The reality of the link for someone with a stress-induced illness, PTSD, is inescapably clear. Many of us look forward to the day when Functional Medicine approaches, replace the inadequacies that exist today in family practice relative to the diagnosis and treatment of this single issue. Trauma, I believe, is the root cause of the social woes we live with in North America. As Dr. Gabor Maté asks frequently when confronting the question of addiction. Dont ask, why the addiction. Ask, why the pain. Trauma, clearly rears itself in the life-stories of addiction: traumatic stress, setting the system up in the body for a life-time of struggle. Im plugging the piggy-bank. Id love to take this conference in. The stress-response in the body. We need to ask better questions in medicine and find the systemic links and the damage induced when were flooded, on a constant basis inside, with glucocorticoids. Fight-or-Flight. Just what the hell is it, were fleeing from and fighting against? Why does our body, seemingly turn against itself in auto-immune diseases? Adopt a Bio-Psycho-Social Approach in finding treatment for yourselves. Be Well. Darren youtu.be/qlHIWXWDuF0
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:25:56 +0000
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