A remarkable coping mechanism helped me survive the ACE parts of my childhood, and I find I need to give a heads-up about it to anyone who treats me in a medical setting. While chatting at last year’s ACEs Conference in San Francisco, Dr. Vince Felitti asked me to write an article for The Permanente Journal about my experiences with the medical community, as a person with a childhood-trauma-related, but mostly invisible, mental health disorder.
And, of course, who can say “No” to Dr. Felitti? The article, “A Patient’s View of the Challenges and Blessings of Her Dissociative Disorder” is now available online and will be in the February print version of The Permanente Journal. On the basis of my own experiences, I offer some instructive anecdotes and tips for health care practitioners on working with patients with a trauma-related diagnosis such as a dissociative disorder.
Read the article here: https://www.thepermanentejourn...020/winter/7305.html
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