Mental Health
How Does Socialising Help Us Avoid Threat?
Our social relationships play a huge role in our mental health, physical health, and mortality risk. As human beings, we have evolved to thrive in
28th May 2021
Our social relationships play a huge role in our mental health, physical health, and mortality risk. As human beings, we have evolved to thrive in
Trauma can have a lasting, destructive impact on a child’s life. Traumatic events in childhood, which could range from sexual abuse to abandonment to the
Though all of us will experience a traumatic event at some point in our lives, many people recover soon after the traumatic event has passed.
Parental divorce is a potentially traumatic event in a child’s life. Trauma is anything that overwhelms the psyche and has a lasting negative impact on
From the moment we are born, we learn to relate to ourselves, others, and the world around us through our relationship with our primary caregiver(s),
Cybertrauma is a relatively new type of trauma. There is still much research needed on the topic, such as how to treat and prevent it.
The Fight and Flight response is part of our everyday understanding of our reaction to threat. However, even though common amongst our vocabulary, it is
We are all familiar with the automatic survival actions of fight or flight. However, there is a third, equally common response, which is not so
When we experience a traumatic event, it impacts both the emotional and physical state of a person. If we encounter a threat, our nervous system