This trauma creates a lifelong pattern of people-pleasing, a tendency to internalize others' emotions, and an immense fear of ...

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A new study reports a potential neurological link between adverse experiences in childhood and the negative thinking patterns characteristic of mood disorders. Researchers found that a specific ...

Trauma survivors often oscillate between intrusion (floods of memory) and constriction (shutting down or disappearing) ...

A new study suggests that women whose most distressing traumatic experiences occurred during childhood respond differently to ...

A powerful story of survival shows how listening, safety, and understanding help restore the lives of those shaped by early ...

Adverse childhood experiences have impacts deep into old age, especially for those who experienced violence, and include both physical and cognitive impairments. It's known that a difficult childhood ...

Researchers found that potentially traumatic childhood experiences, including physical abuse and parental separation, have ...

Somhairlín Ó Cearbhaill, 33, was born into trauma, quite literally. The daughter of Irish immigrants who struggled with addiction, she came into the world with hearing, learning, and physical ...

There’s a reason April Beaton has a 6-foot white beanbag in the living room and not a coffee table; a reason her 5-year-old son’s bedroom is kept bare. There’s a reason she keeps a stack of printouts ...

After the Nashville mass shooting, U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tennessee, said their is not much lawmakers can do about the school shooting in Green Hills where six people were killed. "We're not gonna ...