Dr. Sue Varma

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unPAUSED with Dr. Mary Claire Haver · Train Your Brain To Thrive Through Menopause · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

And so I'm meeting these folks and I've known what they have gone through, right?

And when we look at trauma and we look at the number of losses that you've had, so if you have lost your job, if you had health problems, and most of the patients coming in had multiple health problems.

So they were living down there.

There were folks who were involved with rescue and recovery.

So I treated first responders at that time.

We only had one program.

So I was treating both civilians.

and people who are working and living down there, and police, fire, firefighters, all of it.

And the more losses you had, so if you had asthma, you had GI problems, insomnia, PTSD, anxiety, domestic violence, substance abuse, job loss, financial loss, physical limbs lost, family members died, all of that just added to the level of stress.

And a lot of these people had prior history of trauma in their life.

Mm-hmm.

So we saw that women were more impacted than men.

Women are more likely two times or more likely to have PTSD.

And how you managed in the aftermath, what was the story you told yourself, that really had an impact.

So, so much of what I learned in meeting these patients, believe it or not, were not only the patients that I treated, but I think I learned more from the patients who never actually made it into our program.

So there were a group of patients who would get screened every year for anxiety, for depression, for PTSD, and they never met criteria.

So I was like, what is going on?

Who are these resilient folks that are so buoyant that like they went through one of the most devastating things?

Calamities in our history.

And yet they're smiling.

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