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Traumatology, what is trauma? Who gets PTSD and what steps large and small can you take to heal a heart in a brain?

So who is a good one? I got goosebumps both recording and writing it up, but first,

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Hey, get it? Everyone.

Okay, traumatology very much a noun very much a word. It's a discipline, but in researching this intro, I found out there are two kinds.

What? There's medical traumatology, which is surgical wound healing like after accidents or major injuries.

And then of course, there's psychological traumatology that researches and helps treat people who have witnessed or experienced distress.

So, traumatology either one comes from the Greek trauma that means wound or injury and the root for that word, just fun side note, meant to rub or twist or pierce

in the way that one would have an old creepy weapon. So trauma.

You know, after a series of episodes about toads and crickets, I just thought we should have a little gander at our squishy, but strong human minds.

And I was chatting with wonderful person and boyfriend, Jared Sleeper, who helps editologies and he's the host of the mental health podcast and make good bed brain.

And he suggested a friend of his and less than 24 hours later, I was headed to this doctor's cute cozy home.

There was a diploma on the bookcase, the smell of some freshly lit incense. He has beard and tattoos. He looks like someone who would open like a vintage motorcycle shop, but he's like, haha, surprise.

I'm a traumatologist. So he got a cup of coffee. We settled into some big comfy chairs to talk shop about clinical bummers, but had to help your brain cope with maybe what life has dealt you.

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