Can you overdose without taking any drugs?

In today's episode I discuss endogenous opioid release, the fight/flight/freeze response, the effects of childhood trauma, naloxone and much more.
I specifically answer the titular question of this video, exploring whether the body can release sufficient naturally occurring chemicals to elicit an overdose-like response. I was inspired to create this video after reading Dr Bruce Perry and Maia Svalavitz's book "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog".
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Perry, B. D., & Szalavitz, M. (2006). The boy who was raised as a dog and other stories from a child psychiatrist's notebook: What traumatized children can teach us about loss, love, and healing. Basic Books.

[@bernadettemckeown7291]

Thanks again Pat for a very interesting episode! You and your viewers may enjoy Brenë Brown's Ted Talks on: "Vulnerability" and "Listening to Shame" both of which I found excellent and well worth watching.

[@PatsPsychologyMSc]

Thanks Bernadette, I most certainly will check out Brenë's work!

[@harveyjumper]

Fantastic review, Pat. Wholeheartedly agree on with your take on the false dichotomy between the brain and body! Goddamn Cartesian dualism- I'd be really happy if there was a societal movement to acknowledge that people's heads are indeed connected to their bodies at some point soon. Your thoughts on post-traumatic shame align with with mine to some extent; it seems to be a feature which modulates the intolerability of chaos (or, in religio-philosophical terms, theodicy). Eg., if I can exert some agency within this horrific event, I don't have to live with the uncertainty of overwhelming harm happening at completely random times to innocent people. Like most post-traumatic sequelae, this once-adaptive response constellates into a maladaptive one in becoming "I am (to some extent) responsible for the trauma I suffered," which, in my clinical experience, often remains the most damaging legacy of the trauma.

[@PatsPsychologyMSc]

Thank you Carrie! It was your comment from last week that inspired me to share my thoughts. Also, it's really great to get your hands-on perspective. Thank you so much for sharing.
It's such a challenging framing that has to be deeply painful for trauma victims. Are there approaches you use in your work that you find particularly effective at addressing the experience of shame that trauma victims feel?

[@harveyjumper]

I personally have had less success with cognitive methods than with "bottom-up" approaches, like EMDR or IFS or AEDP. Regardless of the modality though, it is often long and difficult work to wrestle with those negative schemas. Ultimately, I don't think it's possible for a survivor of trauma to hear too many times the phrases "I believe you" and "it's not your fault."

[@PatsPsychologyMSc]

@@harveyjumper very interesting Carrie, I'm actually not very familiar with those approaches. I must brush up on them!
It certainly stands to reason that such compassionate, and indeed truthful phrases prove to be so helpful. In many regards, I would go as far as to extend that mindset when considering perpetrators of trauma. Would you share this compassionate view towards people who have committed atrocities?