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A Love Letter to the Mad

Mad in America

Hope Moon Event poster generated with the help ofChatGPTandDALL-E But to understand my story of hope, we have to go back to the beginning. When emotionally devastating events happened to me, I would really struggle. And soon, I will get this entire sequence in a brief 2 hours, while my beautiful Luna flies in Virgo, my Zodiac sign.

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Trauma? Not Me

Mad in America

There was a time in my life when I packaged up all of the emotions and memories from my childhood trauma and stored them in a zip file within an archive folder of my mind. I thought, ‘I survived my childhood, so I will put that behind me and move forward.’ Generational trauma is woven into the fabric of our being.

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How can I help my child deal with his/her reaction to a traumatic event?

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Parents and caregivers can learn all they can about traumatic stress in children by reading the kidsmentalhealthinfo.com website, using the resource library within the Childhood Trauma section of the site and linking to other sites that we provide as resources. appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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How the Psychosocial Approach Provides an Alternative to the Biomedical Model

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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.

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Beyond the Pill Paradigm: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Care

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Doctors stopped seeing distress as a reaction to life events. When we pin the problem on brain chemistry, we: Make social factors affecting mental health less visible: Studies keep showing that things like being poor, facing discrimination, childhood trauma, loneliness and isolation, and social inequality affect how healthy people are.

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8 Signs You May Be Living with Unresolved Trauma

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Life’s challenging experiences can leave deep emotional scars that persist long after the initial event. These lingering wounds, known as unresolved trauma, can silently shape our behaviors, relationships, and daily experiences without us even realizing it.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

She talks about understanding the place of her own childhood trauma and also the limitations of simplistic trauma narratives. Dhar: Eventually you found the trauma model that talked about extreme childhood stress events, and it explained a lot of your suffering.