If trauma isn’t the event, the memory, or the reaction, what is it? Here's a clearer, more hopeful way to understand healing.

Life isn't always kind, leaving many of us carrying wounds that still ache when touched. Yet there's a profound difference between acknowledging pain and being defined by it. The following approaches ...

Since the 1980s, psychiatry has been dominated by what we might call a ‘disease‑entity’ model of mental health problems. In ...

Most people experience a traumatic event some time during their lives — losing a loved one, being the victim of violence or surviving a natural disaster. But what happens when the impact of trauma is ...

Learn what not to say to someone with PTSD. Show empathy and support with better communication strategies to aid healing and understanding.

The human visual system is a dominant part of the brain’s processes and navigation of the world. To better understand an aspect of this system, researchers from Drexel University’s College of Nursing ...

Endometriosis affects approximately one in ten individuals with female reproductive organs, causing excruciating pain and significantly diminishing quality of life. For many patients, the path to ...

As medicine advances and more children with complex needs live into adulthood, the need for compassionate, specialized care continues to grow. The Comfort Zone’s young adult pilot program focuses on ...

The strongest associations were seen for contact, emotional, physical, and sexual traumas. HealthDay News — Traumatic experiences are independently associated with endometriosis, according to a study ...

U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) reintroduced bipartisan legislation to increase support for children who have been exposed to Adverse ...

Endometriosis is a chronic and systemic inflammatory disease where uterine endometrial-like tissue grows outside the uterus. The most common symptom is debilitating pelvic pain before and during ...