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Why Are Some Kids Amazingly Resilient?

Why Are Some Kids Amazingly Resilient?

by Alice Kenny | Dec 4, 2020 | ACEs, Complex PTSD Healing, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Eating Disorders and CPTSD, Guest Contributor, The Brain and CPTSD

(The article below is an excerpt from my book, Crazy Was All I Ever Knew: The Impact of Maternal Mental Illness on Kids. I have used a pseudonym to protect the privacy of family members.) Research shows that many children who experience adversity are amazingly...
When Kids Can’t Be Kids

When Kids Can’t Be Kids

by Alice Kenny | Nov 27, 2020 | ACEs, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Eating Disorders and CPTSD, Guest Contributor

Most kids of parents with a mental illness experience childhood differently and less innocently than other children as they deal with their often chaotic home lives and navigate their worlds. If you are the son or daughter of a parent with a mental illness, and you...
Starving: Anorexia at 14

Starving: Anorexia at 14

by Alice Kenny | Aug 13, 2020 | ACEs, CPTSD Survivor Stories, Eating Disorders and CPTSD, Guest Contributor

  (The article below is an excerpt from my book, Crazy Was All I Ever Knew: The Impact of Maternal Mental Illness on Kids. I have used a pseudonym to protect the privacy of family members.) It’s not as if you wake up one day and say, “I’m going to be anorexic....
Eating Disorders are Not Just for Women

Eating Disorders are Not Just for Women

by Shirley Davis | Feb 24, 2020 | Eating Disorders and CPTSD

Society has stereotypically viewed eating disorders as only affecting teenage girls and women. However, one in three people who form an eating disorder (ED) is boys or men. This article will examine how EDs affect male victims and how they can defeat these...
The Research on the Causes of Eating Disorders.

The Research on the Causes of Eating Disorders.

by Shirley Davis | Feb 20, 2020 | CPTSD Research, Eating Disorders and CPTSD

In piece two of the series on eating disorders, we have already explored how dopamine and serotonin play vital roles in influencing eating disorders. In this article, we’re going to take a closer examination of what happens in the brains of those who live with the...
The Health Consequences of Eating Disorders.

The Health Consequences of Eating Disorders.

by Shirley Davis | Feb 13, 2020 | Eating Disorders and CPTSD

Eating disorders (EDs) are insidiously destroying some lives and greatly restricting others. However, eating in secret and feeling guilt are not the only consequences of having an eating disorder. There is a myriad of other health problems that develop as a result. In...
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