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It's Not Psychological

Podcast on research showing how 7 types of trauma increase risk for Chronic Illness and why it's not in your head Examples from Serena Williams hospital trauma, soldiers, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen and #IBD, ME/CFS and more. Therapy Chat Laura Reagan and Veronique Mead, MA MA CITS

Podcast: A Family Doctor and Trauma Therapist on How Trauma Increases Risk for Disease (& Why It’s Not In Your Head)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 4, 2019 · 3 Comments

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 - ...

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Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and the Nervous System _ANS_parasympathetic_sympathetic_fight_flight_freeze_polyvagal_#autoimmune #chronicIllness #MS #ME/CFS #fibromyalgia #chronicfatigue #lupus #RA #RD #T1D #IBD CITS_Mead

Essential Guide to Chronic Illness, Trauma and The Nervous System: Keys to Quelling the Volcano

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 29, 2018 · 6 Comments

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 ...

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Stress, Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: 5 reasons the links between adverse life events and risk for T1D are mistakenly dismissed #chronicillness #ME/CFS #MS #Parkinsons #ALS #disability

#5 Stress, Trauma and Type 1 Diabetes: 7 Reasons Doctors Dismiss Trauma as a Risk Factor for Disease

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 17, 2017 · 4 Comments

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 ...

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Chronic Illness is Not Psychological. The research that changes our understanding and why exercise, stress reduction and will power are not enough.

Book 3: Why Chronic Illness is Not Psychological (Even if You Have a History of Trauma)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 3, 2017 · 2 Comments

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 ...

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The Limits of mind-body-medicine for many people with chronic illness. A blog post by Tumbling the Stone: a chronic illness blog.

Mind Body Medicine and Chronic Illness (It’s Not All in Your Head)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 7, 2016 · 2 Comments

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 ...

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