Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Have you ever wondered if stress can trigger the onset of chronic disease? Or if trauma, infection, or something challenging can put you over the edge and stimulate the onset of serious symptoms? If so you are not alone. Many of us with chronic illness had an onset after trauma or following a ...
My paternal grandfather developed rheumatoid arthritis as an adult. He lost his mother to suicide when he was only 6 years old. It appears from family lore that he was the one who discovered her. This is an example of the link between adverse childhood experiences and rheumatoid ...
My paternal grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I discovered some secrets about his life when I looked into his story because there are links between multigenerational trauma and chronic illness. This is because trauma that occurs in our parents' or grandparents' lives or in their family's ...
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 ...
