My ebook series is called The Chronic Illness and Trauma Connection. These books introduce research showing how trauma increases risk for chronic conditions of all kinds. They explain why it’s not psychological or all in your head. They offer tools for learning how to recognize if any of your symptoms might also be symptoms of trauma and what you can do about it.
Trauma affects risk because adverse life events affect our nervous systems and our genes. From so subtle that we dismiss them – to the overt types of trauma such as abuse, accidents and natural disasters.
These ebooks are free. I’ll be adding more to the series over time.
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Dearest Goooooood Morning from South Africa Johannesburg……
I am always in search of answers that make sense or trying to …….
These books will help me tremendously……Ile be greedy to ask if maybe youve got something lying around concerning all types of disorder behaviors ………
Its amazing that people still provide these information and doesnt keep it to themselves….
Really i am in favour for this…
Thank you…
Hi TJaart in Johannesburg!
What I’ve found in my 15 years of research so far is that trauma appears to increase risk for pretty much all health problems – even when it’s behavior related, including OCD, truancy / acting out / self-harming, addictions, becoming intensely introverted etc.
You can test out the theory by replacing the chronic illnesses I mention with the specific behavior disorder(s) you’re curious about. And if you have a specific one you’re especially interested in I invite you to write back or email me.
I’d love to hear if any of the things I mention are meaningful to you.
Here’s also the abstract for an interesting scientific article (I can email you the pdf if you’d like to read it).