022

4 Common Types of Abusive Parenting That Affect Our Adult Relationships

Unpacking the damage from emotionally immature parents. — The perfect childhood doesn’t exist. Instead, many people experience their childhood along a continuum — with most memories hovering somewhere around the middle, and a few that stir up emotional pain. Then, there are those of us whose childhoods were anything but “normal” or “typical”. We were the silenced kids…

Relationships

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4 Common Types of Abusive Parenting That Affect Our Adult Relationships
4 Common Types of Abusive Parenting That Affect Our Adult Relationships
Relationships

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Nov 6, 2022

The Hard Truths Many Don’t Want To Face When It Comes To “Narcissists”

The reality of trauma re-enactment and how finger-pointing does little to support healing — Trigger Warning: This article is not meant to disrespect anyone who has survived trauma or has been victimized by a “narcissist”. As with all my articles, they are meant to educate, empower, and provide information from a trauma perspective. The fact that trauma can perpetuate and repeat is not a…

Mental Health

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The Hard Truths Many Don’t Want To Face When It Comes To “Narcissists”
The Hard Truths Many Don’t Want To Face When It Comes To “Narcissists”
Mental Health

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Oct 27, 2022

How A Controlling Upbringing Can Affect Us In our Romantic Relationships

Understanding the prolonged effects of early trauma — No one gets out of childhood completely unscathed. Believing we can enter adulthood totally unaffected by our earliest experiences suggests little more than naiveté and toxic positivity. It also minimizes the “little t’s” and “Big T’s” that many of us have experienced throughout the course of our childhood. I’m not…

Mental Health

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How A Controlling Upbringing Can Affect Us In our Romantic Relationships
How A Controlling Upbringing Can Affect Us In our Romantic Relationships
Mental Health

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Published in Invisible Illness

·Oct 24, 2022

Spotting Micro Behaviors Of An Emotionally Unavailable Person

The trick is knowing whether the cause is situational or complex — It’s not hard to spot someone who is emotionally unavailable, especially if you’re in a relationship with them. Sure, more subtle behaviors may initially fly under our radar, but obvious red flags of emotional unavailability are hard to ignore. …

Mental Health

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Spotting Micro Behaviors Of An Emotionally Unavailable Person
Spotting Micro Behaviors Of An Emotionally Unavailable Person
Mental Health

7 min read

Annie Tanasugarn, PhD

Annie Tanasugarn, PhD

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Psychologist. Certified Trauma & Relationship Specialist. https://behaviorthrive.com/

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