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Adversity Vs Connectedness
Findings show that your history of relational health - connectedness to family, community, & culture - is more predictive of your mental health than your history of adversity. Connectedness has the power to counter balance adversity.
The timing of the adversity makes a huge difference in determining overall risk. Put simply, if you experience trauma at age 2, it will have more impact on your health than the same trauma taking place at age 17.
Experiences of the first 2 months of life have a disproportionate important impact on your longterm health and development due to rapid brain growth.
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Arousal/Reactivity Symptoms
This alteration in arousal and reactivity are derived from the sensitized stress-response networks being overactive and overly reactive. They include anxiety, hypervigilance, increased startle response, high and variable heart rate and sleep problems. Having the survival mode of fight, flight or ...
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PTSD is Just One Of The Outcomes From Trauma
When all 4 of these categories are present, then it is labeled as PTSD. The majority of the long term effects don't manifest as PTSD.
The effects of trauma stretch far & wide across generations & communities, & it is important to come to the central question with compassion:
What happ...
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Intrusive Symptoms
This is the first cluster of PTSD, which includes recurring, unwanted images & thoughts of the traumatic event, and dreams or nightmares. This is related to the brain's effort to make sense of the world. Trauma is threatening & far outside of our usual experience, shattering our inner landscape a...
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Trauma at any age can cause a cluster of symptoms that occur in the wake of a distressing incident. There are 3 components of trauma, the 3 E's:
- the Event
- the Experience
- the Effects
PTSD is about the effects. It is one of the mental disorders in the Diagnost...
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Avoidant Symptoms
These arise when someone feels distressed after being reexposed to people, places, or other reminders of the original traumatic events. In some ways, avoidant behaviors are an attempt to regain control over what feels like the uncontrollability of the traumatic experience. It is a part of the dis...
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Trauma, PTSD, and how Connectedness counteracts them
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Delayed sleep phase disorder occurs when there is a delay in the major sleep episode relative to the desired clock time. As a result, the person has a hard time falling asleep and getting up at a normal time. Often people with this problem will use
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