A Big Thank You
At the end of October, I'll be ending my blog, Trauma's Labyrinth . I want to thank you for reading my posts. I have greatly appreciated the emails, comments, and exchanges I have had with many of you, and the opportunity to learn...
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New EMDR Therapy for Developmental Trauma
C ourtesy of Dr. Sandra Paulsen (left) & D. Michael Coy, MA, LCSW [Kathy's preface: First I discovered it deep within myself and called it trauma since the sperm hit the egg. Then I read that Bessel van der Kolk calls it developmental trauma, in his drive to have it finally recognized by the psychiatric profession. Dr. Allan Schore calls it trauma in the first 1000 days, conception to age...
Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides [NYTimes.com]
When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide. Suicide gets a lot less attention than...
How Demi Lovato Is Leading The Conversation About Mental Illness [HuffingtonPost.com]
Many people who experience mental illness feel like they have to suffer in silence due to negative stereotypes associated with their conditions. Demi Lovato is actively working to change that. As the face of the Be Vocal mental...
California Approves Laws To Cut Use Of Antipsychotics In Foster Care [NPR.org]
Efforts to protect children in foster care from being inappropriately medicated with powerful antipsychotic drugs got a big boost forward on Tuesday, when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed three bills into law designed to reform prescribing....
Wars the World Over Leave Many Fighting PTSD at Home and Abroad [Health.USNews.com]
The world is at war. Pockets of civil unrest from Syria to Afghanistan put soldiers and civilians in harm’s way. And for those who live through the trauma, many now battle with post-traumatic stress disorder , in which their...
CAMH survey shows over half of workers with depression do not recognize need for treatment [MedicalNewsToday.com]
Researchers say unrecognized need for care among workers is a major barrier to treatment and contributes to productivity loss More than half of workers who reported symptoms of depression did not perceive a need for treatment, according to a...
Were These Transgender Prisoners Paroled — Or Just Kicked Out? [TheMarshallProject.org]
Michelle-Lael Norsworthy was well on her way to becoming a pioneer this year—the first U.S. inmate to receive gender reassignment surgery—when she was unexpectedly freed from Mule Creek State Prison in California. In a ruling...
Report: Supreme Court Opinions Changing Juvenile Justice Landscape Beyond JLWOP [JJIE.org]
The Supreme Court’s landmark juvenile sentencing rulings establishing that youth should be treated differently than adults have had effects beyond the death penalty and juvenile life without parole (JLWOP) sentences, says a recent ...
Suicide Risk May Rise for Some After Weight-Loss Surgery [Consumer.HealthDay.com]
Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests. These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight,...
Black Workers Really Do Need to Be Twice as Good [CityLab.com]
For decades, black parents have told their children that in order to succeed despite racial discrimination, they need to be “twice as good”: twice as smart, twice as dependable, twice as talented. This advice can be found in...
Anger Reduces Women's Ability to Influence Others [PSMag.com]
Angry men are strong and forceful, while angry women are often dismissed as overly emotional. That double standard has been alleged for years now, with plenty of anecdotal evidence to back it up. A newly published study...
Compared to Men, Women Bear Six Times More of the Cost of Alzheimer’s Disease [PSMag.com]
Women make up two-thirds of the 5.1 million people currently suffering from Alzheimer’s disease in the United States. But that figure doesn’t fully capture the disease’s disproportionate impact on women, according a new...
The Conversation No One Wants to Have About Dating With a Mental Illness [MIC.com]
I 'm a sexual assault survivor, and I was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder earlier this year. Because I'm open about my experience and have written about it for various websites, most of my partners date me...
New 50-State Report Shows Few Successes in Mental Health Parity Implementation
The Kennedy Forum and The Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation released a groundbreaking set of reports from all 50 states revealing striking new details about the implementation of the Mental Health Parity and...