Michael Scheeringa, MD
@m_scheeringa
Child psychiatrist. Conservative. Chief Untangling Officer. Author of The Trouble With Trauma and The Body Does Not Keep the Score. Founder of Trauma Dispatch.
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“Self-inflation is the rule in life,” wrote Robert Trivers; hence his conclusion that we fool ourselves so as better to fool others. This explains a lot of why smart folks truly believe in toxic stress, ACEs, and complex PTSD despite the obvious lack of scientific evidence.
NEW Trauma Dispatch: Five years in, is California’s ACE program saving lives? Saving the world from swaths of lethal disease and mental disorders with a simple screening program remains a fantasy. Link to post: michaelscheeringa.com/trauma-dispatc… The ACE program was launched in Gavin…
Bears repeating as psychologists try to recast everyday slights of perceived discrimination as trauma:
Life-threat that is sudden and unexpected. It’s based on the type of event that can cause PTSD. It almost always creates a moment of panic and terror that one believes they, or a loved one, may die. It is not gray. You either have that moment of terror or you don’t.
New Trauma Dispatch: The CDC’s ACEs Experiment: When Public Health Becomes Social Engineering. A five-year, $29 million initiative to “prevent stressful life experiences,” untethered to scientific principles, was launched under Biden’s CDC led by Rochelle Walensky. Link to…
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While CRT and DEI are being purged from public schools, they still run rampant in academic psychology. A main problem is that there are simply very few conservative psychologists or psychiatrists to speak out.
NEW. My letter to the editor was published in Molecular Psychiatry, noting major flaws in a study which claimed that structural racism causes permanent brain damage. Chief among problems was that 55 out of 67 tests (82%) of their hypotheses were non-significant. Instead of…
New podcast! I break down my book The Body Does Not Keep the Score and tackle big truths about trauma that challenge the mainstream narrative. 🔥 Don’t miss this one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
New podcast is out where I discuss my book The Body Does Not Keep the Score, among other things related to trauma. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
The data being used to support the so-called child mental health crisis caused by social media contains seriously flawed self-report surveys. Haidt and colleagues either don’t know or don’t care how to interpret these studies.
Of the 268 studies Haidt cited in his two Google docs supporting his claim that social media is causing a crisis of anxiety and depression, 99% used SELF-REPORTS. Of the only two interview studies—the only two that ought to be trusted—both failed to support his claim.
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