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459: How to understand & heal your trauma | Gabor Maté, M.D.

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Breast Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis, and Depression

In 1870, the first person to describe multiple sclerosis said that this is a stress-caused condition. In 1890, the great Canadian physician, and one of the founders of Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, William Osler,. Sir William Osler, said that rheumatoid arthritis was a nervous system condition caused by worry and stress. There's been research on breast cancer, on multiple sclerosis, on remodaloid arthritis - repeated research that shows the relationship between emotions, difficult emotions, repressed emotions, and the onset of stress. And I quote some of that research in the myth of normal. Most physicians don't hear about it. The connection is very simple, very scientific,

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