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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2018 7:46:42 GMT
Trauma, Memory, and Mental Health In this episode of ABC Radio National’s All In The Mind, Lynne Malcolm interviews three experts about the impact of trauma on our memory and mental health. One guest, human rights advisor Indigo Daya, discusses how psychiatric hospitals can be re-traumatizing environments for survivors of abuse. radio.abc.net.au/programitem/pe4DqA5zwD?play=true
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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2018 7:47:58 GMT
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Post by Admin on Apr 5, 2018 7:28:57 GMT
Childhood Adversity Influences Levels of Distress in Voice Hearers By Zenobia Morrill April 4, 2018 Research finds that hearing negative voices explains how childhood adversity is related to distress "A new study, published in Schizophrenia Research, examined the relationship between childhood adversity, hearing negative voices, and individuals’ level of distress. Dr. Cherise Rosen and a team of researchers found that the content of voices heard is a crucial piece that explains why childhood adversity leads to distress. These results point toward the use of trauma-focused interventions to change voice content. “This study aimed to test the hypotheses that levels of childhood adversity would predict levels of negative voice-content, and that negative voice-content would partially mediate a relation between childhood adversity and voice-related distress,” the researchers write." www.madinamerica.com/2018/04/childhood-adversity-influences-levels-distress-voice-hearers/
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Post by Admin on Apr 15, 2018 7:27:34 GMT
Jeffrey Michael Friedman: Trauma and Forced Psychiatric Treatment www.madinamerica.com/2018/04/jeff-friedman-trauma-forced-psychiatric-treatment/"In this episode we discuss: How Jeffrey’s early experience with the alternative school system led to being othered and ostracized, which influenced his later involvement with the psychiatric survivors movement. How the trauma-informed perspective offers an alternative framework to the traditional medical model of mental health. Why forced psychiatric treatment meets the definition of trauma, and more specifically, betrayal trauma. The psychological effects of involuntary commitment forced drugging and outpatient commitment. That forced treatment reinforces the notion that distress or crisis results from individual pathology rather than familial mistreatment or trauma. That victims of forced treatment may be less likely to seek medical care for physical health issues or receive proper medical treatment. How survivors can heal from forced treatment. The parallels between the harm reduction movement and the psychiatric survivors movement, and similarities between safe consumption sites and peer services. That the addiction treatment industry, including 12-step programs, can be coercive in similar ways to the mental health system." Acknowledging The Survivor: Exclusion, Trivialisation and Denial January 24, 2011 By admin beyondmeds.com/2011/01/24/acknowledgesurvivor/
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Post by Admin on Apr 19, 2018 8:26:15 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2018 10:28:17 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2018 10:46:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2018 10:54:29 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 29, 2018 10:59:59 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2018 9:50:12 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 3, 2018 18:07:25 GMT
Complex PTSD -
“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk
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Post by Admin on Jul 13, 2018 16:06:16 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jul 17, 2018 10:48:23 GMT
Early Life Experience: It’s In Your DNA From Scientific American: “We know that the activity and organization of the brain changes in response to experience. Memories and learning are reflected in the number and strength of connections between nerve cells. We also know that the brain is genetically mosaic, but a new study makes a remarkable connection between experience and the genetic diversity of the brain. It suggests that experience can change the DNA sequence of the genome contained in brain cells. This is a fundamentally new and unexplored way in which experience can alter the brain. It is of great scientific interest because it reveals the brain to be pliable, to its genetic core, in response to the world.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/early-life-experience-its-in-your-dna/
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2018 14:52:15 GMT
Politics and Psychiatry: the Cost of the Trauma Cover-Up by BRUCE E. LEVINE www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/18/politics-and-psychiatry-the-cost-of-the-trauma-cover-up/In contrast, there is a great deal of scientific evidence showing that people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses are far more likely to have been victims of societal and familial trauma. Citing the empirical research, Hunter reports: “Adverse experiences, particularly in childhood (such as physical and sexual abuse, parental separation, bullying, parental death, foster care, neighborhood violence, poverty, racism, etc.), have been demonstrated to have a direct and dose-response relationship (meaning the more adversity, the greater the risk) with adult mental health issues like hearing voices, suicidality, drug abuse, experiencing altered states of consciousness, extreme and intense emotions, fragmented sense of self, obesity, depression, paranoia, beliefs in conflict with consensus reality, anxiety, and more.” A great tragedy for people viewed as biochemically defective rather than as victims of trauma is that such individuals who are already suffering are then stigmatized and marginalized owing to their defect status. Hunter reports that “ongoing efforts to combat stigma by asserting that ‘mental illness is an illness like any other’ are actually associated with increased stigma and increased efforts to distance oneself from those deemed mentally ill.”
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Post by Admin on Jul 29, 2018 10:14:23 GMT
www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime"Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across a lifetime, to the point where those who’ve experienced high levels of trauma are at triple the risk for heart disease and lung cancer. An impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on."
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