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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

Childhood Trauma : Adverse childhood experiences include physical and emotional abuse, physical and emotional neglect, and family trauma (such as a parent in prison, or witnessing a parent physically abused by the other parent). for those on parole or a supervised release from prison in the past 12 months, and 9.2%

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Book Review: Writing Ourselves Whole by Jen Cross

The Art of Healing Trauma

For example, legal procedures or governmental institutions that violate basic human rights can leave people in shock. Chapter: the page has room for my incomprehensibility (Page 18) What I got out of this Chapter: I feel more inspired to do free-writing about childhood trauma, and to follow my intuition more.