Trauma – PTSD

Question:

Hi Ursobear.  I went over an looked at your site an sent some of the links to a frend. I thot this was an excellent site an salute you on your efforts to help males find healing as well as women.  IMO this is critically needed. Please kno I support you in this. Anita

Response:

Hey, folks. A while back someone asked in a posting on another board if there were any books on lasting effects of sexual abuse. That made me think about the fact that I have accumulated a fair number of articles, diagnostic tools, links to resources, etc., which are relevant to survivors of sexual abuse, as well as to mental health consumers in general. So I decided to put up a small Web site so that others could have access to what I have, and to what I may come across in the future.  I have also tried to add items having to do with sexual abuse for males since the vast majority of what is available is for females.  While it’s terrific that these resources exist for females, the scarcity of resources for males can be terribly frustrating.  However, the large majority of what my site easily applies to males and females both. At any rate, I hope some of you may find it helpful.  I will repost this notice periodically so that new people or people who may have missed it may have the chance to see it.  If you come across any problems (links that don’t work, etc.), please let me know.  The URL for the site and my email address are:      Web site: www.zzapp.org/micksnyd/ursobear/trauma.html BRIEF OVERVIEW On this Web site I’ve put together, there are articles for the professional and the layperson, diagnostic tools used by mental health professionals to assess the extent of traumatic stress and / or dissociation, and links to resources, etc., which are relevant to survivors of sexual abuse, as well as to mental health consumers in general.  There’s also a link to a site with a directory of patient assistance programs for prescription drugs for all (or nearly all) of the major pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. Articles include topics such as dissociation, which is related to PTSD but is more severe.  For example:      1. "Dissociation" (Excerpted from Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia)      2. "Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple PersonalityDisorder)" From the physician’s manual known as the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy      3. "The Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders: An Overview of Diagnosis and Treatment" by Joan A. Turkus, M.D., a recognized expert in the field. Also, from the Sidran Traumatic Stress Foundation:      1. The Effects on Children of Parents Who Are Trauma Survivors With Dissociative Disorders      2. A Glossary of Terms Relating to Dissociative Disorders (HTML and MS Word format)      3. Retraumatizing the Victim      4. The Sidran Foundation’s Advisory Statement on PTSD to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration      5. What Are Traumatic Memories?      6. What Is Dissociative Identity Disorder?      7. What Is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?      8. What Is Psychological Trauma?      1. Long-term effects of sexual abuse      2. Statistics on child-abuse      3. How memories of sexual abuse can sometimes be "forgotten" only to be recovered later in life, sometimes many years later (and also how some researchers dispute this)      4. How sexual abuse can affect boys differently from girls (both near-term and later in life)      5. Links to other sites with lots of additional good information (some of which were the places where I found these articles for myself in the first place).      6. Basic information on anxiety disorders and sexual addiction      7. Resources for people in Canada and the U.K. Hope you find it helpful! UrsoBear ===== Web site: www.zzapp.org/micksnyd/ursobear/trauma.html

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