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Jones: Day 2: Soda, cigarettes and trauma: How Adverse Childhood Experiences alter brain chemistry, cultivate unhealthy habits and prompt premature death
Patients would carry soda into Dr. Gerard Clancy’s office, with cigarettes tucked away for after therapy. Often victims of abuse or violent crime, they would seek soothing but risky behaviors to cope. Overweight. Chronic pain. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Type II diabetes. His former patients will die younger than they should, he said. Clancy conducted therapy sessions until he became president of the University of Tulsa in 2016. At his psychiatry clinic, he saw firsthand how a...
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Re: Jones: Day 2: Soda, cigarettes and trauma: How Adverse Childhood Experiences alter brain chemistry, cultivate unhealthy habits and prompt premature death
It has been my fall back option that when the past haunts a bit I seek words from others and if I can't get words from others I write words for self .. I have been journaling since March and find my entries, not done daily, represent a growth or being stuck and as time passes progress of understanding comes forth.. A word here and a word there and a memory is retrieved and I write about it. It would be helpful to all of the victims of sexual abuse to write via a journal but so nice to have...