A new study finds people with compulsion disorders such as substance abuse, binge eating and obsessive compulsive disorder have similar patterns of decision making and brain structures. Reporting their findings in the journal Molecular Psychiatry ,...
The Rochester-based Wilson Foundation has for more than 50 years dedicated itself to better understanding the plight of homeless families and the best ways to help them achieve residential stability. More recently, we partnered with the National...
As ACEsConnection has reported, the New York Times May 22 spotlighted Bessel van der Kolk and his idea that to change the way we heal a traumatized mind, start with the body, (Dr. van der Kolk, center, in session, drawn by Matthew Woodson for...
Photo credit: U.S. Army, Flickr A psychiatrist talks about the different elements of adjusting back to civilian life, and briefly raises the importance of unresolved adverse childhood experiences. Maybe it is a cliche to say that someone...
Photo credit: John Picken Photography, Flickr As May is celebrated as Mental Health Month this year, Minnesota is marking the 25th anniversary of the Comprehensive Children's Mental Health Act, one of the earliest and most comprehensive pieces...
Photo credit: Jessica Murri For Boise State Public Radio Caitlin Lanier understands the healing process required for sexual assault survivors. She was sexually assaulted during her first year of college. Lanier didn’t have many options to...
Credit: Chloe Cushman/The Guardian When he was 22, Chris Gethard thought every day about killing himself. He thought about it so often that eventually it didn’t even feel weird any more. Then, one day, he pulled his car over to the side of...
My Speech at Paladin's Class of 2014 Commencement Ceremony Congratulations, to all of you who have come so far, and made it to this evening, the celebration of your graduation, the Commencement of the Class of 2014. This past year, these past...
Photo credit: Spencer Platt, Getty Images Though this story doesn't mention ACEs, it does beg the question of whether or not trauma or chronic stress has played a role in the shifting demographics of heroin use. Do you have thoughts on this?...
Photo credit: Tatiana Vdb, Flckr T he results of this study are a reminder of how environmental exposures may affect intelligence and behavior--and possibly compound other harmful experiences early in life. Prenatal exposure to flame retardants...
Illustration credit: Chloe Cushman, The Guardian No genuine system of mental health care exists in the United States. This country's diagnosis and treatment of mental health problems are fragmented across a variety of providers and payers...
Yesterday I stopped to take a picture of a sign marking the site of the most active slave market in the south. The sign stands on the corner of Royal St. and St. Louis St. in the old historic district of Mobile, Alabama. When I got back to the Quality...
Cycles of trauma and violence continue when mental illness is criminalized, rather than treated: The man running the largest mental health institution in the United States is not a doctor. He did not major in psychiatry, nor did he spend...
Understanding motivations behind violence and assault may help to prevent them from occurring: For some, the sense that they are not sufficiently masculine leads to stress, and ultimately to striking out at the women closest to them. Last...
This article demonstrates how stressors can build upon each other: At any given time, there may be a few hundred homeless people in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, huddling under the overpasses from the persistent Washington rain....