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Pete Walker
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Pete Walker's personal blog at pete-walker.com covers health and philosophy. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Pete Walker's site writes about complex PTSD, trauma and its effects. One commenter calls his C-PTSD work useful, and others cite his material in support of their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pete Walker M.A., MFT Therapy for and recovery from childhood trauma, abuse and/or neglect, in the East Bay
What Hacker News says?
I’ve read this thread with familiarity and empathy and want to say: some people here are describing symptoms of PTSD. A traumatic event, however brief, can cause lasting repercussions in our body and mind. If you find yourself listless, ruminating over the event, scared, over-reactive, walking through a fog — and it goes on and you seemingly don’t get better — this is exactly what PTSD feels like. The initial condit…
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on “The year I didn't survive”Submitted Forgiveness: Begins with the Self as a story · 3 points
HN discussionPete Walker echoes what you said: “Renowned traumatologist, John Briere, is said to have quipped that if Complex PTSD were ever given its due – that is, if the role of dysfunctional parenting in adult psychological disorders was ever fully recognized, the DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used by all mental health professionals) would shrink to the size of a thin pamphlet.”. ( http://www…
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on “California study begins screening for MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD”Some here may find Pete Walker and his work around "C-PTSD" useful. https://pete-walker.com/fourFs_TraumaTypologyComplexPTSD.htm
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on “The Effects of Early Relational Trauma (2001) [pdf]”I find it worrying that most comments seem to follow gut feeling and common sense when dealing with psychological issues like that, instead of relying on therapy and research. If inner critic gives you real trouble, the best way, by far, is to start working on such problems with a licensed mental health specialist. Second best way is to catch up on modern research in psychology and psychotherapy. (I'm generalising b…
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on “Telling your inner critic to chill”In modern therapy it is considered[0] that at least some of the inner critic issues are responses to past traumatic events and emotional trauma. It tries to help you avoid doing something that hurt you in the past, like a legacy broken failsafe mechanism. Perfectionism, avoidance and other problems often have very traceable roots in the past, and there are therapy tools like EMDR[1] that help to fix or mitigate the…
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on “Telling your inner critic to chill”