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Veronique Mead, MD, MA

Trauma and Chronic Illness: 19 Characteristics that Can Make Sense of Symptoms (Summary of the Science)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 16, 2014 · 14 Comments

The Trauma and Chronic Illness Model: Summary of the Science: #stress before onset, #triggers, multigenerational trauma, trauma in childhood; insights for treating chronic disease

There are a lot of unanswered questions about chronic illness. Why do so many of us develop our diseases after periods of stress, for example? Why are we then unable to recover by addressing, removing or reducing the stress in our lives? Why do some people with type 1 diabetes, or chronic ...

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