May is Mental Health Awareness Month. As millions of Americans live with a mental illness, this month we want to encourage dialogue around the issue of mental illness and treatment. Some of the most common mental health conditions are bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, OCD and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to name a few.
Today let’s focus on trauma. In 2019, Harvard Women’s Health Watch reported the risk for mental and physical health problems from a past trauma goes up with the number of these events experienced.
But not all trauma is created equal.
Kansas City Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Nadirah Habeebullah of healinghertrauma.com gives us a mental health minute on how trauma – big or small – impacts our mental health.