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

My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Child. Let it all go. What's making you slow now?

Let it all go.

Welcome back to an old 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 am sometimes still a shit show and proud of it, and if you're 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 Runkel she is the face behind the amazing YouTube channel

Crappy Childhood Fairy, 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 overreaction. 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 lucky us and so for an adult child, when we are experiencing emotional

dysregulation, there's a few things going on here.

So first we have this unresolved trauma that gets triggered.

Part of our reaction may indeed be about the

present circumstance, however the overreaction probably is not. The overreaction is

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