mentalhealth - Yasemin Çakır

Why I’m Done Apologising for My Mental Health: A Manifesto for Radical Self-Acceptance

by Yasemin CakirMental Health October 12, 2024October 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

My personal journey with mental health first saw me pretending I didn’t have mental health problems and never bringing the subject up; to then only mentioning it to certain people I felt comfortable with, to shouting it from the rooftops and trying to educate everyone, to now reeling it back in and only mentioning it …

Psychedelic and Dissociative Therapies: A New Frontier for PTSD Treatment

by Yasemin CakirMental Health October 9, 2024October 9, 2024Comments are Disabled

Last year, I attended Product Earth, an expo event mainly focusing on natural wellness. From here on I gained valuable insight to the additional support that psychedelic options could provide, natural or synthetic and these emerging options are being researched to offer new hope for patients not responding to conventional approaches. With further research into …

Trauma-Informed Parenting

by Yasemin CakirMental Health October 7, 2024October 7, 2024Comments are Disabled

One of my biggest fears and triggers is how my young son will be impacted by my mental health crisis’. As what I would hope would be ‘all’ caregivers, I want only the best for my son and every action I take I try to think about what those words, those actions will mean to …

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Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CPTSD: The Brain’s Response Explained Through the Hand Model

by Yasemin CakirMental Health October 7, 2024October 7, 2024Comments are Disabled

On a quest to prove holistic treatments necessity in healthcare and understand more about my body and how to help it better, I have delved further into the body and how it changes and responds to Anxiety, Depression and CPTSD. Anxiety, Depression and Complex PTSD, also known as CPTSD are all interrelated conditions which I’ll …

My PTSD Journey: Trauma Stacking and the Trauma Tree

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 28, 2024September 28, 2024Comments are Disabled

In this blog I’m going to be covering two topics that I have gained further insight to via my trauma therapy group; trauma stacking and the trauma tree. I have decided to conduct more detailed research and share my anecdotes also. We have already discussed the ACE Study and I have mentioned that I have …

Cannabis and the ACE Study: Can Cannabinoids Mitigate the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma?

by Yasemin CakirSafe Sleep September 27, 2024September 27, 2024Comments are Disabled

Since delving deeper into mental health I have learnt more about the ECS (Endocannabinoid System), trauma and adversity and the ACE study, so why not combine these into one blog and discuss my anecdotes also? We know that the ECS is a cell-signalling system that regulates many aspects of the body from sleep to appetite, …

The ACE Study: How Childhood Trauma Affects Our Physical and Mental Health in Adulthood

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 26, 2024September 26, 2024Comments are Disabled

During the mid 1990’s, the MD of Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, a US based Health Maintenance Organisation Vincent J. Felitti and MD of the CDC Dr. Robert Anda conducted a study with over 17.000 patients for a two year period to delve into 8 different potential categories of childhood/household instability or abuse to view …

A Raw Look at My Current Fight for Mental Wellness

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 25, 2024September 25, 2024Comments are Disabled

Trigger Warning: This post discusses topics of mental health and suicide. If you are struggling with these issues, please reach out to a mental health professional or crisis hotline. Throughout the isolation of mental health struggles, this blog was written for myself… I cannot verbalise how lucky I feel that I am being given the …

How to Talk About Mental Health Without Stigma: A Guide for Friends, Family, and Healthcare Professionals

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 17, 2024September 17, 2024Comments are Disabled

Stigma around mental health is pervasive, even in environments that are meant to provide care and support. As a healthcare professional and a person who has struggled with mental health issues, I’ve seen first-hand how this stigma impacts individuals seeking help. Patients often whisper their symptoms, minimise their struggles, or hesitate, sometimes even avoid asking …

Can Cannabis Heal Trauma? – Understanding the Endocannabinoid System’s role in PTSD

by Yasemin CakirMedicinal Cannabis, Mental Health September 15, 2024September 15, 2024Comments are Disabled

In my previous blog, I covered the basics of the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) and highlighted its crucial role in regulating stress, mood, and emotional responses. Now, I want to dive deeper into a more specific topic: how trauma affects the ECS. The Link Between PTSD and the ECS Around a decade ago, research from NYU …

A Shift in Perspective: How Therapy and Holistic Care Changed My Mental Health Journey

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 12, 2024September 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Six months ago, if you had asked me about therapy, I would have told you it was useless. After years of trying everything from private counseling to CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) and DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), I had grown frustrated and skeptical. Medication was my lifeline, the one thing I believed kept me functioning. I …

Fighting for Help: How the NHS is Letting Down Mental Health Patients

by Yasemin CakirMental Health September 10, 2024September 10, 2024Comments are Disabled

Although I’ve worked in healthcare for a few years, my experience with the NHS has mostly been as a patient. I don’t use the services often—maybe once a year, if that, for something small like a throat infection when I need antibiotics. The only service I’ve ever truly needed has been for mental health support. …

The Evidence Based ABC’s of Safe Infant Sleep

by Yasemin CakirSafe Sleep September 9, 2024September 10, 2024Comments are Disabled

In other blogs, I have touched on mental health, including PPD/PPA, and also evidence-based safe infant sleep. I’ll be sharing my journey with early motherhood and how I managed my PPA mainly with evidence-based information regarding safe infant sleep and how to help prevent or lower the rates of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). As …