Deandra Howard
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120 appearances
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first heard Aug 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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I mean, you're speaking to the fact that there are a lot that we don't even think about.
Yeah. Dr. I, you know, as you were talking about some cultural things, one of the One of the conversations that's happened a lot in my community is this issue around trauma and intergenerational trauma and cultural trauma. Is that something that... What are your thoughts? I mean, because I think a lot of people are using trauma as a catch-all for everything that's happening.
Is that something that you think is occurring as a result of the shutdown? Or is it just that people have decided, as you said, to just group everything as one thing?
You know what? I'm trying to figure out what I'm asking. And the reason why I'm saying that is. is because whenever I am in the community and I'm talking to people about always having these kinds of conversations like this, that word always comes up. I mean, it's kind of like a catch-all for many, many things. I'm not saying for everything.
but for many things in a way and why people are behaving in a way that they do, why people are responding to certain things. And so I'm just, we talk about mental health by populations. I'm just saying that this is a more common word now in my community than I've ever heard before.
Yeah, but the question is, what are we going to do about it? I mean, it seems like the conversation keeps coming up, well, we're traumatized, and so what are the ways in which to address this? It's really kind of, when we talk about these kinds of topics, people don't know how to articulate, is it a mental health issue? You know what I'm saying? So we're in that area of...
Okay.
You know, it's funny you're saying all these things because, you know, I'm not asking to be analyzed here, okay?
I just want to have this conversation, all right? But I remember things that happened to me before I was six, you know, that traumatized me. I mean, you know, I remember my fear of heights becoming very, when I was real young, I remember specifically, when I became very, very afraid of heights.
I remember very specifically when people, some of my relatives were playing with me about, and they stepped a pillow over my head and I remember not being able to breathe. And so it's been very, very, whenever I can't breathe, I freak out.
So I'm saying those kinds of things because I think that what you're saying is very helpful in the sense that we have these experiences that causes us to respond a certain kind of way. And other people might look at it and say, well, that's not okay, but it is our experience.
We started talking about age six. We started talking about the post-traumatic stress. And I think it's just important to have this kind of conversation so people can understand that it's not necessarily sometimes what they think it is. Oftentimes it isn't, yeah.
So can we talk about treatments? I mean, we talked a lot about mental health disorders and things like that. We talked about trauma, those kinds of things. How do we treat these issues once they are identified? Could you talk a little bit more about those things?
And it's interesting because I know Stan brought up the whole issue around shock therapy and stuff like that. I mean, it's just so many different things that are around this topic that I think is so interesting and so many different ways to address what's going on. I think in my case, you know, I'm thinking only about...
you know, mental health, we think about going, seeing the doctor and getting some meds. And that's just basically it. But I think that you're saying that there are other things like it could be a, you know, a genetic imbalance or whatever. So there's all these different ways in which to look at these things.
People need to, to not be fixed in terms of how things are going to work, but to open, you know, to different alternative, uh, uh, Am I correct?
Yeah, thank you, because I was going to say, I thank you for entering this conversation with us. I mean, it's been... There have been a lot of things that you said today that have really... been enlightening to me in terms of what we're really experiencing.
And saying you're absolutely right, I thought that the research that was done was phenomenal in terms of being able to understand this issue a little bit better. But the more you talk, Mike, the more I think we need to talk. about this. I mean, we need to enter this conversation because there's so many things that are going on.
And as Stan said a little bit earlier, is that it just seems like the issues are increasing and increasing. We don't have the necessary professionals to help. And so How do we enter this conversation? How do we chat about this in a way? And how do we give people the information that they need in order to make informed decisions? And that for us is really what's important.
So I really want to thank you for helping to kind of sort through something even for me today. And I'm sure that our listeners will get the benefit of that.
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