Mental health
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3 hours agoCaring for an Autistic Child Amid War and Uncertainty
War deeply affects children and families, creating a need for targeted interventions to foster resilience.
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Real estate
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoNeuroscience reveals that the feeling of home isn't about geography or architecture. It's a nervous system state. People who never learned to feel safe in the presence of others carry a portable homelessness that no mortgage, renovation, or relocation has ever been shown to resolve. - Silicon Canals
Home is not just a physical space; it's about the ability of one's nervous system to settle in the presence of others.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 day agoThe person in your life who never complains and handles everything isn't at peace - they learned so early that expressing a need cost them something that they stopped expressing needs entirely - Silicon Canals
Being perceived as 'low maintenance' can lead to neglecting personal needs and emotional struggles.
#childhood-trauma
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThe people who stay calm when everyone else panics aren't brave. They learned very early that someone in the room had to function, and their body volunteered before their mind had a choice. The cost shows up decades later in ways no one connects back to that original moment. - Silicon Canals
Childhood trauma physically alters immune and metabolic systems with measurable biological damage lasting decades, while children often develop crisis-management responses that exact long-term physiological costs.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThe people who stay calm when everyone else panics aren't brave. They learned very early that someone in the room had to function, and their body volunteered before their mind had a choice. The cost shows up decades later in ways no one connects back to that original moment. - Silicon Canals
Childhood trauma physically alters immune and metabolic systems with measurable biological damage lasting decades, while children often develop crisis-management responses that exact long-term physiological costs.
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Parenting
fromPsychology Today
6 days agoHealing From Our Trauma Helps Shape Future Generations
Healing breaks generational trauma patterns and transforms relational dynamics and biology.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology suggests the most reliable sign that someone had a difficult childhood isn't what they tell you about it - it's how startled they look when you are simply kind to them without a reason, as though kindness without a transaction attached is something the body recognizes as unusual before the mind has finished deciding what to do with it - Silicon Canals
Kindness can trigger confusion in those with a history of trauma due to learned survival responses from past experiences.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 week agoWhy Shame Is Central in Trauma
Shame is a central emotion in trauma, particularly interpersonal trauma, affecting healing and self-worth.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology suggests the most reliable sign that someone had a difficult childhood isn't what they tell you about it - it's how startled they look when you are simply kind to them without a reason, as though kindness without a transaction attached is something the body recognizes as unusual before the mind has finished deciding what to do with it - Silicon Canals
Kindness can trigger confusion in those with a history of trauma due to learned survival responses from past experiences.
fromTravel + Leisure
6 days agoHawaii Is Open for Travelers After Historic Storms-Here's How to Help Local Communities Recover
More than two trillion gallons of water-enough to fill three million Olympic-sized pools-fell across the state, marking the most severe storm conditions in nearly two decades.
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Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoNot everyone who chooses a partner with visible problems is making bad decisions. Some of them are choosing people whose damage is louder than their own, because as long as they're fixing someone else, nobody turns the spotlight around and asks what broke them. - Silicon Canals
People often choose partners with visible problems to avoid confronting their own internal issues.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoNot unique to war': millions of Americans suffer from moral injury. What's causing it?
Moral injury, recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, arises from actions contradicting deeply held beliefs, affecting mental health across various contexts.
Healthcare
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks agoBuilding a Therapeutic Revolution: Veterans Lead the Way
Therapeutic alliance—the collaborative bond between clinician and patient—extends beyond individual clinical encounters to systemic mental health care structures, particularly for treating complex conditions like PTSD and substance use disorders in veteran populations.
#empathy
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
5 days agoHow to Help Someone Have an Empathy Makeover
Empathy can be developed through structured reflection and practice, enhancing mental health and relationship dynamics.
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoPsychology
Research suggests people who feel more empathy for dogs than humans aren't broken - their empathy is fully intact, it's just been directed toward the only available recipient that has never weaponized it, and a person whose empathy has been weaponized enough times eventually stops handing it to anyone who could do it again - Silicon Canals
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoResearch suggests people who feel more empathy for dogs than humans aren't broken - their empathy is fully intact, it's just been directed toward the only available recipient that has never weaponized it, and a person whose empathy has been weaponized enough times eventually stops handing it to anyone who could do it again - Silicon Canals
Empathy can be selective, often directed more towards animals than humans due to psychological and biological factors.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks agoThe Overview Effect, Body Literacy, and Well-Being Skills
All humans share the same biological stress-response system, but lived experience shapes how individual nervous systems develop and respond to threats, and learning nervous system regulation can create perspective shifts similar to the Overview Effect.
Miscellaneous
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWar as a Psychological State
Authoritarian and narcissistic leaders share a fragile ego unable to tolerate challenge, causing them to experience political opposition as personal threat and deploy military as an extension of their distorted ego rather than as a policy tool.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks agoHow to Let Go of the Need to Say "I Told You So"
The urge to say 'I told you so' stems from unmet validation needs rather than genuine helpfulness, and resisting this impulse through the observing self demonstrates psychological maturity and protects relationships.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoTo live a normal life again, it's a dream come true': UK's first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma
When Storm Dennis hit the UK in 2020, a wall of dirty, frigid water from a tributary of the Taff threw Paul Thomas against the front of his house in the south Wales village of Ynysybwl. He managed to swim back into his home before the storm surge changed direction, almost carrying him out of the smashed-in front door. I was holding on to downpipes to stop myself being dragged out again.
Environment
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoWhen Everything Becomes "Trauma"
Psychological trauma, originating from the Greek word for 'wound,' evolved from describing physical injuries to mental wounds in the late 19th century, with usage tripling since the 1970s as the term expanded to encompass various difficult life experiences.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoHow to Help Communities Rebound from Crisis and Disaster
Disaster psychology provides an empirically-based framework for building community resilience and growth during crises through understanding predictable psychological phases and natural recovery mechanisms.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoNavigating the Messy Middle of Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery extends beyond the initial crisis phase; year two brings psychological challenges including chronic stress, financial strain, and bureaucratic delays that impair functioning and compound trauma.
fromPsychology Today
2 months agoCellular Memory, Trauma, and Fear
They are known, as it were, from the neck up. The cellular memory of facts and experiences, however, connects mind and body: My body recalls that showing my true feelings in childhood led to a put-down. A slammed door meant that Dad was home and drunk. The specific fact/event may be forgotten, but the bodily reaction remains: Any slamming noise may induce terror.
Mindfulness
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoThe hardest part of healing isn't facing what happened to you. It's grieving the version of yourself that had to exist because of it. - Silicon Canals
Therapy's hardest work involves grieving the adaptive self—the survival identity you constructed—rather than confronting initial trauma, requiring surrender rather than courage.
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoOn Helping Warriors Come Home
For many veterans, returning home marks not resolution but the beginning of a quieter struggle. Despite decades of innovation in trauma-focused therapies and medication, a substantial number continue to live with psychological injuries that existing treatments only partly address. Their trauma is not merely a cluster of symptoms; it is a disruption of identity, moral coherence, and belonging. It reflects lived experience often shaped by early adversity, military culture, and the potentially socially isolating aftermath of service.
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