Thank you You are so right about everything you have said here I married a person with narcissistic personality disorder for 40years and our home was very chaotic my 3 children all developed autoimmune diseases After my ex discarded me 5years ago my research made me realize why i stayed for 40years in the abusive relationship and this was because of my own childhood traumas I researched my ex's childhood and he had traumas These findings are important to find answers in order to heal ACEs is a Public health issue and so important for all of us to be aware of and deal with As I say wars are fought by unhappy children so in order to minimize world unhappiness relationship breakdowns etc We must not ignore this Thanks again
I refused anti psychotic drugs from a psychiatrist. At my first appointment with her at 10am. In the.morning, she was smelling of alcohol. She was advising me that my claims of trauma were delusional as maybe expected for psychosis. I decided she was delusional so I refused anti osychotic drugs and continued to recover memories of trauma, away from my ab users. It was very painful and lonely, but I do not have metabolic syndrome or obesity, and I'm very clear I experienced severe trauma. As you said we have to get on with dealing with our traumatic illness, and not listen to those who say we made it all up.
People can also be religiously traumatised by parents and parental figures. This can be through warnings about eternal damnation if you do not follow a very specific path in life. I think it could count as an ACE but it could also happen in adolescence or later. It happened to me and the result was devastating though I have taken steps to slowly but surely reverse it through the use of various podcasts and coaxing myself in a loving way to see things from all sorts of different perspectives. Rather like a cubist artist will draw a three dimensional object from different perspectives on the same piece of paper. And also researching all sort of religious beliefs as well as the ones you have encountered so far in life. Therefore mental health professionals including clinical psychologists do need to address and question people about their religious beliefs and what, if anything, they think might happen to them when they die.
There is a fundamental problem here that will not go away unless it is addressed. I like many people am in favour of democracy not because I think it is a uniquely good system but rather because it is the least bad system. The other options in other words are even worse. One of the problems with democracy can be short termism and the emphasis on winning elections quite possibly with short term gimmicks rather than people in power focusing on what is necessary for the long term good of the country. Why go from some long term policy and goal if the results really start showing when another leader is in power? And yet a really good mental health policy that is based around stopping people becoming ill and traumatised in the first place would have to be a very long term vision with long term structure and practical application. It would also of course cost a lot of money. But if we are focusing on money it would also in the long term save even more money In our democracy many people now talk the talk about mental health but far fewer are prepared to walk the walk. The walk is very long term and will be for a time be very costly. Also many political figures simply do not understand the issues. When Ann Widdicombe heard that Megan Markle was feeling suicidal she said "Ha! She should live in an impoverished African village for a month if she really wants to have something to feel suicidal about" The problem is some people admire this type of ignorant rubbish about the nature of suicidal ideation. Trauma and deep depression have no respect for how fat your wallet is. We need real experts in charge - not jobbing MP's. There needs to be a committee of very experienced people from the mental health professions and also from social services who will advise on a long term mental health strategy about prevention rather than cure completely regardless of which leader or government is in charge. This would not be a perfect solution. It would though be a step in the right direction. If a government wants to limit or stop what this committee is advising then they will have to be called to parliament to explain in detail their reasons for doing so in a transparent way that can be reported in the media. We need to think long term on mental health and we need policy decided by people who know about it. Michael Gove once said "I think we have all had enough of what the experts have to say". As far as I am concerned he should bloody well grow up.
Thank you
You are so right about everything you have said here
I married a person with narcissistic personality disorder for 40years and our home was very chaotic my 3 children all developed autoimmune diseases
After my ex discarded me 5years ago my research made me realize why i stayed for 40years in the abusive relationship and this was because of my own childhood traumas
I researched my ex's childhood and he had traumas
These findings are important to find answers in order to heal
ACEs
is a Public health issue and so important for all of us to be aware of and deal with
As I say wars are fought by unhappy children so in order to minimize world unhappiness relationship breakdowns etc We must not ignore this
Thanks again
I refused anti psychotic drugs from a psychiatrist. At my first appointment with her at 10am. In the.morning, she was smelling of alcohol. She was advising me that my claims of trauma were delusional as maybe expected for psychosis. I decided she was delusional so I refused anti osychotic drugs and continued to recover memories of trauma, away from my ab users. It was very painful and lonely, but I do not have metabolic syndrome or obesity, and I'm very clear I experienced severe trauma. As you said we have to get on with dealing with our traumatic illness, and not listen to those who say we made it all up.
People can also be religiously traumatised by parents and parental figures. This can be through warnings about eternal damnation if you do not follow a very specific path in life. I think it could count as an ACE but it could also happen in adolescence or later. It happened to me and the result was devastating though I have taken steps to slowly but surely reverse it through the use of various podcasts and coaxing myself in a loving way to see things from all sorts of different perspectives. Rather like a cubist artist will draw a three dimensional object from different perspectives on the same piece of paper. And also researching all sort of religious beliefs as well as the ones you have encountered so far in life. Therefore mental health professionals including clinical psychologists do need to address and question people about their religious beliefs and what, if anything, they think might happen to them when they die.
There is a fundamental problem here that will not go away unless it is addressed.
I like many people am in favour of democracy not because I think it is a uniquely good system but rather because it is the least bad system. The other options in other words are even worse.
One of the problems with democracy can be short termism and the emphasis on winning elections quite possibly with short term gimmicks rather than people in power focusing on what is necessary for the long term good of the country. Why go from some long term policy and goal if the results really start showing when another leader is in power?
And yet a really good mental health policy that is based around stopping people becoming ill and traumatised in the first place would have to be a very long term vision with long term structure and practical application. It would also of course cost a lot of money. But if we are focusing on money it would also in the long term save even more money
In our democracy many people now talk the talk about mental health but far fewer are prepared to walk the walk. The walk is very long term and will be for a time be very costly. Also many political figures simply do not understand the issues. When Ann Widdicombe heard that Megan Markle was feeling suicidal she said "Ha! She should live in an impoverished African village for a month if she really wants to have something to feel suicidal about" The problem is some people admire this type of ignorant rubbish about the nature of suicidal ideation. Trauma and deep depression have no respect for how fat your wallet is.
We need real experts in charge - not jobbing MP's. There needs to be a committee of very experienced people from the mental health professions and also from social services who will advise on a long term mental health strategy about prevention rather than cure completely regardless of which leader or government is in charge.
This would not be a perfect solution. It would though be a step in the right direction. If a government wants to limit or stop what this committee is advising then they will have to be called to parliament to explain in detail their reasons for doing so in a transparent way that can be reported in the media.
We need to think long term on mental health and we need policy decided by people who know about it. Michael Gove once said "I think we have all had enough of what the experts have to say". As far as I am concerned he should bloody well grow up.