Very few providers are qualified to treat people who suffer from Developmental Trauma. Uninformed medical and psychiatric professionals often cause further harm when they’re giving us their best, but it’s not wholly their fault.
The entire power structure of the behavioral health industry–a medical- psychiatric- pharmaceutical complex–pushes out the things that actually help us heal. In exchange we get complex billing codes, unnecessarily poor outcomes, neglect, and even cruelty. There is little to no recourse for accountability or justice, even in cases of outrageously blatant abuse.
If the behavioral health industry could save us we wouldn’t have increasing numbers of people on antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications.
We can’t wait for psychiatry and psycholoty to swoop in and save us. These pseudosciences are inherently pathologizing and dehumanizing. They are also at least 20 years behind neuroscience.
Instead of looking to professionals we need to look to each other. We are inherently capable of helping each other not only recover from trauma but avoid PTSD. We’ve forgotten because the dominant culture has separated us from ourselves and each other so insidiously for so long.
Through the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology/Relational Neuroscience we can relearn, reconnect, help each other and ourselves heal, and prevent PTSD in future generations. We are the healing wave.
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