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The 12 Most Helpful & Popular Posts (Get Answers & Find Your Way)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 30, 2017 · 2 Comments

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Here are links to the best posts at Chronic Illness Trauma Studies that will help you find your way.

Note that while some events that affect risk for chronic illness are easily recognizable as traumatic, most are not.

The process is not psychological. It’s because life experiences alter our genes and beyond.

Start Page: The Best & Most Helpful Posts

  1. My Story
  2. Planting Seeds for Healing with Links to My Best Resources
  3. Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs) & Fact Sheets
  4. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Fact Sheets & ACE Score
  5. Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences (ACREs)
  6. Adverse Pre-Onset Experiences (APOEs)
  7. Chronic Illness Can Be Traumatizing (Doctors Contribute)
  8. The Discovery Series My step by step discoveries about the trauma connection
  9. The Best Books for Understanding Trauma & Chronic Illness
  10. The Best Therapies for Healing Effects of Trauma
  11. 11 Tools for Working with Chronic Illness
  12. Resourcing posts with tips for working with symptoms
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  1. bryanjason868 says

    March 13, 2018 at 1:55 am

    A very helpful and informative blog.

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    • Veronique Mead, MD, MA says

      March 20, 2018 at 12:03 pm

      Thanks so much – glad it feels like both!!

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Hello! I'm Veronique Mead. On my blog I look at how chronic illness may be a natural response to one or more overwhelming experiences of threat. While this includes infections and toxins, I specialize in the role of psychological and physical trauma. Because the research - still overlooked and underestimated by medicine - has knocked my socks off.

 

Symptoms, it is turning out, may not be caused by mistakes our bodies are making but because our nervous systems have gotten stuck in states of fight, flight or freeze. Our bodies are our best friends and risk everything to help us survive. We are designed to recover or at least begin to heal from the effects of those survival strategies. I never knew any of this as a family physician or assistant professor. And it’s not in your head.

 

I've been testing these ideas with my own disabling disease for the past 20 years (I am much improved and get a little better every year). I share the research, challenges, why some things that seem so logical do not work for everyone (or make things worse), as well as my favorite 11 tools. This is so you can explore what might help you stabilize, improve or possibly even begin to reverse underlying drivers of your chronic illness too. For an overview with links to my most important posts, start here.

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