Overcoming Shock

When grief complicates and becomes pathological by virtue of its duration, intensity, or by bizarre or somatic manifestation, the psychiatric diagnosis of Complicated Bereavement or chronic grief is in order. This prolonged grief may occur due to the loss of a loved one when the nature of death is traumatic or unexpected and sudden. In children, the

Most people experience shock at one time or another in their life. And a great majority of people are in shock, in one form or another, on a daily basis.

Shock may begin early in life and then build up as life’s stresses increase, or it may result

We have read thousands of articles, studies and theories about the growing obesity problem in our country and many of them have some validity. But the one newly identified physiological cause is shock.

Shock is the physiological response to trauma in our lives

More and more Americans are realizing

People who are affected by shock in their lives often have survived traumas of various types. Many of the traumas we refer to in our case examples in our book