Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Other influential figures like Patricia Resick and Charles Marmar emphasized the importance of addressing both objective events and the subjective experience of trauma. The Cult of Trauma This proliferation has given rise to what’s often called a cult of trauma , where sharing personal stories of suffering is glorified and sensationalized.

Resilience and coping 141

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Nutrition and mood Sleep and mental health 141

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.

Self-awareness 135

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 135

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Childhood trauma and further adverse events in adulthood such as bullying, social discrimination or exclusion, migration or visibly marginalized status may, for example, increase risk of developing what is then labeled as psychotic disorder. This is why it is sometimes important to also listen to what they are pointing towards.

Construction 144

Construction Childhood trauma Self-awareness Education 144

Mad in America

MAY 2, 2024

This is a crucial time of transition for psychiatry, and current developments are occurring beneath the public’s awareness. A functional psychiatrist may consider one patient’s depression to be the compounding result of childhood trauma and hypothyroidism, and another’s to be the result of metabolic issues, autoimmunity, and food allergies.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 111

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Here’s a basic definition from the internet : “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.” So I decided to indulge my wife’s deep longings for her unfulfilled childhood wishes.

Trauma and the brain 76

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness 76

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2025

Martin Teicher, a neuroscientist renowned for his work on childhood trauma, has demonstrated how exposure to stress and trauma during critical developmental periods can physically alter the structure and function of the brain. Reach out as best you can to the persons natural self.

Trauma and the brain 113

Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Self-awareness 113