Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
The research presented in the past 3 posts taught me that adversity, trauma and stress during pregnancy as well as during birth and infancy increase risk for chronic illness such as type 1 diabetes and asthma. And that my mother and I had experienced similarly stressful events. This post ...
The Health and Adverse Life Experiences (HALE) survey was conducted in 2017. It is closed and results are now available starting here. The HALE survey is for everyone who wants to help reduce, resolve or reverse chronic illness and other health conditions. It's for anyone who has ever wished ...
My Chronic Illness & Trauma Connection Series ...
In her memoir "Sonata" about living with rheumatoid arthritis, piano virtuoso Andrea Avery wonders whether being born cesarean or not being breastfed affected her risk of getting a debilitating, life-altering disease. Readers on Kelly Young's Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior blog also share ...
This second post of my chronic illness and trauma series builds on early risk factors for autoimmune disease such as type 1 diabetes that I introduced in post #1. It focuses on similar links between adverse babyhood experiences and asthma. Here you'll see how a child's chronic illness - asthma in ...
This series describes research confirming links between trauma and autoimmune disease that also apply to other chronic illnesses such as type 2 diabetes, asthma, obesity, heart disease and other characteristics of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome, and more. This post identifies risk ...
Last summer I focused some more on healing IBS (irritable bowel syndrome) and long-standing severe constipation from a trauma perspective. This is an update to the process of following my impulses and using art as an approach to listening, which I first wrote about in October. I'll tell you about ...
February 2nd is Groundhog day. The tradition means that if the groundhog sees its shadow, then winter will last another 6 weeks. Feb 2nd has been designated as a day of recognition for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and rheumatoid disease (RD) with a goal to help bring RA / RD out of ...
My First Symptoms Of Physical Exhaustion The onset of my chronic fatigue was so gradual that I didn't realize what was happening. In the first few years that I experienced the symptoms of physical exhaustion that would later become diagnosed as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), I went ...
