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By Tugg, January 15, 2020 Michelle Esrick and Darrell Hammond will be guests on DR. OZ to discuss childhood trauma and the path to recovery tomorrow, January 16. Check your local listings to tune in! In CRACKED UP we witness the effects adverse childhood experiences can have across a lifetime through the incredible story of actor, comedian, master impressionist and Saturday Night Live veteran, Darrell Hammond. Behind the scenes, Darrell suffered from debilitating flashbacks, self-injury,...

By Futures Without Violence, January 2020 We are living in an extraordinary time. Survivors of sexual violence are coming forward and some are finally being heard and believed. And while a few powerful abusers are paying the price for their unlawful conduct, workplaces overall have been slow to respond to the structural, institutional, and cultural norms that underlie #metoo in the workplace. But what if we could stop sexual assault and harassment in the workplace before it happens? We can.

By Ruth Chatterjee, January 15, 2020, for Morning Edition For 1 in 7 pregnant women and new moms, things can feel off. They can have trouble sleeping or feeling connected to their baby, feel weepy, have low energy. They could be clinically depressed, and depression during or after pregnancy is very treatable if it's diagnosed. But only a small percentage of those women get the treatment that they need. Massachusetts is trying to change that. NPR's Rhitu Chatterjee has this story about how...

Robin Cogan, aka The Relentless Nurse, will be the special guest on the "Breaking the Silence with Dr. Gregory Williams" Radio Program this Sunday evening from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm CST. Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 19th year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Legislative Co-chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association (NJSSNA). She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School...

Cabin fever grabbed the 3 yr. old boy relentlessly in the winter weather. Grumpiness took over until I offered him a big poster board on the floor and crayons-to-boot, suggesting he use his whole body to get all those tense feelings out. He jumped into the activity like a thirsty horse heading for water. His whole body swiveled and swerved, moving with the action of the crayons. He continued until he was out of breath, then leaned back and looked at his creative expression of tension leaving...

By Farnoush Amiri, National Public Radio, January 8, 2020 Have you ever had a memory, but you aren't sure whether you dreamed it or read it or saw it in a movie? Have you ever had a day that changed life as you knew it, but no one ever spoke about it again? For me, that day started early on a Sunday morning in June 2005. I had just turned 12. Half-asleep, I heard footsteps surround the corners of my bed. [ Please click here to read more .]

By Tim Layden, NBC Sports, January 8, 2020 This is one of those Olympic stories. You know: A story about talent, passion and very real sacrifice in pursuit of gold, silver or bronze. It is the story of a judo player named Jack Hatton, who practiced his sport from just before his fifth birthday until four days past his 24th, when he stood on the cusp of qualifying for his first U.S. Olympic team, this summer in Tokyo, the cradle of his sport and a country that Jack had come to love almost...

By Anna Wolfe and Michelle Liu, The Marshall Project, January 13, 2020 During her shifts at a Church’s Chicken, Annita Husband looked like the other employees. She wore the same blue and red polo shirt, greeted the same customers and slung the same fried chicken and biscuits. But after clocking out, Husband, a mother in her 40s, had to wait for a white van with barred windows and the seal of the Mississippi Department of Corrections on its sides. It delivered her to the Flowood Restitution...

By Alejandra Morlett Paredes, Ellen E. Lee, Lisa Chik, et al., Aging & Mental Health, January 10, 2020 Objective: Older adults are at a high risk for loneliness, which impacts their health, well-being, and longevity. While related to social isolation, loneliness is a distinct, internally experienced, distressing feeling. The present qualitative study sought to identify characteristics of loneliness in older adults living independently within a senior housing community, which is typically...

By Shannon Firth, MedPage Today, January 5, 2020 As institutions struggle to find solutions, some women are taking matters into their own hands. In February 2019, MedPage Today launched a #MeToo Medicine series, which examined how entrenched hierarchies and a climate of intimidation, retaliation, and fear discourage targets from reporting sexual harassment. In this follow-up, we take a new look at the situation. Institutionally, at least, 2019 saw the problem being taken seriously. [ Please...

This issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry provides new insights into the biological, social, and health-related effects of early-life adversity and exposure to trauma. This issue, focused on early-life environmental factors that are associated with the development and treatment of psychopathology, provides new insights into the biological, social, and health-related outcomes resulting from adversity and trauma exposure. Published Online: 1 Jan 2020 at ...

Four years ago, Dr. Leslie Dempsey would never have talked about ACEs — adverse childhood experiences — with her patients. Now ACEs is a common topic. “Just as I don’t feel awkward asking someone if they smoke or do intravenous drugs, I don’t really feel awkward talking about their childhood traumas in a way that it relates to their health. It’s just integrated into obtaining background and social history,” she says. Dr. Leslie Dempsey Dempsey is a physician in obstetrics who oversees a team...