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Chronic Childhood Trauma

12 Tuesday Sep 2017

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My class curriculum includes considerable time spent on trauma-informed care and helping my prospective adoptive families succeed in parenting children who have suffered abuse or neglect. I use the example of a Bear in the Woods (at the 8-minute mark in this Ted Talk video on Childhood Trauma by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris).

Significant damage to the emotional and physical health of children who are exposed to high levels of adversity/trauma occurs over time (chronic trauma). They are more likely to engage in high-risk behavior, and to develop heart disease or cancer. Our brains have a stress response system, in the hypothalamic and adrenal glands, that governs our fight or flight response in a situation. Imagine you’re walking in the forest and you see a bear. Immediately, your brain sends a response to your adrenal glands: Release stress hormones! Adrenal! Cortisol! Your heart starts to pound, your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from that bear! And that is wonderful, if you are in the forest, with a bear. The problem is what happens when the bear comes home every night, in the form of domestic violence, or physical abuse, or molestation. This system is activated over and over and over again, and it goes from being life-saving to health damaging. Children are especially sensitive to this repeated stress-activation, because their brains and bodies are just developing. High doses of adversity affect their brain structure and function, their developing immune systems and hormonal systems.

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A Beautiful Woman, Beaten and Choked

25 Friday Jul 2014

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She Photographed Herself Everyday For A Year. This just looked like another one of those videos where someone takes a picture of themselves every day of the year, but by the end you realize it was something much different.

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Ray Rice: Punk-Ass Bitch

21 Friday Feb 2014

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Here is Ray Rice dragging his unconscious girlfriend out of a casino elevator and then dropping her on the floor. She’s not drunk, he punched her, knocking her out. Raven’s coach John Harbaugh and GM Ozzie Newsome have spoken out in support of Mr. Rice…they need to shut up. It’s a sad day if the Ravens or the NFL don’t suspend him for at least a year.

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