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Pete Walker echoes what you said: “Renowned traumatologist, John Briere, is said to have quipped that if Complex PTSD were ever given its due – that is, if the

Pete Walker echoes what you said: “Renowned traumatologist, John Briere, is said to have quipped that if Complex PTSD were ever given its due – that is, if the role of dysfunctional parenting in adult psychological disorders was ever fully recognized, the DSM (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders used by all mental health professionals) would shrink to the size of a thin pamphlet.”. (http://www.pete-walker.com/fAQsComplexPTSD.html http://www.pete-walker.com/fAQsComplexPTSD.html) I take this as good news, also. CPTSD survivors need trust and safety over all other things, and properly-administered MDMA can be a shorter path to that.

novok 5y ago
There are a lot of mental disorders that are induced by neurological / physical things. I wish ADHD, ASD, Schizophrenia, SPD and more was just 'bad parenting'!!
- taurath 5y ago
  There are environmental potentiators for each one of those, as well as genetic or neurological markers. For example with schizophrenia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32890864/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32890864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234402/ ADHD: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28477799/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28477799/ So in some ways, this is your wish. Statistically, everything about many mental illnesses get worse in poor environments for children. There are many adults who might otherwise present with schizophrenia that don’t because they had a better environment. Early childhood emotional attachment types are also relatively predictive of symptomology and psychosis in schizophrenics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193730/#!po=1.35135 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193730/#!po=1.... It doesn’t invalidate the crux of your comment and I’m not attempting to say there are no neurological or genetic causes, but severity and prevalence would be categorically reduced in a world with better parental care.

novok 5y ago

There are a lot of mental disorders that are induced by neurological / physical things. I wish ADHD, ASD, Schizophrenia, SPD and more was just 'bad parenting'!!

taurath 5y ago
There are environmental potentiators for each one of those, as well as genetic or neurological markers. For example with schizophrenia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32890864/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32890864/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234402/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7234402/ ADHD: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28477799/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28477799/ So in some ways, this is your wish. Statistically, everything about many mental illnesses get worse in poor environments for children. There are many adults who might otherwise present with schizophrenia that don’t because they had a better environment. Early childhood emotional attachment types are also relatively predictive of symptomology and psychosis in schizophrenics https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193730/#!po=1.35135 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4193730/#!po=1.... It doesn’t invalidate the crux of your comment and I’m not attempting to say there are no neurological or genetic causes, but severity and prevalence would be categorically reduced in a world with better parental care.