Change Your Brain Every Day Dr. Gabor Maté: This Is What a Doctor Wants You To Know About Past Emotional Trauma
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Oct 20, 2025 
Dr. Gabor Maté, a world-renowned physician and bestselling author, uncovers the myths surrounding trauma and health. He argues that what society considers 'normal' often isn't healthy. Gabor explains how emotional pain manifests in physical illness, emphasizing that depression and anxiety should be seen through the lens of childhood experiences. He discusses the critical role of empathy in medicine and highlights how stress affects biological aging. The conversation challenges conventional views on addiction, suggesting it's rooted in unhealed emotional pain.
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The Myth Of Normal
- “Normal” often means common, not healthy, and society confuses familiarity with wellbeing.
- Some conditions may be normal responses to abnormal circumstances rather than individual defects.
Start By Listening And Connecting
- Begin healing by listening and connecting to understand what happened in a person's life.
- Use empathy to make sense of their experience before labeling it a disease.
Stress Shows Up In Telomeres
- Telomere length reflects biological aging and shortens with chronic stress, visible even after one year of medical training.
- Social stressors like racism produce measurable telomere shortening across populations.
