by Kathryn Berg | Feb 16, 2021 | Aurum, Ignatia, PTSD, PTSD Grief, PTSD in TV & Movies, PTSD Memory, Uncategorized
This is the first in a series of occasional blog posts about PTSD and TV and Movies. I hope you will find some help or some encouragement from these posts. You don’t just have to watch movies with military settings to see PTSD included in the story line. Lately PTSD...
by Kathryn Berg | Aug 14, 2020 | CPTSD, PTSD, Veterans with PTSD
You can listen to this or read this while watching. But either way, Homeopathy is a natural cure that can help you recover from PTSD or CPTSD! If you are interested in getting started improving your life and recovering from PTSD or CPTSD, click the...
by Kathryn Berg | Aug 6, 2020 | CPTSD, PTSD, PTSD & Exhaustion, PTSD and Fatigue
One of the symptoms that often accompanies PTSD is exhaustion. Sometimes people will say they are fatigued, weary, battle scarred. Think about it for a minute. If you are feeling like trauma is impinging on your life on a regular basis, no doubt you would be...
by Kathryn Berg | May 7, 2020 | Co-Vid 19, Corona Virus, PTSD, PTSD and CoVid 19
CoVid-19 has taken over. It seems no one is immune to its consequences, even if we don’t actually develop symptoms from the novel corona virus and develop CoVid-19, as the resulting disease has been named. PTSD has a direct relationship to CoVid-19. The first...
by Kathryn Berg | Nov 12, 2019 | PTSD, Veterans with PTSD
This was written with the intention of posting on Veteran’s Day. Unfortunately, I was having technical difficulties, so it didn’t get published. Mercury is in retrograde…. Today is Veteran’s Day, 2019. You may have noticed a number of ways...
by Kathryn Berg | Oct 22, 2019 | agoraphobia, CPTSD, PTSD, Uncategorized
Does the idea of going to the mall cause you to shake and break out in sweat? Does riding the train or an airplane cause panic? These are all signs of Agoraphobia, which is a major symptom in PTSD. According to the Mayo Clinic, Agoraphobia is “…a type of anxiety...
by Kathryn Berg | Aug 21, 2019 | CPTSD, Depression, PTSD
When someone hurts us, whether it is an insult hurled at us or someone cheats in their marriage, or a parent tells you that you are worthless, the first thing our brain does is make up a story about it. “They don’t respect me,” which can morph into “I am...
by Kathryn Berg | Jul 26, 2019 | Constitutional Homeopathy, CPTSD, PTSD, Snakes
I remember the first time I encountered someone who today would likely have a diagnosis of PTSD. She was an older woman I met on a volunteer trip in the late 1980’s. She commented about how difficult it was to sleep because she had a “built-in Sentinel.” Something...
by Kathryn Berg | Jul 16, 2019 | CPTSD, First Responders with PTSD, PTSD, Veterans with PTSD
When practitioners choose a type of specialty, there is often a personal reason that they have chosen it. Perhaps a family member really struggled with a particular pathology, or the may have even passed because of it. The practitioner may have also had an experience...
by Kathryn Berg | Jul 9, 2019 | CPTSD, PTSD, Recovery
It is really common to hear people talk about their illnesses, whether it is PTSD or something else. It seems to be the topic du jour almost any place you go. It often goes something like this: I can’t do anything about it. My doctor says there is no cure, so I just...
by Kathryn Berg | Jun 28, 2019 | Aconite, Arnica, Climate Change, Ignatia, PTSD
Climate Change is real. It is upon us. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of dire predictions of what this could mean to the human race and other life on earth. Flooding, land loss, drought, fire, long winters, cool summers, warm winters, hot summers. It just...
by Kathryn Berg | Jun 26, 2019 | Drug Side Effects, Homeopathic Detox, PTSD
Why do so many wartime vets (especially those from the Gulf War) with PTSD also have peripheral Neuropathy? Cipro may be the culprit. According to an article published in Military Times in 2013, there are many vets who were told to take Cipro for 60-90 days to prevent...
by Kathryn Berg | Jun 19, 2019 | PTSD
SInce my last post on Ketamine for PTSD, some more information has come out. It is important to share it. It seems that the outcomes of three studies on the safety and effectiveness of Ketamine for PTSD are questionable. Two of the three studies did not show...
by Kathryn Berg | Jun 19, 2019 | CPTSD, Nightmares, PTSD
Anyone who has seen a homeopath gets asked about their dreams. No matter what your reason is for seeking care from a homeopath, your dreams can be used to help determine a remedy to heal what ails you. Dreams have a particular role in helping someone heal from PTSD...
by Kathryn Berg | Jun 11, 2019 | CPTSD, PTSD
There is a saying in the world of therapy that “insight is the booby prize of therapy.” This means, of course, that now that you have insight, what are you going to do about it. Sometimes it just makes you angry! Or sad. Well, Insight is the prize of...