Brooke Mueller told PEOPLE that she and Denise Richards, both of whom were married to Charlie Sheen in the past, have a ...

A trauma bond can significantly damage one’s mental, emotional, and physical health. Cycles of intermittent positive and negative reinforcement make it extremely hard to walk away from these ...

A trauma bond is a deep attachment that might people suffer because of a continuous cycle of physical or emotional abuse. Trauma bonds often are a part of romantic relationships and many people ...

A trauma bond is an attachment to an abuser in a relationship with a cyclical pattern of abuse. Patrick Carnes, Ph.D., coined ...

Dismissing trauma bonding as just the latest term in the pseudo-psychology zeitgeist is a mistake. If you’ve read the thinkpieces, you’ll know that many believe the way we talk about our ...

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Denise and I were fast friends and we kind of have a trauma bond, if you will,” she admits. “We're almost like sisters, so there is sometimes some internal fighting. It's not always rosy." ...

Why can it take us so long to leave the narcissist in our lives? A trauma bond could be part of the reason, according to psychotherapist Kathleen Saxton. Here, she explains how to break the toxic ...