by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2019 | Cancer Support, Health Anxiety, Trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD)
The Brain still offers the scientific and medical communities tremendous opportunity for discovery. Resulting from studies such as the groundbreaking Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Study*, scientists are still learning about how life events...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Sep 1, 2018 | Cancer Support
If you were to research cancer, you would be given a lot of statistics, medical jargon and all sorts of cases and treatment options. Stephen J Gould’s essay, The Median Isn’t the Message, which he wrote shortly after his diagnosis and takes a look at cancer statistics...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jun 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR, Health Anxiety, Trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD)
This pilot study examined the effects of EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder in cancer patients in the follow-up phase of the disease. The study also aimed to examine whether EMDR treatment has a different impact on PTSD in...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR, Health Anxiety, Trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD)
The exposure to a life-threatening disease such as cancer may constitute a traumatic experience that in some cases may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, several studies investigated this syndrome in patients with cancer,...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jan 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, Health Anxiety, Trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD)
We have all heard that stress predisposes us to illness. But how does stress really increase our susceptibility to illness? The body is built with homeostatic mechanisms to protect it from diseases and it keeps a close surveillance to keep itself safe and healthy. The...
