http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/871521 There is an association between childhood trauma, especially sexual trauma, and the misuse of prescription pain pills and injectable drugs, according to a large nationwide sample that followed subjects from adolescence into adulthood.Continue Reading
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1609/S00449/lectures-focus-on-maori-experience-of-trauma.htm Lectures focus on Māori experience of trauma Thursday, 29 September 2016, 10:28 am Press Release: University of Canterbury Lectures focus on Māori experience of trauma The Ngai Tahu Research Centre at the University of Canterbury is hosting a lecture series, He Kokonga Whare – Māori and the Transmission ofContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/83587376/psychotherapist-and-social-worker-hope-to-reframe-trauma But despite its prevalence in the medical world, Finlayson and Gauntlett say it produces a complex pattern of symptoms that the average person does not understand. This could include anxiety, depression, panic attacks, phobias, addictions, social isolation and chronic pain. Finlayson, who has trained extensively in integrative trauma therapyContinue Reading
“I would never say that, over the long term, anyone is absolutely untreatable,” the sexual trauma counselor Dr. Yael Margolin-Rice told Broadly. “Certainly the symptoms can be absolutely insufferable, and the misery it causes can be unfathomable to anyone who has not experienced them.” Nevertheless, “people absolutely do recover” overContinue Reading
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/76927041/sugar-may-be-as-damaging-to-the-brain-as-extreme-stress-or-abuse–study We found that chronic consumption of sugar in rats who were not stressed produced similar changes in the hippocampus as seen in the rats who were stressed but not drinking sugar. Early life stress exposure or sugar drinking led to lower expression of the receptor that binds the majorContinue Reading
I wrote a guest piece for Public Address about the funding cuts to Mental Health services in Christchurch… https://t.co/zH7mdoeZp3 — Kyle MacDonald (@kylemacd) February 16, 2016 All of this makes the ministry’s claim that there is no evidence of an increase in demand frankly absurd. What’s also deeply frustrating toContinue Reading
Kids who don't know a world before the chch quakes are starting school, their needs are high says @SalvationArmyNZ https://t.co/sGR4jhmVgf — RNZ – Nine To Noon (@ninetonoon) February 15, 2016 Tuesday 16 February 2016, with Kathryn Ryan 09:05 Funding concerns for mental health services in Canterbury The Ministry of SocialContinue Reading
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/after-trauma/2015/11/3-reasons-why-fake-it-til-you-make-it-is-great-advice/ Routines are really good for you Having to make decisions literally wears you down. When we are forced to make a lot of decisions, we have less physical stamina, procrastinate more, and are more likely to quit when we don’t succeed. Our judgment isn’t as sound and we’re moreContinue Reading
