A crappy childhood does not have to be a life sentence to a crappy life.

My name is Andrea and this is Adult Child.

Welcome back to Adult Child where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in

a dysfunctional family.

For any new listeners, I'm Andrea, I'm a former shit show, I'm sometimes still a shit

show and proud of it and if you're a shit show, you're going to fit in perfectly around

here.

Today, we are diving deep with Anna Runkle, she is the face behind the amazing YouTube

channel, crappy childhood theory, which is focused on complex PTSD.

So Anna is going to share with us about her crappy childhood, how this manifested in

adulthood, her realization that she was suffering from complex PTSD and about a recovery

tool that she has developed to deal with emotional dysregulation.

Now we have touched upon emotional dysregulation throughout the pod.

This is one of the hallmark symptoms of complex PTSD.

This is one of the hallmark symptoms of the adult child trauma syndrome.

So this is what Tian is talking about when she says that ACAs go from 0 to 10 and 10

to 0 with no speed bumps in between.

So basically emotional dysregulation is emotional over reaction, a person's inability to control

or regulate their emotional reactions to provocative stimuli, i.e. when a guy doesn't

text you back after 20 minutes.

So there are many causes of emotional dysregulation, but the primary cause is childhood trauma and

neglect, leaky-s.

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