Robert C. Bransfield, MD, an internationally recognized psychiatrist and Lyme disease expert, recently published a review article, “Adverse Childhood Events, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Infectious Encephalopathies and Immune-Mediated Disease,” in the journal, Healthcare.
The article provides an overview and evidence of the compounding effects of childhood trauma and inflammatory-driven diseases like Lyme disease. It also offers up some treatment options to clinicians.
In his practice, Dr. Bransfield has observed that Lyme patients can develop Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from dealing with “an overwhelming illness and inadequate support or rejection from family, friends, employers, government agencies, health insurers, disability insurers, and others who fail the severity of the condition. This trauma combined with the physiological of the infection may intensify the co-existing PTSD.”
Dr. Bransfield, also a Clinical Associate Professor at Robert Wood Johnson UMDNJ Medical and at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, will be contributing several continuing education courses on the psychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease in the near future. Support Invisible's effort to launch a mental health education and support platform by making a gift here.
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