Tag: trauma

Circumcision Permanently Alters the Brain

I have gone through a range of emotions , after discovering this .

I asked questions, and saw the results with our eldest son, who did experience pain, after being told by pediatrician, that he would not feel a thing .

THE SCIENCE IS IN: The data indicated that circumcision affected most intensely the portions of the victim’s brain associated with reasoning, perception and emotions. Follow up tests on the infant one day, one week and one month after the surgery indicated that the child’s brain never returned to its baseline configuration. In other words, the evidence generated by this research indicated that the brain of the circumcised infant was permanently changed by the surgery.

Circumcision Permanently Alters the Brain

Focusing on Trauma and Involving Families in Care Could Help Prevent Early Death – Mad In America

Lived-experience researchers: Focusing on trauma-informed care and involving families in treatment could help reduce early death.
— Read on www.madinamerica.com/2023/11/trauma-families-prevent-early-death/

Depression shows – Sad no one acknowledged this for Vincent

A diffident look 🖼️ During July 1889, Vincent suffered a severe psychotic episode – and this portrait is the only one that he painted during a psychosis.

Van Gogh’s expression is lifeless and depressed, emphasized by the brown-green paint of the work. Van Gogh painted himself as a mentally ill person, characterized by his diffident, sideways glance, which is often seen in people suffering from depression or a psychosis.

Knowing the state Vincent was in when he painted this self-portrait, does it change the experience you have when looking at it?

‘Self-Portrait’, 1889. In the collection of Nasjonalmuseet

Starry Starry Night, by Don Mc Lean

https://youtu.be/oxHnRfhDmrk?si=SsF1VfW-QUf2sBiG