Deniss Pleiner, M.A.

You notice yourself repeating the same patterns as your parents—the ones you swore you'd never repeat. You carry anxiety, shame, or survival strategies that don't even feel like yours. This is intergenerational trauma: pain, beliefs, and coping mechanisms passed down through families, often without anyone realizing it. Intergenerational trauma creates effects that get transmitted across generations through parenting, family dynamics, beliefs, and even nervous system responses. Your...

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Health anxiety (sometimes called hypochondria or illness anxiety) is the constant fear that something is seriously wrong with your body. A headache becomes a brain tumor. Fatigue means a terminal illness. You Google symptoms obsessively, seek reassurance from doctors repeatedly, or avoid medical care entirely out of fear of what you'll find. What health anxiety actually is: Excessive worry about having or developing a serious illness, despite medical reassurance. You might constantly check...