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.

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Construction Childhood trauma Self-awareness Education 145

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 120

Trauma and the brain Neurotransmitters and mental health Genetics and mental health Biopsychosocial model 120

Mad in America

MAY 13, 2025

This simple view has turned complex human experiences into basic disease categories boiling down the rich world of human awareness to a list of disorders that need fixing with chemicals. It puts hope, self-determination, and belonging ahead of just following treatment plans.

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Trauma and the brain Poverty and mental health Childhood trauma Self-awareness 104

Love & Life Toolbox

JUNE 18, 2025

Amy Eden, the auther of “The Kind Self Healing Book”, offers her unique insights into navigating the waters of being in love with an adult child of an alcoholic, or “ACoAs.” It was too much to continue faking a perfect self, being pleasing, affable, not having needs, or sour moods. She felt imprisoned and false.

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Self-awareness Childhood trauma Education 105

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.

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Trauma and the brain Childhood trauma Self-awareness Hospitality 81

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

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.

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Trauma and the brain Family dynamics Childhood trauma Education 122