Posts Categorized: stress

A Witness To Trauma

“Can I get a witness? Can I get a witness?” – from the song, Some Kind of Wonderful There are many possible reasons why people who have experienced some form of traumatic event in their lives go on to develop some form of post-traumatic stress (with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder being at the extreme end of… Read more »

What is Addiction?

Addiction is in the news a lot these days, particularly if you live in Toronto as I do. In the last decade we have opened up the way we understand addiction – a term we used to reserve only for chemical substances – to include such non-chemical things as internet porn addiction, retail consumption, video… Read more »