Chronic Illness Trauma Studies
How Adversity Shapes Health & Why It's Not In Your Head
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 ...
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 ...
Get the Free Fact Sheet & Post The forms will appear momentarily Chapters 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 "largely the result of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This series of blog posts presents the science linking chronic illness and trauma. It introduces research that made me think differently about disease from what I learned as a doctor. It may that help you think differently too, as well as understand why events that trigger the onset of disease are ...
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 ...
