Tag: mental health and african americans
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Invalidating Your Own or Someone Else’s Trauma: Do not do it
Before we talk about invalidating trauma, let us talk a bit about what trauma is. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) states that trauma is an event or circumstance that results in physical harm, emotional harm and/or life threatening harm that can negatively impact mental, physical, emotional health and social and spiritual…
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Traumatic Stress After a Natural Disaster
Expected responses to traumatic stress are discussed in the attached Psychology Today article. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/somatic-psychology/201004/the-trauma-arises-natural-disasters
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Too private and ‘invincible.’
When being too private and thinking you are invincible is like biting off your nose to spite your face.
