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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS / ME / SEID)

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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Are you a womi? Lady's Handbook for her mysterious illness by Sarah Ramey, Book recommendation Mead CITS

Book Recommendation: Are You a WOMI?

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · December 4, 2020 · 2 Comments

Are you a WOMI (a woman with a mysterious illness)? Or a MOMI (a man with a mysterious illness)? A person of any orientation with an autoimmune disease? Or chronic fatigue syndrome (which research is beginning to suggest may also be an autoimmune illness)? Or who is not responding to treatment, or ...

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Healing multigenerational trauma with Family Constellations to heal chronic illness_CITS_Mead_2019

My Adventures in Healing Multigenerational Trauma and Chronic Illness with Systemic Family Constellations

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · July 12, 2019 · 6 Comments

In the few months before writing this article, I had an exacerbation of symptoms which I came to recognize as a trauma response. It had slowed me down to a crawl and to the point where I couldn’t even write a blog post. Here, I describe how symptoms can stem from trauma in a family system and ...

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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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Naviaux cell danger response (CDR) offers a new paradigm of disease and chronic illness__CITS_Mead

The Cell Danger Response: The New Disease Paradigm (100 Chronic Illnesses such as Diabetes, ME/CFS, Autoimmune Diseases and more )

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · November 9, 2018 · 18 Comments

The cell danger response (CDR) is a hypothesis proposed by UC San Diego professor Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, that offers a new paradigm for understanding disease. Research studies are proving this view to be a game changer - and a paradigm shifter. This research includes risk for chronic fatigue ...

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Chronic fatigue syndrome me / cfs is a state of freeze hibernation Mead_CITS

I. ME/CFS and Freeze: A Metabolic State of Hibernation That is Not in Your Head (The Cell Danger Response and Polyvagal Theory)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 14, 2018 · 23 Comments

This post, also a guest post on Cort Johnson's Health Rising blog about chronic fatigue syndrome (aka ME/CFS), introduces the relationship between ME/CFS and freeze states. These occur in the nervous system, in our cells and in all kinds of tissues in the body (updated October 2020). The science ...

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How Understanding Trauma Made Sense of My Chronic Illness (ME/CFS) and Helped Me Begin to Heal

How Understanding Trauma is Making Sense of My Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) and Helping Me Heal (My Chrillog)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · September 8, 2017 · 34 Comments

Understanding the connections between trauma and ME/CFS (myalgic encephalitis/chronic fatigue syndrome) has helped me begin to heal and change the direction of my life in the best possible ways. I never realized that I'd experienced adversity until I left medical practice, retrained as a trauma ...

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adverse multigenerational experiences (AMEs) may be risk factors for rheumatoid disease / arthritis and me/cfs

Adverse Multigenerational Experiences (AMEs), Rheumatoid Disease and ME/CFS

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · October 31, 2014 · 5 Comments

My paternal grandfather had rheumatoid arthritis (RA). I discovered some secrets about his life when I looked into his story because there are links between multigenerational trauma and chronic illness. This is because trauma that occurs in our parents' or grandparents' lives or in their family's ...

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