When the body says no - Gabor Mate

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I've just started this and already I am hooked. It's linking poor health outcomes from traumatised childhoods to adult poor health. Something we 'knew' already but now I really know it.

It's not written like an academic book, it's quite conversational in tone, but full of case studies and references (but the references are at the end of the chapter rather than in the text).

Really recommend it for anyone with a high ACEs score or who works in the field.

That sounds interesting, I was told when diagnosed with CFS (since added fibromyalgia) that my childhood left me vulnerable to it.

Really interesting. I've just read about MS and ASL and autoimmune disease with chronic stress. I have struggled with codependency since childhood and the case studies are all codependent women so far

Gabor Mate has made a film called the Wisdom of trauma you can watch it by giving a donation

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He's done quite a lot of podcasts too that are very listenable.

I've had this on my "to read" list for ages, so very interested in the reviews here 🙂

I listened to the audiobook of this recently and found it very interesting. I listened to his episodes on Dr Chatterjee's podcast too (Feel Better Live More). I have some adverse childhood events (divorce, domestic abuse, dm left family home) which I feel have contributed to my developing MS. After reading the book I believe that it's not so much the events themselves that lead to illness but the constant stress of re-living them, ruminating, feeling insecure and worrying you're not good enough etc. I was doing this for years. It's so important to process and deal with emotions around adverse events as soon as possible.

I can't undo the damage done but I hope I can stop any further effects. I now practice mindfulness and deliberately stop myself ruminating, and have mentally forgiven my parents and myself. It's an ongoing process.