Wellness Wednesday: How trauma leads to pain, mental health concerns, and sleep problems

Trauma and sleep problems go hand in hand in a culture where violence is common and victims suffer in silence out of fear.

This free webinar covers topics that are compelling and relevant to so many of today’s social issues. Useful for anyone who has suffered trauma (sexual assault victims, combat veterans, accident victims, people in recovery from heart attacks, witnesses to violent crimes, natural disaster victims, etc.) who is struggling to achieve good sleep.

[March 15, 2018 || SAMHSA]

Science of Sleep: The Intersection of Chronic Pain, Serious Mental Illness, and Trauma on Sleep

“In addition to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, people who experience trauma are at risk of experiencing a range of mental health problems, such as depression, suicidal thoughts and attempts, alcohol and substance abuse, disordered eating…and disrupted sleep.”

Check out 12 previous posts from SHC that focus on trauma-related sleeplessness:

• Sleep Fundamentals || T is for the Three P Model (for insomnia) [July 8, 2018]
• Sleep News Special Report || Veterans Day Edition: Our vets need their sleep! [November 11, 2017]
• Surviving Harvey: Nobody actually sleeps through a hurricane [August 30, 2017]
• #ICYMI: April’s survey of sleep and the 4 Ms: mind, mental, memory, and mood [May 16, 2017]
• Sleep News Monthly || April 2018 Special Edition: Ideas and Solutions for Sleeping in Times of Chaos & Anxiety [April 28, 2018]
• Sleep News Monthly || April 2018 Special Edition: Sleeping in Times of Chaos & Anxiety [April 27, 2018]
• Paradox: Trauma requires sleep to heal, but people with trauma can’t sleep [April 6, 2017]
• Want to survive post-election anxiety? Get some sleep! [December 9, 2016]
• Ken Scholes on sleeping and PTSD [October 24, 2014]
• Safe sleeping with PTSD [October 20, 2014]
• Sleep Disorders 101: Night Terrors [October 11, 2014]
• The very real fear factor of PTSD-troubled sleep following heart attacks [October 8, 2014]