The Effect of Trauma on the Mind

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Shame as a fairly common human experience, I don't know when you would think that it begins. It's effect literally is to disintegrate the function of the mind. We are giving our mind this responsibility to somehow have to manage all of this affect in ways that it is not able to do. And unfortunately we meet people in states of distress when they're going through anxiety and depression.

Scholars, journalists, practitioners, and other thought leaders all agree — we’re facing a loneliness epidemic that’s as grave a threat to public health as obesity or substance abuse. Where do we go from here?

In this Forum from 2019 at the University of Minnesota, psychiatrist Curt Thompson discusses human flourishing and community. When it comes to mental health, he says, don’t go it alone.

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