Psychological trauma is bad for your health. The stress of abuse, violence, or the unexpected death of a loved one can cause all sorts of health problems. People suffering after these events may stop ...

Trauma differs for everyone — it's caused by varying events or experiences one has gone through — and there are instances where it may progress into post-traumatic stress disorder. Licensed mental ...

Yannick Thoraval is a member of the National Tertiary Education Union. Yannick Thoraval and Jill Parris also worked together on the project, Home Truths: An Anthology of Refugee and Migrant Writing.

Even as we inoculate our bodies and seemingly move out of the pandemic, psychologically we are still moving through it. We owe it to ourselves — and our coworkers — to make space for processing this ...

“I want to use your work, D,” a good friend who teaches high school English — I’ll call her Vee — told me at a mixer, in front of a couple of artists we hang out with. “But it is triggering. It’s so ...

Four of the women who took part in the "Close to Home" memoirs project, including Jennifer McCall, left. (Courtesy Crittenton Women's Union/Richard Howard Photography) For many people who've endured ...

Columnist Diane Cameron has authored three books. Her most recent publication dealt with her stepfather's traumatic military history. Even as a young child, Diane Cameron knew that newspapers and the ...

Over the last year, Maryland psychotherapist Kerry Malawista noticed frontline health care workers struggling with what she called "the ghosts of the COVID deaths they carry." Borrowing the expression ...

Hours after submitting to my editor my draft of a long, reported magazine feature about my alma mater’s campus rape problem, I woke up screaming from a horrifying dream about being drugged and raped.