Kudos to the speakers, incredible content and overview to help us understand our experiences, old memory networks and physiological response, and brain shifts.
3/ @docdanmd speaking now about the global pandemic r/t #COVID19 and how we are experiencing a sense of global trauma. So many losses like those of life, jobs, connection, experiences and it’s a shared experience regardless of geography as a shared exp.
4/ @LcswNidhi is the moderator and explaining the foundation of how our brain works during a trauma, the triggers like a ADT alarm system and how it perceives threats when something is not really going on.
5/ @LcswNidhi asks @OwenMuirMD discusses connection between trauma-substance abuse. Discusses secure attachment and insecure attachment, variation of #SDOH, adaptive system development. Trauma >substance abuse disorders, we are seeing worse exp w/trauma r/t the pandemic.
6/ @digitald0ctor discusses benefits of guided processes like motivational interviewing and help ppl living with trauma to potentially increase resilience. Q: As ppl develop resiliency, do they cope with trauma better?
6/ @CarleneMac discusses resilience and systems can support ppl’s routines to help ppl w/ #trauma. @docdanmd who works in ER shares pts presenting w/seizures r/t past traumatic exp. How do ppl reintegrate as it relates to their level of resilience and re-assimilate to society
7/ @happyheartmd shared exp. of giving CPR approx 20 yrs ago and how this exp. Stayed with him, this vicarious trauma stays with you, consider the trauma #nurses, #physicians, and others are living with r/t this chronic repeated stress, esp. BIPOC in relation to ongoing trauma.
8/ @LcswNidhi thanks for the great moderating “How Trauma Impacts the Brain & Body” tonight. WOW, the panelists were awesome and learned a great deal from @joinClubhouse tonight.
9/ great question tonight, what is the traumatic impact of long term racism? @LcswNidhi and @OwenMuirMD provided insightful responses, too deep for me to capture in a TWEET !
#reproethicsconf2021 keynote @DorothyERoberts
It is absolutely realistic to predict that women will be prosecuted and imprisoned for having abortions. It has!!
Harmful policies, happening in the US today, we need collective movements to support reproductive rights.
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Policies based on harmful ideologies that aim to “solve social problems”...targeting “at-risk” meaning Black, Latinx, poor communities
—-gotta listen to FULL presentation to gain understanding—— @DorothyERoberts
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In the US, the family policing system is not intended to gain insights for solutions to help families but causes further harm bc of our punitive system @DorothyERoberts