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Prevent and Treat Childhood Trauma #1000Speak for Compassion

[ted id=2194] Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or [...]

Kitt O'Malley2015-02-20T02:00:15-08:00February 20th, 2015|Categories: Compassion, Health, Mental Health|Tags: #1000speak, child abuse prevention, Child Welfare, Healthy Families America, Prevent Child Abuse America, PTSD, trauma|26 Comments

Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion
Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion

Bipolar Parenting, Compassion, Human Rights, Mental Health, Parenting

Childhood Trauma of Parental Mental Illness #1000Speak for Compassion

At the beginning of this week, Terezin - a woman who had been horrifically abused by a mother diagnosed with manic depressive psychosis - read my poem Suicide Infanticide and was understandably enraged. My poem described a fleeting [...]