Day 2 @actiontrauma #VTS2020 & Bessel Van Der Kolk says back in 1994 they voted for #complexposttraumaticstress to be included in DSM. One thinks back to the history of #hysteria & prevalence today of #BPD diagnosis. Ppl are dying. Wrong diagnoses, lack of appropriate treatments!

Excellent explanation @actiontrauma #VTS2020 by Bessel Van Der Kolk that when we experience #empathy we feel with the other. #Compassion allows us to separate & realise this is not happening to us which allows us not to get overwhelmed, burnt out @AnnButlMHRec @greenrooms101

Devasting slides of the brain of those with #developmentaltrauma in thinking about self/others compared to those without. So validating to hear @SebernF share with dismay a patient who identified herself as ‘borderline’. How many of us become our diagnoses? @actiontrauma #VTS2020