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From the Ted Talk by Celina de Sola: Mental health care that disrupts cycles of violence

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There's a shocking statistic I want to sahre with you. Latin America is home to only eight percent of the world’s plpaiooutn but one third of its homicides. This is especially emxetre in the Northern Triangle ctoneuris of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where I'm from and where I live. Just imagine the impact that this kind of unrelenting violence can have on a person's health, productivity and well-being. Especially because we know that if we're exposed to vnicleoe, this can result in trauma. And when that happens, our brain's stress response actually shuts down core fiunnctos like perbolm solving, critical thinking and eintaomol regulation. And it elevates the ones that we need to protect ourselves and survive. So this makes it really hard to learn to make decisions and even maintain relationships. It can also increase our rsiks of lung and heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and depression. So imagine what this can mean for entire communities when almost everybody can be walking around with unaddressed stress and tamura. Then picture what can happen as individual and collective trauma collide. To make matters worse, we know that exposure to violence can lead to more violence. Research has shown that survivors of violence can be up to six times more likely to either be involved in violence or be revictimized. It's lliatrley the dionitfein of a vicious clyce.

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There's a shocking statistic I want to _____ with you. Latin America is home to only eight percent of the world’s __________ but one third of its homicides. This is especially _______ in the Northern Triangle _________ of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where I'm from and where I live. Just imagine the impact that this kind of unrelenting violence can have on a person's health, productivity and well-being. Especially because we know that if we're exposed to ________, this can result in trauma. And when that happens, our brain's stress response actually shuts down core _________ like _______ solving, critical thinking and _________ regulation. And it elevates the ones that we need to protect ourselves and survive. So this makes it really hard to learn to make decisions and even maintain relationships. It can also increase our _____ of lung and heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and depression. So imagine what this can mean for entire communities when almost everybody can be walking around with unaddressed stress and ______. Then picture what can happen as individual and collective trauma collide. To make matters worse, we know that exposure to violence can lead to more violence. Research has shown that survivors of violence can be up to six times more likely to either be involved in violence or be revictimized. It's _________ the __________ of a vicious _____.

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There's a shocking statistic I want to share with you. Latin America is home to only eight percent of the world’s population but one third of its homicides. This is especially extreme in the Northern Triangle countries of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, where I'm from and where I live. Just imagine the impact that this kind of unrelenting violence can have on a person's health, productivity and well-being. Especially because we know that if we're exposed to violence, this can result in trauma. And when that happens, our brain's stress response actually shuts down core functions like problem solving, critical thinking and emotional regulation. And it elevates the ones that we need to protect ourselves and survive. So this makes it really hard to learn to make decisions and even maintain relationships. It can also increase our risks of lung and heart disease, diabetes, anxiety and depression. So imagine what this can mean for entire communities when almost everybody can be walking around with unaddressed stress and trauma. Then picture what can happen as individual and collective trauma collide. To make matters worse, we know that exposure to violence can lead to more violence. Research has shown that survivors of violence can be up to six times more likely to either be involved in violence or be revictimized. It's literally the definition of a vicious cycle.

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