A Lonely Child Finds His Way Out of Abuse and Homelessness, It Lands Him Behind Bars [imprintnews.org]

@Wendy Stokesbary posted:

Dear Frank-

Your post about the DSM association caught my eye this morning. I am a psychotherapist in Iowa and have been trying for the past 13 years to unravel all of the associations related to ACES so that children can experience safety and security with their caretakers. I have heard of this book but haven't read it yet, so it's good to see a high light.

I agree with and have a like-minded interpretation of the issues as yourself.  It is lonely out here, being an aces prevention champion. And extremely challenging to build a collaborative community when each non-profit scrambles and competes for every crumb of the tiny grants the state puts out. This is particularly true now that Iowa has become majority red and the governor is a MAGA follower.

Thanks for your insights published here.

Wendy

Thank you; and I agree.

On a somewhat similar note, I don't believe it is just coincidental that the only two health professions’ appointments for which Canadians are fully covered by the public plan are the two readily pharmaceutical-prescribing psychiatry and general practitioner health professions.

Such non-Big-Pharma-profiting health specialists as counsellors, therapists and naturopaths (etcetera) are not covered at all.

Thus I get agitated when it's suggested or implied from within the media, however well-intentioned, to get therapy, as though it's reasonably readily financially accessible. Where I reside, it definitely is not: such psychotherapy averages $200-plus per hour.

Big Pharma greatly financially gains from the continual sedation and/or concealment of ACE-trauma's symptoms via tranquilizers and/or antidepressants.

I wouldn’t be surprised if industry representatives had a significant-enough say in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s original composition and continue to influence its revisions/updates.

From my understanding, only a small percentage of Canadian physicians currently are integrating ACE-trauma science into the diagnoses and (usually chemical) treatments of patients.

Dear Frank-

Your post about the DSM association caught my eye this morning. I am a psychotherapist in Iowa and have been trying for the past 13 years to unravel all of the associations related to ACES so that children can experience safety and security with their caretakers. I have heard of this book but haven't read it yet, so it's good to see a high light.

I agree with and have a like-minded interpretation of the issues as yourself.  It is lonely out here, being an aces prevention champion. And extremely challenging to build a collaborative community when each non-profit scrambles and competes for every crumb of the tiny grants the state puts out. This is particularly true now that Iowa has become majority red and the governor is a MAGA follower.

Thanks for your insights published here.

Wendy

“It has been said that if child abuse and neglect were to disappear today, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual would shrink to the size of a pamphlet in two generations, and the prisons would empty. Or, as Bernie Siegel, MD, puts it, quite simply, after half a century of practicing medicine, ‘I have become convinced that our number-one public health problem is our childhood’.”  

—Childhood Disrupted, pg.228

But then again, American prisons are very profitable for their private-sector CEOs and shareholders.