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Addiction Is a Response to Childhood Suffering: In Depth with Gabor Maté

By John Lavitt — 2016

The Fix Q&A with Dr. Gabor Maté on addiction, the holocaust, the “disease-prone personality” and the pathology of positive thinking.

Read on www.thefix.com

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Good Storytellers Get Better Health Care—But Childhood Trauma Confuses the Narrative

When describing their symptoms, medical history and health changes at a clinic or hospital, every patient is the storyteller of their own health. Good storytellers tend to get better health care, but a history of childhood trauma plays havoc with telling your own story.

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Robert Maunder, Jon Hunter
2021
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When and How to Say “No” to Caregiving

Being able to say, “No, I can no longer continue to provide care in this way,” may not only save the caregiver from emotional and physical burnout, but can also open up opportunities of shared caregiving responsibilities with others while deepening the level of honesty and openness in the...

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Deborah Colgan
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I’m Not O.K., You’re Not O.K.—And That’s O.K.

When we read the news, we might find ourselves overwhelmed with “non-OK-ness,” but Sylvia Boorstein says there are ways we can work with that feeling.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2018
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How to Cope When a Loved One Has a Serious Mental Illness

How mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depressive disorder can affect family and friends.

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Shirley M. Glynn, PhD, Karen Kangas, EdD, and Susan Pickett, PhD
2015
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