It is estimated that 60 percent of men, and 50 percent of women, will experience a trauma at some point in their life. More than 10 percent of those people will experience post-traumatic stress disorder — PTSD — a debilitating psychiatric disorder characterized by depression, fits of rage, and flashbacks. If that doesn’t sound like […]
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Resiliency Training (Part 4): Military Healthcare Professionals and Home Care Givers Struggling with Compassion Fatigue
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Welcome to part four of my short series on mental resiliency and compassion fatigue. This will be the last installment in this series, but before we get started, let’s just do a quick recap of what’s been discussed so far. Please, if you have not read the first three parts, make sure you read them […]
Resiliency Training (Part 2): The Resilient Mind vs. the Fragile Mind
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Last week we talked about compassion fatigue – secondary traumatic stress disorder – and touched briefly on how it plays into mental resiliency. This week we are going to talk all about resilience, and the difference between people with resilient minds – those who bounce back from emotional adversity quickly – and people with fragile […]
Resiliency Training (Part 1): What is Compassion Fatigue?
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Military
Today’s post is the first part of a short series I’m beginning on the subject of building up your own mental resiliency. Before I really delve into the nuts and bolts of this subject, I want to spend some time just talking about compassion fatigue – what it is, how it ties into mental resiliency, […]