Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Some of you have told me how you wish you'd known you were at risk of developing the chronic illness you live with so that you might have had the opportunity to do something about it - whether to try to prevent it or get help to decrease the risk or delay onset. A new screening test is now ...
What we've learned so far in our child diabetes study with 60 responses from mothers of one or more children with type 1 diabetes and children with no chronic health challenges is that there appear to be differences between the groups. Some of you participated at the beginning of this study in March ...
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 ...
We are conducting a study for mothers of a child 18 years old or younger that lives with type 1 diabetes or of a child with no chronic health conditions or health challenges. Responses are currently closed on the blog survey. Below is more information about the study. This survey is part of a ...
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 ...
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 ...
