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Marit's Chrillog #1 Parkinson's Story and Asthma Mead CITS

Chrillog #1: Marit’s Asthma & Parkinson’s Story

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 19, 2021 · 10 Comments

This is Marit's Parkinson's Story and Asthma Story. I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for "chronic illness weblogs," in which we look at our journeys through a nervous system and trauma lens. Introduction My name is Marit, I am 58 years old and I live in Norway. I worked as a nurse ...

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Chronic Illness Recovery Books for Healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma #MS_CITS_Mead

Chronic Illness Books for Healing Trauma (That Will Help Your Symptoms) + Free Resources List

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 29, 2021 · 14 Comments

The chronic illness books listed here support recovery through stories and by highlighting the new science. The research is discovering that risk for diseases of all kinds is affected by adverse life experiences and other sources of threat and overwhelm. Because these change our body's natural ...

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Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma 8 Categories of Adversity Mead CITS

Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma: 8 Categories of Adversity Increase Risk (+Tips, Fact Sheet and Why It’s Not Your Fault)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters The New Model: Weight is Not the Cause There is a profound and deeply shaming stigma assigned to larger bodies or having type 2 diabetes (T2D) in our culture. T2D is "largely the result of ...

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Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Trauma and Chronic Illness Mead CITS

Planting Seeds for Healing 8 Categories of Adversity (and Chronic Illness)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 8, 2021 · 6 Comments

There are empowering, encouraging things about understanding the role of adversity and trauma as risk factors for chronic illness. Among the most important are that it provides opportunities. Opportunities for making sense of symptoms. Opportunities for removing blame. And opportunities for planting ...

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MECFS How the Cell Danger Response Gets Stuck in Freeze to Cause ME/CFS chronic fatigue syndrome #CFS #CDR Mead_CITS

IIA. ME/CFS and The Cell Danger Response: How Adversity Triggers the Freeze Response and How the CDR Gets Stuck (Includes Surveys)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 15, 2019 · 2 Comments

I've described how chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disease driven by a cell danger response (CDR) and a nervous system caught in a threat response of freeze and some of us with an underlying fight/flight response (wired and tired) in Part 1. This second post describes how the CDR gets stuck ...

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ME/CFS SURVEY looks at onset triggers such as infections, mold, trauma; adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) as risk factors for ME/CFS #chronicfatiguesyndrome #fms #POTS #lupus #autoimmune #asthma #diabetes Mead CITS

IIB. ME/CFS Surveys (The Cell Danger Response and Hibernation Series)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 15, 2019 · 2 Comments

This post contains a group of chronic fatigue syndrome questionnaires (ME/CFS surveys) and serves as a short companion to other, more detailed blog posts. Post I introduces Dr. Robert Naviaux' research on the cell danger response (CDR) and how ME/CFS represents a metabolic state of freeze. Post IIA ...

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Links between adverse childhood experiences and chronic illness offer treatment and tools for healing. Calculate ACE score. Overview. ACEs increase risk for #Autoimmune #MS #Diabetes #ME/CFS #heartdisease #asthma #fibromyalgia #IBD #chronicpain Chronic Illness Trauma Studies #CITS

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Chronic Illness (Calculate Your ACE Score & See Graphs)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 30, 2018 · 24 Comments

If you have a chronic illness, research showing links between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and chronic illness may help begin to make sense of your symptoms. They explain why it's not your fault. And why it's not in your head. In this post you will be able to calculate your ACE ...

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Understanding Trauma Makes Sense of Chronic Illness Introduction Mead 2018 List of 30+ diseases #autoimmune #diabetes #stroke #hypertension #metabolicsyndrome #insulinresistance #Alzheimers #ME/CFS

The Chronic Illness and Trauma Series: 30+ Diseases Increased by Adversity (Introduction)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 16, 2018 · 2 Comments

This series of blog posts presents the science linking chronic illness and trauma. It introduces research that made me think differently about disease from what I learned as a doctor. It may that help you think differently too, as well as understand why events that trigger the onset of disease are ...

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Chronic Illness and Trauma FAQ: Top Reader Questions About Treatment Healing and More Mead CITS #autoimmune #ME/CFS asthma #IBD #RA #PTSD #fibromyalgia #depression #anxiety #mentalillness #obesity #addictions #cure #treatment

Chronic Illness and Trauma FAQ

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · July 24, 2018 · 4 Comments

This chronic illness and trauma FAQ addresses the most common questions I get asked. The answers explain where to find therapists to work with chronic illness from a cell danger response / nervous system / trauma perspective, where to learn more about the science, how to find my free ebooks, ...

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