Real Psychiatry

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

My speculation is that the commonest cultural factor in play these days is childhood trauma because the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) checklist is available and considered a measure. I did not touch on the rhetoric involved and that is long, detailed, and discussed in other places on this blog.

Construction 52

Construction Childhood trauma Education 52

Mad in America

APRIL 28, 2025

I had already gained the insight that my original emotional crisis back in1994, was not in fact the beginning of what was later diagnosed as severe treatment resistant depression, but a completely understandable reaction to the then current circumstances and my childhood trauma. At the end of 2001, I had a temporary reprieve.

Trauma and the brain 85

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 85

Mad in America

DECEMBER 30, 2023

H ere we highlight the top ten of Mad in America’s most read blogs and personal stories of 2023. The relationship between childhood trauma and later development of psychotic symptoms has received increasing attention in recent years.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy 145

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Sleep and mental health 145

Mad in America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

It will come from addressing the root causes—childhood trauma and the systems that perpetuate it. Until science fully understands the relationship between trauma and smoking (i.e., People don’t choose their trauma, and many wouldn’t smoke if they didn’t feel they had to. drug use), let’s pause the blame game.

Trauma and the brain 114

Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma 114

Mad in America

JUNE 13, 2024

I was given psychotherapy all through this time, but the therapists were not impressed by my accounts of childhood trauma. I never improved, instead slowly became worse and worse, as a revolving door patient. Apparently, nothing I told them was sufficient to cause the state I found myself in.

Trauma and the brain 145

Trauma and the brain Hospitality Pharmaceuticals Sleep and mental health 145

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. His research was confirmed by CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACE studies involving 17,000 individuals.

Trauma and the brain 124

Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Education 124

Mad in America

DECEMBER 15, 2023

After discussing the “age of alters” on my blog one time, it was suggested by one of my readers that the age at which the dissociation occurs—due to trauma—is the age that becomes associated with that part of the trauma sufferer. Our son and I freaked out! I believe this was a different aspect of the Rip Van Winkle effect.

Trauma and the brain 82

Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness 82

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 140

Self-awareness Biopsychosocial model Sleep and mental health Aging and mental health 140

Mad in America

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Processing (early childhood) trauma requires space and safety. Human experiences cannot be captured in protocols and recovery takes time. Patience, compassion and customization are needed to guide someone through such a process.

Childhood trauma 84

Childhood trauma 84

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) The rise in trauma diagnoses is partly driven by the misuse of the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) framework, which was designed to study the link between childhood trauma and long-term health, not as a diagnostic tool.

Resilience and coping 143

Resilience and coping Self-awareness Sleep and mental health Nutrition and mood 143

Mad in America

JUNE 3, 2025

Its a natural phenomenon that some experience to a higher and more manifest degree than others, especially those that are exposed to childhood trauma. Trauma-informed therapy was necessary to help Laura. But voice hearing is neither dangerous nor uncommon.

Trauma and the brain 111

Trauma and the brain Self-awareness Aging and mental health Bipolar disorder 111

Mad in America

MAY 15, 2025

In recent years, thanks to efforts from prominent pediatricians like Dr. Nadine Burke Harris , the former Surgeon General of California, and other notable professionals, enormous strides have been made in understanding childhood trauma.

Poverty and mental health 102

Poverty and mental health Aging and mental health Childhood trauma Anxiety disorders 102