Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
I presented this 1 hour ABEs Webinar with slides to the Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), with updates to the 10 categories of adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) I've identified that influence health. In my talk I: This ABEs webinar includes: This free ...
Here are resources and more information on autoimmune disease and trauma, including a free downloadable fact sheet to educate your doctor, links to talks I've given on the role of trauma, and links to surveys on this blog where you can explore the role of adversity in babyhood and childhood events ...
Have you ever wondered whether trauma can cause the autoimmune form of diabetes? Or if there is, at the very least, any research about links between trauma and type 1 diabetes (T1D)? Or if trauma contributed to your risk of developing some other chronic illness, whatever it may be? The science ...
I created the Health and Adverse Life Events (HALE) questionnaire, a Chronic Illness and Trauma Survey, in July 2017. It was a small pilot study to assess if those of you with chronic illness experienced more adversity or trauma in comparison with those of you in good health. I wondered whether ...
Do you ever wonder if your chronic illness or other health condition was influenced by prenatal stress? Or from being born prematurely or by cesarean, or both? Or why, if you're a mother, you didn't feel that sense of connection to your baby that you'd dreamed of or that your friends experienced? I ...
Is there a connection between rheumatoid arthritis and trauma? Ameé Quicironi, whose symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis first started in 2013, believes so. In this interview we did for her podcast at One Broken Mom, we talk about the science showing how adversity is a risk factor for rheumatoid ...
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 ...
In her memoir "Sonata" about living with rheumatoid arthritis, piano virtuoso Andrea Avery wonders whether being born cesarean or not being breastfed affected her risk of getting a debilitating, life-altering disease. Readers on Kelly Young's Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior blog also share ...
This series presents research on links between trauma and autoimmune disease that are relevant for type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, MS, Sjogren's and other chronic diseases as well. Much of the research I share here comes from studies in type 1 diabetes (T1D). You can download this post ...
