Approach to Therapy

Oxidative Stress

Stress Genes

Epigenetics of iPTS

Asset vs Liability

Inheritance of Oxidative Stress

Dan Mitchell

Noah Patterson

Tess Anderson

Approach to Therapy

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Stress Loading (allostasis)

The information on these pages describes the scientific and empirical evidence that supports MTN's approaches. This page illustrates the impact of a significant traumatic event on both the person-level and the genetic level. It forms the underlying evidence that a significant trauma in one generation can be passed onto another.

This first graphic illustrates the average mood patterns of a person without a pre-existing history of traumatic stress. We might refer to this as a "normal" person with "normal mood patterns.

Note how the periods of euphoria and depression (sadness) may be socially understood to be outside the boundaries of socially decreed "normal" behaviour. If the person had, for example, won gold lotto, their thoughts and behaviours might well be socially deemed as abnormal.

Likewise if they were just informed they had lost their job, been diagnosed with a terminal illness, or lost a loved one.

This graphic illustrates how the person changes with the onset of the impacts of traumatic stress. They continue to demonstrate a pre-trauma emotional threshold that complies with social conventions of "normal" thoughts and behaviours.

It shows how this threshold becomes significantly limited after the traumatic event and the duration of problematic responses (depression, mania, suicide ideation) are longer.

Therefore their ability to manage their problematic responses are limited post-trauma.

This graphic illustrates the mood patterns of a person born with the genetic consequences of traumatic stress. It shows how the person faces the social decree of "normal" with their genetic limitations.

These genetic limitations forge differences in neuro-anatomy, immunology, endocrinology and epidemiology of people and families with histories of significant traumatic stress.

This difference is either misunderstood or not even in the scope of most medical and mental health diagnoses. Therefore the patient/client is at risk of being mistreated and harmed further.