Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
If you have a chronic illness, research showing links between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and chronic illness may help begin to make sense of your symptoms. They explain why it's not your fault. And why it's not in your head. In this post you will be able to calculate your ACE ...
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 ...
In this 6th post of my discovery series, I review 25 years of studies examining links between stress, trauma and adverse events, and type 1 diabetes (T1D). The findings support the long-held suspicion that serious life events increase risk for type 1 diabetes. Whether you have T1D or a different ...
If you've heard of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and have a low score (such as 1 or "zero ACEs"), you may still suspect that trauma has somehow affected your health but feel like your doctors and the research are missing something important. Or you may have a high ACE score and feel that ...
