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35 Gaslighting Phrases That Experts Say Are Unfairly Belittling Your Emotions
Recognizing this behavior early can save you from having to overcome emotional trauma later, psychologists explain.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
What Happens In the Brain During PTSD? | Psychology Today
Brain imaging research helps explain the power of traumatic memories.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Social stress can speed up immune system aging – new research
While the immune system naturally gets weaker with age, social stressors like trauma and discrimination can hasten immunosenescence.
Psychology | Psychology
Why Do Adverse Childhood Experiences Harm Us as Adults?
Understanding the mechanisms can help break the ACEs/health link.
News | News
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – TRAUMA IN THE AFTERMATH
Howard Epstein – LETTER FROM ISRAEL – TRAUMA IN THE AFTERMATH As life in Israel settles back towards what was normal over fifteen months ago, with restaurants bustling, people in the streets without masks and no risk of an air raid siren pierc
Psychology | Psychology
A Dialogue on Psychosis and Trauma | Psychiatric Times
Joining together to discuss psychosis, 3 doctors share their experiences and opinions on the various ways to respond and help patients with trauma.
Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness
Motor Neuron Medication May Assist in Treatment of PTSD | Psychiatric Times
A recent study found riluzole may effectively combat hyperarousal symptoms in combat veterans with PTSD.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Why You Can't Think Your Way Out of Trauma | Psychology Today
Feeling stuck in talk therapy? Learning to listen the body's wisdom can make all the difference in the world.
News | News Items
Mental Health & the Impact of This Pandemic: | Dr. Dyan
How can we protect and support our mental health during the global pandemic? Here are 7 simple tips that can grow our awareness and help us stay strong.
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Prepare for the Ultimate Gaslighting* - Forge
*Gaslighting, if you don’t know the word, is defined as manipulation into doubting your own sanity; as in, Carl made Mary think she was crazy, even though she clearly caught him cheating. He gaslit…
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Can Trauma Really Be 'Stored' In The Body?
Could unprocessed trauma actually get "stored" in the body? And could some sort of physical stimulus or touch help release it? Here's what the experts say.
Psychology | Personality
Trauma Effects the Brain of Survivors and Their Offspring
The inhumanity and cruelty of the Holocaust can not be overstated, and a new European study reports that holocaust survivors have dealt with lifelong negative changes to their brain structures.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
When Trauma Gets Trapped in the Body
If we don't face our pain and acknowledge our trauma, it continues to haunt us from the shadows where we let it reside.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Resistance training helps sleep and anxiety in those with PTSD
A new study provides preliminary evidence that high-intensity resistance training can improve sleep quality and anxiety in adults with post-traumatic ...
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD shows good results in studies
MDMA, more commonly known as ecstasy, can safely enhance the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder when it is used in a clinical setting alongside ...
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The positive vs negative tone of the media impacts mood and trauma
It's no surprise that the repeated viewing of grisly images can be emotionally harmful and exposure to media coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings has ...
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The scientific process to heal any emotional trauma | Ladders
It’s important to note that when it comes to healing suppressed pain or emotional trauma, you don’t have to sit on someone’s couch and re-hash the past.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
5 Ways to Heal the Traumatized Brain (Part 4)
“Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us- in their depth, in their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.”- Sharon Salzberg What a week. You’d...
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Wounded Warrior Project Pledges $160 Million to Battle PTSD | Military.com
The Wounded Warrior group hopes to raise $160 million for the fight against PTSD.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Awake Under Anesthesia | The New Yorker
Joshua Rothman reviews Kate Cole-Adams’s book “Anesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness.”
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Sexual Assault And Harassment May Affect Women's Health For Years
In a small study of middle-aged women, a history of sexual assault and workplace harassment was linked to health problems like hypertension, sleeplessness and depression.
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Science around trauma and memory shifting how police respond to victims
Police are now learning to accommodate include fragmented memories, dissociation and a kind of involuntary paralysis known as “tonic immobility.”
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Can Be Contagious - Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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Can Trauma Be Inherited Between Generations? - The Atlantic
A new study on Civil War prisoners adds to the evidence suggesting that our parents’—and even grandparents’—experiences might affect our DNA.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Sexual Assault Has a Negative Impact On Women’s Health
A new study, published amidst the Brett Kavanaugh hearings (during which Dr. Christine Blasey Ford alleged he sexually assaulted her in high school), finds that women who report histories of sexual assault and harassment have worse health.
Psychology | Personality
Teens Face Lifelong Health Effects After Sexual Assault | Thrive Global
All survivors grapple with lifelong consequences, but teens are particularly vulnerable to certain brain changes.
Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices
Personal Traumatic Growth for Individuals with Hallucinations
Objectives: Hallucinations can be traumatic. However, research into ‘post-traumatic growth’ in relation to hallucinations is scarce. This study aims to furthe..
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Eating Disorders, Trauma and PTSD - Part 2 | Psychology Today
Eating disorders and trauma are integrally connected. Learn more about this connection in this article and what you can do about it.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Just two MONTHS of stress can affect male sperm quality, worrying study reveals - Mirror Online
Researchers from Ben-Gurion University have found that prolonged stress, such as that experienced during military conflict, can impact sperm quality
Advice & Self-Help | Addiction & Recovery
Opioids and Universal Experience of Addiction by Dr. Gabor Maté
With the current epidemic of opioids people are dying every day but addiction cannot be understood if we restrict our vision of it to substances.
Psychology | Personality
What Makes Complex Trauma So Complex?
"Complex trauma" is a term increasingly used to describe multiple instances of trauma, the effects of which are cumulative and experienced over time.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Peter Levine - Building Resiliency in You, Relationships, & Kids
One of the most important things that you can develop in your life, and in your relationship, is your resilience - the way that you bounce back from the challenges that life throws your way. How do you recover in a way that leaves you even stronger, more
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Somatic Experiencing Trauma Treatment for Quality of Life and Health
Abstract Background: Individuals who treat trauma are at significant risk of vicarious traumatization and burnout. Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a resiliency-focused trauma treatment modality designed to address health and mental health symptoms impacted
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Trauma travels through generations
Untangling ourselves from the trauma of previous generations is not always easy, but it’s worth it
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Free Podcast on Epigenetics with Rachel Yehuda
Great talk with Rachel Yehuda on epigenetics and how trauma impacts our bodies, brains, and how it gets passed on AND how we can heal it.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Preventing Body-Trauma Triggers During Radiation Therapy for Cancer
Somatic experiencing may ease traumatic symptoms experienced by patients during radiation therapy.
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How To Be Resilient
How do we increase grit and persistence? Let's look at how survivors get through the most dangerous situations and learn lessons on how to be resilient.
Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research
Traumatic Memories Reduced 62% By Classic Game
Those who had played the game had 62% fewer intrusive memories in the following week.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The Accident No One Talked About
When a family tries to sweep tragedy under the rug, the damage is deep and lasting.
Family & Parenting | Family and Parenting
Rejection By This Parent Does Most Damage To Personality
Both parents affect your personality, but rejection by one parent could be more critical for long-term development.
News | News Items
MDMA May Soon Be Approved For Treatment-Resistant PTSD
It's not just for music festivals.
Family & Parenting | Family and Parenting
The Memories Lost to Infantile Amnesia
How childhood memories shape us, even after we've forgotten them
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Moral Injury in the Context of War: National Center for PTSD
Describes moral injury and its aftermath in the context of war. Explains the relationship between moral injury and PTSD and presents treatment implications.
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Rachel Yehuda Discusses How Trauma Can Affect Our DNA
The James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Center in the Bronx is one of those out-of-the-way places where America warehouses the casualties of its wars. It’s a functional place, surrounded by a high fence, that looks like a cross between an urban com
Psychology | Parenting and Kids
Moving as a child can change who you are as an adult
Researchers have figured out the true impact of moving -- and it's pretty bad.
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It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
by Mark Wolynn Traumas Lost and Found The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to...
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
The Spice That Can Block Bad Memories
Spice already linked to a variety of health benefits.
Psychology | Health & Wellbeing
Somatic Experiencing: A Body-Centered Approach to Healing Veterans' PTSD - Social Work Today
National newsmagazine committed to enhancing the entire social work profession by exploring its difficult issues, new challenges, and current successes.
Health & Fitness | Health News
Embodied Intelligence | A Psychologist Discusses the Body’s Wisdom
Despite one-time taboos against touch within her field of psychotherapy, Aline LaPierre explores our body’s incredible ability to heal trauma.
Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help
Value & Appreciation - The Key to Permanent Change
If you have opened up a situation and really done a lot of work to understand it, but still have a feeling of uneasiness, guilt, fear, any twinge that… - Carly Pepin - Google+
Family & Parenting | Family and Parenting
5 Ways to Deal With A Guilt-Tripping Mother
“It doesn’t matter what I do for my mother, it’s never enough.” “I bought my Mom a beautiful gift for her birthday, but she took it back. She always takes my presents back. What’s with that?” “I hate Mother’s Day. I can’t ever get it r
