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It seems we agree on all the important facts. You have an issue with van der Kolk, but I cannot comment on that, having never read "The Body Keeps the Score".
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
It seems we agree on all the important facts. You have an issue with
van der Kolk, but I cannot comment on that, having never read "The
Body Keeps the Score".
Gabor Mate, who I have read, does mention numerous occurrences in his
career as MD where people had told him that making links between
trauma and, for example auto-immune diseases, was "career suicide".
Not sure what you make of that.
- ants_everywhere 3y agoOh gotcha, sounds good. I am not familiar with Gabor Mate, but it depends on what his theory was. Wikipedia tells me he considers ADHD to be a coping mechanism. So for example if he had a theory that trauma can cause things like ADHD, then I'd say I don't think that particular theory seems to be supported by the evidence. But it doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility to me that two seemingly unrelated complicated things can be linked. It's possible that he got that advice because he felt he was onto a grand theory and the evidence wasn't there for it. Or whatever, who knows. It's possible there is something to say about anxiety/cortisol/stress, neurodivergence, gut micro-biomes, and some autoimmune diseases like type 1 diabetes. There are studies on all of this stuff, but it's all in early stages, we don't know if the statistical effects are even real. And we certainly have no reason to conclude that one set of effects would cause the other.