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Chronic Illness Recovery Trauma Therapies for healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #MS #IBD #depression #anxiety #PTSD #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma_CITS_Mead

Therapies for Chronic Illness: Healing Nervous System Responses to Stress & Trauma (Find a Therapist & List)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 29, 2017 · 61 Comments

These somatically based therapies for chronic illness are designed to work with the nervous system and are not about will power, "positive thinking," managing an illness, or healing through life style changes and behavior changes. Many of these things can help, but for many with chronic disease they ...

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Chronic Illness is Not Psychological. The research that changes our understanding and why exercise, stress reduction and will power are not enough.

Book 3: Why Chronic Illness is Not Psychological (Even if You Have a History of Trauma)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 3, 2017 · 2 Comments

Why chronic illness is not psychological even if you have a history of trauma Book 3 of The Chronic Illness and Trauma Connection series  "Chronic Illness Is Not Psychological" introduces the new science about risk factors for chronic illness, explains why it's not in ...

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Book 2: Making Sense of Symptoms, The Chronic Illness Trauma Connection ebook series by Veronique Mead, MD, MA 2017

How to Recognize Symptoms of Trauma in Chronic Illness (Free ebook 2)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · April 21, 2017 · 6 Comments

This second ebook is for anyone struggling with symptoms that aren't resolving with standard, alternative or other approaches. Or that keep recurring even though you lead a healthy lifestyle and follow every recommendation for optimal health. This is for those of you with chronic ...

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Video_Multigenerational experiences (AMEs) and adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) increase risk for chronic illness #me/cfs #fibromyalgia #autoimmune #diabetes #ms #lupus

Video: Multigenerational Trauma and Birth Events are Risk Factors for Chronic Illness (It’s Not Psychological)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 17, 2017 · 4 Comments

I made this video because so many of us living with a chronic illness have no evidence of trauma in our histories. If trauma is ever brought up, it can be used to blame people for being sick because it's still often thought to be psychological. But there are links between adverse multigenerational ...

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Video_Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adverse pre onset experiences (APOEs) that trigger onset and increase risk for chronic illness #me/cfs #fibromyalgia #autoimmune #diabetes #ms #lupus_CITS_Mead

Video: When You Have a Chronic Illness and A History of Trauma (It’s Not Psychological)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 3, 2017 · 10 Comments

Many people with chronic illness have a history of trauma and wonder if the two are linked. I created a video on this question because so many people with chronic illness develop symptoms soon after a traumatic event. Many wonder if trauma at other times in their lives could also affect risk. A ...

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Causes of Chronic Disease: A Look at Life Experiences and "Pruning"

Brain Plasticity and Chronic Illness: Life Experiences Change the Brain via “Pruning”

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 26, 2016 · 2 Comments

Have you ever wished for evidence that life events affect our health because they influence brain plasticity and gene function, rather than because it's psychological? The links between brain plasticity and chronic illness are real. Millions of neurons grow in our nervous systems and elsewhere in ...

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Epigenetics and chronic Illness: How life experiences such as stress, trauma and adverse events affect our genes and influence our health

Epigenetics and Chronic Illness: Why Symptoms May Be More Reversible Than We’ve Thought

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · August 1, 2014 · 17 Comments

This post introduces insights from links between adverse life events, epigenetics and chronic illness. It describes how this new science suggests that chronic physical diseases and other health conditions thought to be permanent may be instead be much more reversible than we've thought (("Metabolic ...

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

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

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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