Eight lessons to help you break the [wounds + unawareness] cycle
	Research Summaries Supporting Premises in this Web Site By Peter K. Gerlach, MSW Member NSRC Experts Council

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        This is an index to research summaries that support key premises in this Website. From 30 years' clinical observation and research, I propose that many or most U.S. adults and kids are stressed by a  toxic inherited cycle of [unawareness + psychological wounds.] I further proposes that...

• most personal, family, and social stressors like obesity, depression, homelessness, crime, abuse, divorce, abortions, gangs, and addictions and some (many?) illnesses are promoted by this cycle.

• unintended child neglect by wounded, unaware parents promotes psychological wounds in young kids; and...

• one of six epidemic psychological wounds is reality distortion - e.g. minimizing and denying. The wounded, unaware American public needs to deny epidemic ineffective parenting and its wide-spread toxic effects, so there is no call for...

  • research to validate this cycle and its personal and social effects and costs, or...

  • meaningful legislation to (a) educate parents on the cycle and to (b) regulate childcare and reduce neglect.

        The independent research summaries below validate many of these premises, and demon-strate the current inability of respectable researchers and the media to understand and accept the cycle and its toxic impacts on persons, families, and our society. All summaries are taken verbatim from Ya-hoo online news digests, which reache millions of people globally.

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Recent Research Summaries 

        The summaries are grouped by seven educational self-study lessons in this site.

LESSONS 1, 5, and 6 - Wounds, Families, and Parenting

        These reports support the premise that the unseen [wounds + unawareness] cycle is spreading and degrading the wholistic health of typical families and societies.

Low-nurturance Families / Grown Wounded Children (GWCs)

• Personality set for life by 1st grade

• NIMH report that US "mental health disorders" are increasing and more costly

• UCLA study on kids from "risky families"

• Summary reports on (a) maternal bonding and (b) its effects on later relationships

• Report on "the Roots of Empathy"

• Stress in Womb Can Alter Life Later

• 2006 CDC findings about abuse and neglect of US infants 

• U.S. parents' baby knowledge lacking, study finds

• Swedish research: the effects of divorce on kids

• Canadian research: child abuse and neglect changes young brains and promotes later suicide

• Most "mental illness" starts by age 14 (Opinion: "mental illness" = false-self wounds)

• Almost half of Americans aged 19 - 25 have "psychiatric problems"

• Two research summaries on teen depression

• More U.S. kids use psychotropic medications than German or Dutch kids

• Swedish research: childhood autism linked to parental mental illness

• Report on "nudging' people to make more "rational" decisions

Excessive Shame and Related Self-neglect

• Widespread US self-neglect 

• Self-esteem can be "fragile"

• Proposed reasons for keeping "bad habits" despite "knowing better"

• U.S. men's poor health 

• Widespread binge eating in America

• Male eating disorders

• Opinion: Fat and Happy - Why Americans Don't Diet

• Americans not getting enough sleep, causing physical and mental problems (self neglect)

Self-medication of Inner Pain (wounds)

• Serious increases in US overweight and obesity

• Emotionally distressed people have a harder time losing weight 

• Widespread U.S. "mind wandering" (false-self dominance and "fuzzy thinking"

• Parents need to teach grade-school kids to avoid alcohol 

• Alcoholism damages female brains faster than male brains

• Statistics on US Kids who live with an addicted parent

Excessive Emotions

• Serious health risks of chronic anxiety in men.

• Anger and depression may promote heart disease and sudden failure

Media Unawareness

• Opinion - 8 Toxic Personalities to Avoid

Wound Reduction (Recovery)

• Talk therapy can be as effective as drugs

LESSON 2 - Learn to think and communicate effectively

        In several years' of science-news watching, I have never found a meaningful research report on this vital topic. Implications (a) researchers don't see communication as an important topic, and/or (b) media science writers and editors don't see value in reporting such research.

        Perspective: Over 80% of site visitors who respond to this poll say they are "extremely interested" in learning to communicate more effectively. Does that describe you?

LESSON 3 - Evolve a pro-grief family

• The health hazards of incomplete ("complicated") grief

• The value of describing feelings (like grief-related sadness and anger)

• Grief: The Price of Love - by Meredith F. Small,

• The Health Benefits of Tears - by Dr. Judith Orloff

LESSON 4 - Choose and evolve high-nurturance relationships

• Divorce Hurts Health Even After Remarriage

• British research: unmarried families break up more often

• Declining U.S. divorce trends

• Traits of divorcing Australian couples / US government program supports marriage

• U.S. marriage is less about raising kids now

• An example of misguided marital advice in the media

• Another example: "Love is not enough."

• Another example: "Prenuptial Cohabiting Can Spoil Marriage"

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        Pause and notice what your subselves are saying now. Did you get what you needed from reading this article? If not, what do you need? Who's answering these questions - your wise true Self, or "some-one else"?

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