Two Firewalls, One Relationship: Healing While the Threat Continues
Most trauma recovery models assume the threat has ended: you heal after the harmful relationship is behind you. But what if one relationship has to continue — a parent, a co-parent, a colleague — potentially for years? This episode explores what one writer calls the "dual-firewall problem": running strict information control with one person while staying open and vulnerable with everyone else. Both firewalls are correct. Neither can be run by the same settings. We dig into the ICD-11's framing of interpersonal disturbance as a core CPTSD feature, a grounded-theory study on how group…
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