Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
Many of us with chronic illness wish our doctors "got it" about trauma, believed us, took our symptoms seriously, and knew that it's not in our heads. Many of us have some sense that a difficult experience or series of adversities - surgery, an accident, the loss of a loved one, an infection - ...
Having had a chronic illness for 20 years, it has sometimes felt like I've had a volcano inside of me - out of my control, traumatic, and life-altering.But research explaining links between chronic illness, trauma and the nervous system has made sense of my illness. It has also helped me ...
Despite observed links between stress, trauma and type 1 diabetes (T1D) for over 2000 years, most doctors don't know about the research. Despite 40 years of more specific, recent research showing that serious life events and trauma increase risk for T1D, the idea is still dismissed. This means ...
Why chronic illness is not psychological even if you have a history of trauma Book 3 of The Chronic Illness and Trauma Connection series "Chronic Illness Is Not Psychological" introduces the new science about risk factors for chronic illness, explains why it's not in your head and not your fault, ...
There is a misleading perception that when people heal or fully recover from a chronic disease using mind body medicine it means their illness was all in their minds. Or that if meditation, mindfulness, yoga or any type of psychotherapy are recommended to a person with a chronic illness, that it ...
