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Big Think: Trauma doesn’t end when the danger does, and for decades, science couldn’t explain why. Rachel Yehuda, a leading PTSD researcher, has spent her career inside that question, uncovering the way that trauma can leave impressions on our genes, sometimes passing biological echoes of those events to the next generation.

Playback speed 1× Subtitles Share post Share post at current time Share from 17:47 2:41 / 50:00 Transcript My current research is really about understanding long-term effects of stress and really entertaining the question of why we are so transformed when we undergo traumatic experiences and why the effects can linger for so long. We are looking at a variety of hormonal and molecular mechanisms to try to help us understand that. I’m also interested in treatment of PTSD. And really what to do about the fact that so many people have effects of traumatic experiences that trouble them. They feel haunted by their traumatic experiences or they feel really stuck because of things that have happened to them in the past. So what’s the best way to get unstuck and what’s the best way to move forward following trauma exposure? So those are the things that my colleagues and I are studying. Why I’ve dedicated my career to studying the effects of trauma is because trauma exposure seems to be everywhere. And increasingly, the more we seem to be learning about the effects of trauma, in some ways, the more stuck we’re getting as a society. We see it as sort of an insurmountable burden or barrier when, in fact, there’s always been stress and there’s always been trauma. And truly, there must also be a way to go forward in the face of trauma and use the lessons of trauma to really achieve resilience and post-traumatic growth. I think what’s really helpful is to make the distinction between the experience of stress and the experience of trauma. So maybe what’s useful is to talk about the difference between stress and trauma. We experience both on pretty much a regular basis, according to statistics. Many people see it as a kind of continuum, with stress being maybe a less serious version of trauma, and trauma’s sort of at the other end of the spectrum. And that’s not entirely wrong. A stressful event is something that is challenging to you in the moment. It could be a trouble at work, trouble in interpersonal relationships. It could be an illness or coping with really any of a number of things. When most people talk about a traumatic experience, they’re talking more in the order of life threat, interpersonal violence, childhood abuse, combat, being in a natural disaster. So clearly there is a range of challenging events with trauma being at the other end of the spectrum. But the differences go even deeper than that because when we talk about a stressful situation, 38 1 3 A PTSD researcher explains MDMA-assisted therapy This isn’t a trip, it’s the … Continue reading

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Futurism: Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT.” / Artificial Intelligence/ Ai Privacy/ Chatgpt/ Mental Health Image by Getty / Futurism With artificial intelligence integrating — or infiltrating — into every corner of our lives, … Continue reading

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FT suggestions today: Article to read free. Mental illness and Hope. This article is from New Atlas September 23rd 2024 but I suggest you read both. Uppsala University

Mental Health Tetris: The surprise therapy for PTSD flashbacks By Abhimanyu Ghoshal September 23, 2024 This classic video game from the 80s is good for more than just keeping you occupied Tom Tang / Unsplash View 2 Images A study conducted by … Continue reading

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Neuroscience News: Reflecting on Parents in Therapy Can Shift Childhood Memories

Reflecting on Parents in Therapy Can Shift Childhood Memories Featured Neuroscience Psychology October 12, 2024 Summary: New research suggests that reflecting on a parent in therapy can subtly alter how a person recalls feelings from childhood, even if the question is … Continue reading

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Irish Legal News: Mental health bill reaches major milestone

mental health Mental health bill reaches major milestone 20 Sep 2024Reading time: 2 minutes Major reforms to mental health legislation have cleared second stage in the Dáil. The 202-section Mental Health Bill 2024 will replace the existing Mental Health Act 2001. It provides for … Continue reading

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Eurasia Review: Break Out Of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road To Resilience – OpEd. Gen Z 1996 to 2000 born. Become familiar with this word “…iatrogenic therapy has become commonplace in schools and parenting manuals across the United States…”. Comment: Personally, I agree, it is part of the WOKE indoctrination of the past two decades, which is now under review. Mental illness is real but too many people are now “diagnosed” by counsellors. Happiness is a personal journey and I recommend, once diagnosed by a Psychiatrist as not having a mental illness, that you engage with Bibliotherapy, the art of reading educates and enlightens.

Break Out Of Bad Therapy: Gen Z’s Road To Resilience – OpEd September 18, 2024  0 Comments By AIER By Katelyn Walls Shelton  In 2018, 1,200 Yale undergraduates crowded into one of the University’s largest venues, Battell Chapel, ready to listen and … Continue reading

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A Bench and a Grandmother’s Ear: Zimbabwe’s Novel Mental Health Therapy Spreads Overseas. Source: The Japan Times. A simple bench in a location, it could be the canal in Dublin, with an “Elder Orphan” with lots of compassion, empathy and experience. What an we in Ireland, learn from The Japan Times focusing on a common sense initiative in impoverished Zimbabwe.

A Bench and a Grandmother’s Ear: Zimbabwe’s Novel Mental Health Therapy Spreads Overseas AP 11:17 JST, July 6, 2024 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into … Continue reading

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Day by day more and more sexual abuse is reported. Private schools are not immune and it is worth watching this interview by Princess Diana’s brother, Charles Spencer … talk about his school with teachers who were sadists, a woman “Please” who basically raped young boys. These schools moulded young people often sent to school at the age of 8. “Abuse is at its worst with people you are supposed to trust”… “Trauma has no sense of time”. Julie Samuel THERAPY WORKS. A Talk with Charles Spencer about Childhood Sexual Abuse. Where there are Predators there is Prey is a saying that captivates my personal attention and this telling of truth by a 59 year old should be told because vulnerabilities are not just about being poor; it is about people who look out for those they can abuse. Fr Shay Cullen talks about abuse of children in the Philippines via the webcam and their parents selling their children often babes in arms. There has to be a way of preventing paedophilia. Smart phones show that young boys are accessing porn and violence (through games) as young as 10.

91,795 views 13 Mar 2024 Therapy Works In this episode of the Therapy Works podcast, I’m speaking with Charles Spencer, who shares his traumatic experiences at a boarding school where he faced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Charles discusses the … Continue reading

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