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ABEs (Adverse Babyhood Experiences)

Laila's Chrillog Chronic Lyme Story Mead CITS

Chrillog #4: Laila’s Chronic Lyme Story (I Am Happier, Physically Stronger, and More Stable Than Before Getting Sick)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · June 4, 2021 · 11 Comments

This is Laila's Chronic Lyme Story. I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for “chronic illness weblogs,” in which we look at our journeys through a nervous system and trauma lens. Laila's Chronic Lyme Story highlights the commonly overlooked yet important role of adverse childhood relationship ...

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Harpers Chrillog Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Story Mead CITS

Chrillog #2: Harper’s Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Story (ME/CFS)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 13, 2021 · 4 Comments

This is Harper’s chronic fatigue syndrome story, also known as CFS, myalgic encephalomyelitis or "ME", ME/CFS, and CFIDS (chronic fatigue and immune dysfunction syndrome). I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for “chronic illness weblogs,” in which we look at our journeys through a nervous ...

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Marit's Chrillog #1 Parkinson's Story and Asthma Mead CITS

Chrillog #1: Marit’s Asthma & Parkinson’s Story

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · February 19, 2021 · 12 Comments

This is Marit's Parkinson's Story and Asthma Story. I call her story a #Chrillog, which stands for "chronic illness weblogs," in which we look at our journeys through a nervous system and trauma lens. Introduction My name is Marit, I am 58 years old and I live in Norway. I worked as a nurse ...

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Chronic Illness Recovery Books for Healing #autoimmune #ME/CFS #asthma #ACEs #multigenerationaltrauma #MS_CITS_Mead

Chronic Illness Books for Healing Trauma (That Will Help Your Symptoms) + Free Resources List

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 29, 2021 · 14 Comments

The chronic illness books listed here support recovery through stories and by highlighting the new science. The research is discovering that risk for diseases of all kinds is affected by adverse life experiences and other sources of threat and overwhelm. Because these change our body's natural ...

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Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma 8 Categories of Adversity Mead CITS

Type 2 Diabetes and Trauma: 8 Categories of Adversity Increase Risk (+Tips, Fact Sheet and Why It’s Not Your Fault)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · January 21, 2021 · Leave a Comment

Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters Preface A New Model The New Model: Weight is Not the Cause There is a profound and deeply shaming stigma assigned to larger bodies or having type 2 diabetes (T2D) in our culture. T2D is ...

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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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Guide to Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs) and Chronic Illness Mead CITS

Comprehensive Guide to Adverse Babyhood Experiences and Chronic Illness (Free eBook and ABE Fact Sheets For Your Doctor)

Veronique Mead, MD, MA · March 29, 2019 · 8 Comments

Do you ever wonder if your chronic illness or other health condition was influenced by prenatal stress? Or from being born prematurely or by cesarean, or both? Or why, if you're a mother, you didn't feel that sense of connection to your baby that you'd dreamed of or that your friends experienced? I ...

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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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