Reminds me of Dr. Burke Harris in her Ted Talk: We're not dealing with it in the health care sector because it's too close to home.
I know when I first started my ACEs Awareness campaign here in Nova Scotia the resistance I received from "the establishment" was strong and still is for the most part.
My argument for offering my personal experiences with ACEs was that by doing so I could help "the affected" relax a little during the self-reflection process, because I model a shame free perspective.
In the end my approach has been for the most part rejected for 4 years, and yet the effect of implementing #TraumaInformedCare across institutions has still not reached into the hearts of the health care providers in my region.
The stories that continue to come out in the news about patient - both adult and child - treatment in our health care system is to a huge extent inhumane. And of course our government enables all that.
And yet these numbers you are sharing here are not surprising to me, but the affected are still in denial, and still not actually getting the concept of #TraumaInformed
So thank you for this information and the conversation. The data exists, even if many of us have know the reality for a long time.
I always marvel at how tenacious humans are to try every circumnavigation possible to deal with issues before finally having the courage to call a thing a thing and face it head on and deal with it well. I guess that's part of our evolution, but it's still frustrating as we see more and more people continuing to be hurt, when we could have stopped this years ago.
Thanks for all your work.
In solidarity,
Elizabeth Perry