Archive for August, 2010

Fearless Women Day

August 23rd, 2010

19th amendmentAt Mirasol we are looking forward celebrating Fearless Women Day on August 26! This is the 90th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment that gave women the right to vote. We celebrate this day in remembrance of the women who never had the right to vote, to own property, to earn equal wages, and among other things, the right to be heard!

We celebrate the women who, over the course of the last two centuries, struggled tirelessly so that we, as women, could enjoy those basic rights. They set an example of courage and resilience that, even 90 years later, still inspire women all over the world.

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Complex Trauma Increasing in Patients with Eating Disorders

August 9th, 2010

At Mirasol we have been seeing much more serious trauma in clients who are currently admitting for treatment. In fact, we’re seeing so much trauma that we’re having all clinicians trained in EMDR, one of the most effective trauma interventions. We want to make sure that all our clinicians have the best tools available for treating PTSD and early childhood trauma.

Along with Clinical Director Diane Ryan, we are reviewing any new information available in regards to trauma and its treatment. And we are finding out complex trauma or DESNOS (extreme stress not otherwise specified) is much more common than a diagnosis of simple PTSD.

PTSD was originally developed as a diagnosis in the 1970s to explain the symptomology of Vietnam veterans. Research has shown that men are traumatized most frequently by accidents, war, assaults, and natural disasters, single event occurrences. Women, on the other hand, are most frequently traumatized by childhood sexual abuse. B.A. van der Kolk (2005) reported that between 17 and 33% of women in the general population had histories of sexual-physical abuse while women in psychiatric treatment reported 35 to 50%.

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