After your brain injury, have you felt scarred by the medical community?  Do you feel yourself pulling away from others, having intrusive thoughts, avoiding medical appointments, having increased anxiety about your health, or having trouble focusing on your appointments? You may be experiencing Medical PTSD.  

In today’s episode we have Emily Parks who is a patient advocate, behavioral health specialist, and founder of POP! Medical PTSD.   POP! provides a safe space to validate your experience and learn more about what others are doing to overcome medical PTSD.  Emily is groundbreaking in developing the definition of medical PTSD and increasing awareness that people can become traumatized by going through the healthcare system or by experiencing a medical event. She gives advice on communicating with healthcare providers and getting through trauma.  Listen today to learn more about this important topic!

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• POP! Medical PTSD and Emily Parks
• https://www.popmedicalptsd.org/
• Instagram: POP_medicalPTSD
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• NeuMind is looking to build a platform to support brain injury survivors and caregivers through rehabilitation.  They are looking for survivors and caregivers to give feedback.  Help them help others: neumind.co.uk/makingheadway
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