What Is Trauma? Trauma occurs when a person experiences or witnesses a life-threatening event, serious injury, or sexual assault. It can also result from learning about or indirectly experiencing a traumatic event involving someone close to you. During trauma, the nervous system activates the fight, flight, or freeze response—also known he sympathetic nervous system. Trauma may result from a single event or from multiple experiences that accumulate over time. While trauma can

What Is Imposter Syndrome? Imposter syndrome is the belief that you are not good enough to be where you are, whether that's in your career, a social setting, or your family. You feel like an "imposter" in your role and fear that, at any moment, everyone around you will realize you don't deserve to be there. You may believe you've somehow fooled others into thinking you're more capable than you really are and that it's only a matter of time before you're "found out." In realit

Feeling tired all the time can be frustrating, especially when you're getting enough sleep. While medical conditions should always be ruled out by your healthcare provider, chronic fatigue is often connected to stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, burnout, or poor sleep. As a clinical psychologist, these are some of the most common psychological causes of persistent tiredness that I see. Can Poor Sleep Hygiene Make You Tired? The habits surrounding bedtime and sleep, often re