Bits and Pieces — Refracting Hope

The Optus cyberattack through the lens of PTSD: blow by blow

With PTSD, navigating the Optus cyberattack was particularly challenging.

What would you do if your abuser asked for your help?

Hope Gordon17 September 2022

Untouchable

Hope Gordon20 February 2022Hope Gordon, neglect, emotional abuse, abuse and ptsd, abuse and postraumatic stress disorder, neglect and ptsd, attachment ptsd, attachment abuse, covid ptsd, covid post traumatic stress, covid abuse, social distancing ptsd, touch ptsd, touch abuse, touch post traumatic stress, mother ptsd

Christmas is cancelled: A memory

Covid-19’s ‘cancelled’ 2020 Christmas reminded me of the year my mother cancelled Christmas.

Hope Gordon26 October 2021covid christmas, christmas trauma, christmas cancelled, christmas memories, hope gordon

Psychiatrist number XI

Hope Gordon5 June 2021ptsd psychiatrist, fear of doctors, suspicion of doctors, ptsd fear psychiatrist, ptsd therapy, post traumatic stress disorder therapy, hope gordon

Papa Centrelink: Navigating the Australian welfare system

Hope Gordon25 April 2021Australian welfare, social services, disability support, hope gordon, PTSD welfare, australian social services, welfare payment

Bits of joy

Three of the things which kept me strong as I grew up.

Hope Gordon24 August 2020bits of joy, music therapy, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, coping mechanisms, PTSD coping, hope gordon

The rebel without a cause

One day YOU could be my cause.

Hope Gordon10 July 2020stand for justice, speak out, rebel for good, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, hope gordon

Living on an edge no one would want to

Living with mental illness is hard.

Hope Gordon10 July 2020mental illness public perception, mentally ill self perception, hope gordon, living with mental illness

A virus of filth. Living side by side with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: A reflection

Living with someone with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder in a house full of abuse.

Hope Gordon19 June 2020OCD, obsessive compulsive disorder, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, sexual abuse, trauma and OCD, PTSD and OCD, hope gordon, living with OCD

Jesus, two girls and Wolf

A little girl who dissociates and has an encounter with Jesus and a wolf

Hope Gordon19 June 2020Jesus, child abuse, childhood trauma, dissociation and abuse, coping with abuse, hope gordon, wolf, inner wolf

Hope is blue

What colour is hope?

Hope Gordon19 May 2020hope and miracles, colour of hope, hope gordon, power of relationship, childhood trauma, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD and death

Fear and Suspicion

Psychiatrists do not like externalized emotions when they are fear and suspicion.

Hope Gordon19 March 2020fear and suspicion, PTSD therapy, post traumatic stress disorder, hope gordon

Locating grief

Getting in touch with painful emotions isn’t easy. It’s very, very complicated.

Hope Gordon19 March 2020grief therapy, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD and grief, childhood trauma and grief, hope gordon, confronting the past

What matters

People with mental illness have great inner strength. So do ants.

Hope Gordon18 March 2020mental illness strength, PTSD strength, post traumatic stress disorder strength, childhood trauma strength, hope gordon, resilience

Cosmic saltshaker

It is the tiniest things which make life seem better. Mental illness provides unique perspectives on the world.

Hope Gordon18 March 2020mental illness strength, mental illness coping, hope gordon, mental illness perspective

Loss of hope

This is what it feels like to have no direction in life.

Hope Gordon18 March 2020mental illness grief, loss of hope, hopeless case, hope gordon, childhood trauma, PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder

Please listen

Hope Gordon18 March 2020hope gordon