Mad in America
JUNE 22, 2024
W ith all the recent coverage of the youth mental health crisis and the role of social media, little attention has been given to the way platforms like TikTok promote certain narratives about mental health—shifting not only the conversation but also the way mental health issues are actually experienced.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
’ The headline reads: ‘Bury bad thoughts to boost mental health, Cambridge team suggests.’ ’ [However,] experts in trauma-informed and compassion-based therapy models encourage us to do the opposite. There are no easy, quick fixes on a journey of recovery from childhood trauma. Take a bath?
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Mad in America
JUNE 28, 2024
A few months ago, I attended a live Zoom event on Guidely with Dr. Gabor Maté, author of The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture. He was talking about being abandoned for a month at the age of one because his mother was protecting his life during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Is that even possible?
Mad in America
DECEMBER 17, 2023
From CPTSD Foundation : “Trauma is a word or a concept that does not resonate with everyone. Many in the older generations, like my mother’s age (70’s and above), say things like, ‘That was just life…it was what it was,’ and that is the end of the story for them. One way or another, trauma will let us know it’s there.
Mad in America
MARCH 1, 2024
They all have different personalities, ages, abilities, and names: Amy, Tina, Jenny, Sophia, K.A., The concept of voices is the first thing in our common wisdom about mental health distress that I have found to be helpful. They are a sign of mental illness. dissociated) by our mind no matter the nature of said trauma.
Mad in America
APRIL 5, 2024
Such were the challenges of meeting and engaging another new voice that emerged after years of building relationships with my wife’s other dissociated parts—whom I often refer to as girls, because their ages were linked to trauma at different episodes in her childhood. I could write so much more.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2023
His intuitive grasp of how childhood trauma could repress and obliterate memory, fuelling the repetition compulsion of self-destructive patterns of behaviour, was central not only to psychoanalysis, but also our modern understanding of psychological trauma. Portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov, c.
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