Maintaining emotional and mental boundaries is crucial for caregivers to prevent vicarious trauma, which can lead to biological and behavioral changes, and increased rates of depression, suicidality, and substance use. — Whalespan
Maintaining emotional and mental boundaries is crucial for caregivers to prevent vicarious trauma, which can lead to biological and behavioral changes, and increased rates of depression, suicidality, and substance use.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“this is why people have post-trauma syndromes from vicarious trauma right I mean this absolutely happens the brain is changed there are biological changes behavioral changes and all of that trauma is vicarious and this is why we see the levels of depression and suicidality and substance uses higher in people who are giving care to others”